Senior Associate, HR Project & Process Optimization, Corporate Human Resources, Remote

Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.

As a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.

Join our team and create your future.

As the Senior Associate, HR Project and Process Optimization, you support the design, documentation, and implementation of optimized HR projects, workflows, and systems. Leveraging lean principles, project management, value stream mapping techniques, and an understanding of Workday’s process architecture, you will enable a better employee experience by improving efficiency, scalability, and improved work placement across global HR operations. Further you will work with our HR Centers of Excellences as the project manager of specific initiatives, supporting the end-to-end deployment of new and updated programs and process. This role requires a keen collaborator with strong skills in project management, workflow design, process transformation, HR systems, and change management to successfully enable essential end-to-end improvements for the function’s top priorities.

Key Duties: 

• Support development and execution of HR Workflow Transformation Roadmap: Based on each year’s priorities, you will be an integral part of the team that designs an annual and ongoing prioritized plan for to address and sequence essential HR processes, applying lean process management principles to minimize inefficiencies and enhance productivity. 

• Optimize HR process workflows: Partner with cross-functional team members to map, document, and streamline workflows, ensuring work movement across the function is clear and a seamless integration with global HR systems and technologies. 

• Create, and maintain, HR project and process documentation: Maintain a library housing all HR process and practice documentation to ensure current, up-to-date materials are available for all team members, leveraging standard templates. 

• Develops project plans and implementation strategies in collaboration w/ SMEs to execute sustainable/repeatable/ and one-time projects. 

• Prioritizes and manages multiple HR projects from start to finish, ensuring they align with organizational goals, including planning, execution, and monitoring HR initiatives, focusing on improving HR effectiveness and delivering projects on time, within budget, and to specifications.  

• Provides project planning, milestone management, scope management, and resource forecasting, monitoring the projects from initiation through delivery. 

• Value stream mapping: Conduct the visualization of end-to-end HR processes, identifying opportunities to eliminate unnecessary actions and improve efficiency. 

• Process documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive process maps, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and user guides to ensure consistent execution and