The HR Project Manager - Talent Acquisition Operations leads and drives strategic, cross-functional initiatives that improve the effectiveness, scalability, and performance of the Talent Acquisition (TA) function. This role will own end-to-end project lifecycle management and deliver measurable business outcomes aligned with enterprise priorities. This position sits within the HR Strategic Project Management function and is matrixed to provide dedicated support to the Talent Acquisition (TA) organization. While the scope spans broad HR priorities—including process, policy, systems, compliance, training, and operational readiness—a primary focus of this role is partnering closely with TA leaders and stakeholders to execute high-impact initiatives that enhance recruiting practices, tools, and workflows. The Project Manager influences stakeholders at multiple levels, proactively identifies opportunities for innovation and simplification, and drives adoption of sustainable operating models. This role is well-suited for a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment, learns quickly, and brings a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to ambiguity and change.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare for and facilitate regular HR project team meetings to drive action towards our critical deliverable dates.
- Create and manage a project plan to track key integration activities, draw attention to at-risk functions, and ensure key dates are achieved.
- Coordinate key issues between teams/subject matter experts to facilitate discussion and decision making.
- Review and edit all HR-related project communications and presentations.
- Present HR status updates, key decisions, and risks to the respective project teams and steering committee, if applicable.
- Work on issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.
- Receive assignments in the form of objectives and determine how to use resources to meet schedules and goals.
- Serve as a primary project point of contact for HR and TA stakeholders; assess needs, align priorities, and translate strategic objectives into executable project plans.
- Build and maintain strong partnerships across HR Centers of Excellence and enabling functions, including HRIS, Compliance, Compensation, Training/L&D, Operations, Finance, and IT.
- Support Talent Acquisition focused initiatives such as recruiting process improvements, requisition-to-hire workflow enhancements, onboarding readiness, sourcing enablement, and recruiting tool or system implementations.
- Partner effectively with HR systems and recruiting technology teams by leveraging technical acumen and understanding system configuration and build concepts to facilitate requirements gathering, testing, and deployment.
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years of experience
