Project Manager

Skills

Description

This role will be supporting multiple projects in the HR space. The new candidate must have strong foundational PM skills, as well as very strong soft skills and relationship building skills. They need to be a partner, but not get pulled into the HR world too deeply. They need to take ownership of the project activities and drive the projects.

Prior experience with HR projects and Workday required. They MUST be local and be able to go onsite as needed. Engagement and on-site presence are absolutely critical for this role. This would be a 6-month initial contract, with potential to extend.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing the complete life cycle of highly complex internal projects, including approval, planning, execution, and closeout to ensure planned results are achieved on time and budget
• Develop comprehensive schedule and drives progress to plan, proactively managing changes.
• Work with vendors and team to establish and achieve project goals.
• Identify projects issues, gaps, conflicts, and propose solutions.
• Track critical project deliverables with core team and facilitate solutions when issues arise
• Work as the liaison between clients, business leads, functional leads, SME’s(subject matter experts), application analysts, developers and other technical team members to assist and document solutions to complex business problems
• Address problems through risk management and contingency planning and presents solutions and/or options to executive management. Ensures effective implementation of solutions/changes
• Facilitate and lead large project meetings to drive delivery.