Staff HR & Transformation Program Manager

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Summary:

The HR and Transformation Program Manager is responsible for driving People Operations, HR Systems, and Transformation initiatives cross-functionally at Torc. This role requires frequent engagement with stakeholders across People Operations/HR and Transformation to align on the work and resolve or drive resolution of issues and risks. The role requires a high degree of skilled stakeholder engagement across all disciplines and levels of the organization, including frequent communication with leaders up to and including the C-suite. This role requires high judgement, capable of making independent decisions with little direction. This person should be a self-starter, curious, creative, solution-oriented, unafraid of ambiguity and able to work collaboratively across all levels of the organization to solve problems and drive clarity, learn and adapt from failure, and be motivated to tackle new topics and challenges.

What you'll be doing:

• Leads cross-functional teams to scope complex initiatives, across human resources departments.
• Lead complex, highly-coupled Transformation initiatives.
• Drive the organization to successfully achieve program objectives and measures of success.
• Clearly articulate status of program assignments through frequent updates, dashboards, and metrics.
• Identify, map, track, and drive dependencies and risks to resolution.
• Identify and drive process improvements for process issues impacting the program(s).
• Analyzes product milestones and ensures cross-functional work is planned and if approved, executed in-order-to meet objectives.
• Ensures clear understanding of dependencies between and across organizations at Torc.
• Identifies and mitigates risks, issues, and opportunities toward program success.
• Identifies and supports development of standards and processes to enable successful completion of programs.
• Monitors progress of program assignments against program objectives, communicating issues, risks, and mitigation plans with key stakeholders.
• Defines and reports on key performance metrics to communicate status and issues including the creation of dashboards.
• Engages all appropriate stakeholders to ensure all departments are focused on the highest priority business needs.
• Works collaboratively across program management, technical program management, and product management teams to ensure a strong partnership.
• Independent preparation and post-processing of meetings and workshops including organization, moderation, decision tracking, documentation of outcomes, as well as follow-up on actions.
• Frequent writing of business narratives, status updates, and scoping documents.
• Regular communication of program status, risks, and schedule updates to senior leadership, up to and including the executive leadership team, as well as out to a broad set of organization-wide stakeholders.
• Supports requests for engineering support for product demonstrations to ensure scope, requirements, and priorities are clear, and key stakeholders, and dependencies, are identified, communicated, and managed.
• Sufficient technical depth to lead project scoping, understand internal dependencies, conduct cost estimation on programs
• Mentors and guides more junior team members

What you will need to be successful:

• Demonstrates competences and program management proficiencies typically acquired through BS+ 6+ years of experience, MS+ 3+ years of experience, or PHD 1+ years of experience.
• Requires transportation to locations away from the site. Valid US Driver’s license with a safe driving record required. May travel occasionally to other sites. May have the opportunity for international travel, as required
• Experience driving People Operations, HR Systems, and Transformation initiatives cross-functionally 
• Experience 
• Considered highly skilled and proficient in discipline; conducts complex, important work under minimal supervision and with wide latitude for independent judgment

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