HR Strategy & Project Manager

This is Adyen 

 

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Facebook, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

HR Strategy & Program Manager as an HR Strategy & Project Manager with Adyen, you will help identify opportunities for improvement and will plan, lead, and manage projects that significantly grow our capacity, efficiency, and effectiveness in HR that support the long term growth plans of the HR team and Adyen as a whole. The scope of the role is both global and cross-functional and you will have three main areas of focus.

Firstly, you will play a key role in helping & facilitating the process for the global people leadership team (PLT) to develop strategy and run their annual planning process. As part of that, you will need to develop strong connections with the central strategy team, all of the HR & People teams and key cross-functional teams to connect the dots across company-wide plans. You will also support the global PLT to identify roadblocks or accelerators throughout the year to ensure speedy execution and maximise impact.

Secondly, you will be responsible for project managing a few key people programs that span across multiple HR teams and helping bring a level of needed rigour to those to drive speed of quality execution.

Thirdly, being an expert in project management, you will help support HR & People teams running smaller projects on the best approaches and resources to utilise so as to drive consistency in how people projects are managed. Here you are intended to be a coach and guide to bring up the overall project management quality and approach across the function. In this role, you are comfortable switching between being a facilitator and being a hands-on owner of operational execution, and you are genuinely excited to do whatever it takes to get things done.

What you’ll do:

• Facilitate and continuously refine the strategy development & annual planning process and methodology with the global PLT
• Launch, manage, and complete HR-related projects to boost HR effectiveness in an organisation
• This requires complete project management experience from project scoping through to execution and after action reviews
• Collaborate with the HR functions globally to sharpen their planning and tracking mechanism in ways that create a healthy balance between providing structure and direction while keeping flexibility and speed
• Manage special HR wide projects that don’t have a clear owner with one of the HR functions
• Be an ambassador for initiating and embedding data-driven ways of working Role will work closely with the global strategy & execution team to align HR priorities with the wider company objectives

Who you are:

• You have 5+ years of experience in managing projects or programs, (strategy) consulting
• You are comfortable navigating complexity; ideally in a product/ tech context; and/ or you have been part of a rapidly growing company
• You have a natural curiosity that allows you to tackle difficult questions with enthusiasm
• You are an experienced problem solver who enjoys breaking down complex challenges into actionable solutions - and you embrace the hands-on implementation of those
• You are highly execution-driven: you apply your strategic perspective, connect the dots but also translate ideas into action tomorrow
• You have excellent people and relationship building skills that allow you to influence and collaborate with both senior stakeholders and colleagues across all levels of the company
• You are a strong team player and enjoy driving success collaboratively with others
• You have a strong affinity for numbers and live by an analytical approach in how you approach broad questions, plan execution and track impact
• Preferably you have had exposure and experience working with HR & People teams or projects

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