Sr Dir, HR Ops Strategy

The Sr. Director, HR Operations Strategy is a people leader reporting to the VP, HR Transformation & Operations. This leader / do-er role delivers financial management, resource alignment, and project management. The role is also responsible for building and managing communications, developing business cases, and driving culture and employee engagement.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Financial Management & Resource Alignment

• Manage annual operating budget for HR Operations, managing all costs and proactively allocating funding to highest impact areas. Partner with Finance on all forecasts, actuals, and invoice mgmt.
• Partner with functional leaders and HRBPs to manage HR Ops Org Structure as it evolves to meet business needs, including roles, levels, and locations. Allocate budget accordingly and approve recruiting HC requests.
• Manage the monthly finance cycle for reviewing and updating HR Ops budget covering internal costs and vendor costs. Investigate discrepancies as needed.
• Build and manage budget models for HR Transformation projects accounting for spend amount, timing, resourcing, savings, and ROI.
• Partner with Finance, Strategy, and Business Owners to plan, deliver, and manage Business Cases.
• Bring a critical eye to planning assumptions and calculations to validate Business Case justifications, costs, and anticipated savings.
• Keep a keen eye on costs, maximizing our ability to deliver to our clients while staying in budget.

Project Manager

• Translate strategy into concrete work plans to accomplish desired objectives.
• Use project management methodologies to deliver a broad range of special projects and key strategic initiatives across HR Operations.
• Gather relevant statistical information and conduct analyses that provide useful insights for a wide variety of project topics and to drive informed decision-making.
• Monitor and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of department’s operations and infrastructure, to include service delivery methods and procedures; administrative and support systems; and internal reporting relationships. Identify opportunities for improvement and direct the implementation of changes.
• Continually assess the department’s long-term vision and short-term initiatives to ensure alignment with the organization’s mission and goals.
• Function as thought partner to the VP and HR Ops leadership team on both strategic and tactical matters as needed.

Communications, Culture, and Engagement

• Deliver assigned workstreams within functionally owned projects, often including org structure, comms, and change management.
• Package materials from functionally owned projects and BAU work into executive summary decks for Sr. Leadership. Translate in-the-weeds details from SMEs into high-level storyboards, knowing when to leverage and how to best visually represent data in slides.