Job Description
Job Description
Title: HR Project/Change Manager
Location: New York, NY 10010 - Hybrid
Duration: 9 months with potential for extension
Must-Have Skills / Experience:
- Project Management (3–5 years): Status reports, workplans, trackers
- Excel Proficiency: Strong knowledge; VLOOKUP and pivot tables preferred
- Adaptability: Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines
Overview
- We are seeking an HR Project Management Lead to provide structured, strategic support across critical HR workstreams—Compensation, Benefits, Change Management, and HRIS.
- Investments HR Project Management Lead Total Rewards, Change Management & HR Workstreams
- This role acts as an integrator and executional engine for the HR project portfolio, ensuring alignment, momentum, and confidence for HR leaders. The ideal candidate blends strategic insight with hands-on delivery, driving key activities and enabling clarity across teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Program Coordination & Governance Support
- Partner with HR leaders on planning, scheduling, and monitoring activities
- Maintain project documentation, timelines, risk logs, and dashboards
- Support governance routines: steering committees, working sessions, cross-functional checkpoints
Total Rewards Workstream Support:
- Coordinate Compensation & Benefits workstreams, ensuring milestones are met
- Support benefit plan implementation (NYL technology, HRIS, vendors: Alight & Empower)
- Assist with analytics, documentation, design sessions, leadership reviews, and communications
- Identify process gaps and support timely resolution
Change Management Support:
- Build and execute change deliverables: stakeholder assessments, communication plans, training, readiness checks
- Support Change Management lead with inputs, materials, and adoption tracking
- Maintain alignment across HR, Communications, and business areas
HR Transformation & HRIS Cutover Support:
- Coordinate activities for MacKay Shields HRIS cutover (workshops, deliverables, requirements, documentation)
- Act as connector across HRIS, HR partners, technology, and business stakeholders
- Support testing, data readiness, and issue tracking
Strategic & Operational Support:
- Translate leadership directives into actionable workplans and updates
- Identify risks, dependencies, and optimization opportunities
- Take a hands-on approach to execution, ensuring efficiency
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication:
- Facilitate communication across HR, Finance, Technology, and business teams
- Prepare agendas, summaries, and presentation materials
- Support escalation processes with timely, accurate information
- Build trust-based partnerships through proactive engagement
Qualifications:
- 3–5+ years in program/project management or coordination roles
- Experience with Total Rewards, HRIS implementations, or large-scale HR initiatives (preferred)
- Familiarity with change management practices (PROSCI, ADKAR) a plus
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with composure
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable blending strat egic support with hands-on execution
Success Profile:
- Collaborative Partner: Builds alignment across diverse groups
- Operational Backbone: Brings structure and disciplined follow-through
- People-Centered Communicator: Creates clarity through empathetic engagement
- Execution-Focused: Drives progress with persistence and accuracy
- Forward-Looking Supporter: Anticipates needs, mitigates risks, enables informed decisions
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