HR Project Manager

RaceTrac Company Overview

Job Description:

The HR Project Manager ensures the success of multiple high-impact HR initiatives through collaborating with HR Centers of Expertise, managing the complete project management lifecycle for various projects and managing stakeholder relationships. This individual supports strategic projects from initiation to project closure by creating solutions, facilitating decisions, driving project governance, and delivering work that meets the outcomes expected by stakeholders and the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Supports the entire project management lifecycle of multiple moderately complex initiatives simultaneously, from initiation through completion.

• Acts as thought partner alongside Stakeholders and HR Centers of Expertise to provide recommendations, identify risks and dependencies, offer solutions, and drive strategy. 

• Liaises between decision maker(s), program owner(s), and impacted stakeholders. Partners with them to define and communicate roles, project goals, expectations and measures of success.

• Obtains business requirements from internal customers, defines scope, develops implementation plans, manages budgets and timelines, ensures appropriate documentation, and supports the entire project lifecycle through the transition to the business owner(s).

• Communicates project status, manages escalations, and directs decision-making processes, ensuring executive leadership, steering committees, program owners, and other stakeholders have appropriate level of information and agency.

• Develops and maintains strong relationships with vendors and stakeholders, proactively identifying and resolving conflicts, ensuring timely and effective resolution. 

• Continuously works with a critical eye to seek creative solutions and opportunities for process improvement.  

• Administers team logistics, including but not limited to team meetings, conference calls, meeting minutes, action items, and basic follow up items.

• Creates, tracks, and adjusts project budgets to ensure projects are completed within financial parameters.

• Carries out project support functions as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
• 4+ years of project management experience
• Strong collaborative mindset with enthusiasm to drive stakeholder engagement and accomplish and exceed objectives
• Responsive, resourceful, flexible and proactive, with a focus on execution and delivery
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Learning agility and proven analytical decision-making experience
• Comfortable pushing back when necessary and leading crucial conversations
• Effective negotiator with the ability to influence others and manage complexity and ambiguity
• Navigates dependencies between cross-functional teams and organizational priorities to optimize the critical path and mitigate risks
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, proficiency in Excel, Visio, and preferred.
• Proficiency in project management software, specifically SmartSheet preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading enterprise-wide HR projects.
• Experience using HR metrics to inform decision-making.
• Experience leading change management and organizational transformation initiatives.
• PMP or other relevant certification is a plus.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment with RaceTrac without regard to their race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.