Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bright Horizons is a leading education and care company that helps employees thrive at work and at home by partnering with employers to offer high-quality child care, elder care, and educational support. The Senior HR Project Manager will lead key HR initiatives, working closely with stakeholders and the HR Leadership Team to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Responsibilities
- Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation. Project Manager will be expected to manage multiple projects in any given period with varying teams, and with varying domains, lengths, and complexities. Responsible for adjusting project plan and internal & external team expectations based on shifting priorities when required
- Lead the implementation of cross-functional HR projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including vendors, to gather requirements, provide updates, and address concerns. Demonstrated follow-through and accountability with the project team towards achieving key milestones and making critical business decisions that align with the company’s strategic goals. Deliver engaging, informative, well-organized presentations that are effectively tailored to the intended audience
- Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies with senior members of the project team to ensure project success
- Strong leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, and communication skills, with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization, including senior executive level. Guide stakeholders, SMEs and project teams during times of ambiguity to assist them in reaching consensus or decision on the go-forward approach
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, project artifacts. status reports, and post-project evaluations with strong attention to detail
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices in HR project management
- Partner with SMEs to ensure the best practices of change management and communication are embedded into projects. Adjust communication strategy and approach of team to match the needs of specific business groups, individuals and partners and ensure that all materials created for communicating and facilitating discussion of intended approach are carefully tailored to the intended audience to ensure that business owners can give complete and accurate feedback
- Act as a coach to motivate and mentor project teams to achieve set objectives. Indirectly partner with, coach, mentor and provide guidance to junior level project managers
- Support knowledge sharing within and across projects
- Serve as a communication bridge between business leaders and developers to facilitate understanding of initial requirements, questions and changes across these groups. Ensure that feedback from key business owners is fully acknowledged and incorporated into functional specifications, process flow diagrams and project plans to give business leaders the confidence that they are being heard and that their needs will be met
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Business, HR, IT, or related field
- 5 additional years of related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
- 5+ years of experience as a project manager
- 1 years' experience managing and leading HR & HR Technology projects
- PMP Certification
- Hands-on experience managing projects for ERP and/or HR systems implementation
- Proven strategic mindset with the ability to look beyond immediate priorities and develop forward-thinking solutions and plans
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid vacation, sick, holiday, and parental bonding leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Money-saving discounts and financial planning tools
- Tuition assistance and education coaching
- Caregiving support and resources for the children and adults in your family
- Up to: 9 paid holidays annually; 40 hours of sick time per year based on full-time schedule, and 120 hours of vacation time per year
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