Assignment description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead a strategic HR capability transformation.

The project aims to globalize and streamline HR capabilities and processes, transition towards strategic global solutions and decommission existing systems, while ensuring continuity of critical HR services. As Senior Project Manager, you will lead several interconnected workstreams, align business and technology, manage dependencies and constructively challenge plans and deliverables to ensure quality, pace and productivity.

In this role, you will coordinate the project across multiple workstreams and drive the transition from existing solutions to the target landscape. You will develop and maintain the overall roadmap, priorities, milestones, dependencies and delivery plan, while setting clear expectations for stream leads and ensuring clear ownership within each stream.

You will identify cross-stream dependencies, risks and blockers, drive decisions and resolution, and support the transition towards global and streamlined HR capabilities and processes, including implementation, migration and decommissioning. The role also includes ownership of the project’s change management and communication strategy, with responsibility for stakeholder engagement, communication, organizational readiness and adoption.

You will guide and support Change & Communication resources in executing the strategy, while providing direction and challenging approaches and outputs when needed. You will also ensure appropriate planning for data, integrations, testing, cutover, business continuity and transition to BAU.

The role includes maintaining effective governance, providing clear reporting and decision support to the project sponsor and steering committee, and driving collaboration across HR, IT, Enterprise Architecture, global functions, vendors and other stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• You have significant experience leading large-scale business and technology transformation programs.
• You have experience from at least two comparable transformations involving enterprise system implementation, migration and/or decommissioning at scale.
• You have a strong background in both project and program management, including leadership across multiple workstreams.
• You are experienced in process standardization, globalization or capability transformation within complex organizations.
• You have experience developing and evaluating business cases, and translating business needs into clear scope, priorities and decisions.
• You have strong experience developing and leading change management and communication strategies within large-scale transformation programs.
• You have experience with HR systems, particularly HRIS, and a good understanding of HR processes, payroll, data and integrations.
• You are experienced in change management, including stakeholder engagement, organizational readiness, adoption and transition.
• You have sufficient technical understanding to engage with and constructively challenge architects and specialists.
• You are able to lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct line-management authority, with an empathetic leadership style that combines structure, accountability and culture.
• You are quick to understand complex environments, get up to speed and create clarity and momentum.

Meriting:

• Experience with global HR transformation, SAP SuccessFactors or similar HR platforms, payroll and time management, complex integrations, legacy-system decommissioning and large international organisations is considered an advantage.