Manager, HR Project Management

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, and they are seeking a Manager for their HR Project Management Office. This role is responsible for leading large-scale HR projects, managing risks, and ensuring timely delivery while overseeing a team of project management professionals.

Responsibilities:

• 35% - People Leadership - Attracts, retains, and develops top talent. Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports
• 15% - Portfolio & Stakeholder Management - Fosters and maintains strategic internal business partner relationships. Oversight, influence, and guidance of OneHR Project management and reporting for operational, product/business, technology, and business stakeholders. Supports Senior Manager and team as a point of escalation to ensure OneHR Project Management governance and prioritization processes are followed. Partners with leadership to prioritize and execute projects based on the organization's strategic needs
• 50% - Project Control & Execution - Awareness of overall change management needs, processes, and practices. Collaborates with change management practitioners across programs, projects and initiatives. Applies and guides team members on Project Management best practices. Collaborates with leaders to create standards and processes that increase business value. Supports and executes against quarterly planning and prioritization. Applies lessons learned to inform future initiatives. Sets outcome-focused goals and ensures accountability to deliver on commitments. Scope typically includes execution and/or supporting team of large, complex projects across matrix organization. Leads team through issue / obstacle resolution in order to maintain team momentum and productivity. Ability to communicate and negotiate across the organization. Seeks to understand stakeholder perspective and apply it to project delivery. Guides project team to develop their communication plan and stakeholder approach. Works with stakeholders to support the project planning effort, including the formulation of the project scope, definition of the project deliverables and the required delivery dates, creation of a logical work breakdown structure, definition of major project milestones, and creation of the project charter. Understands organizational/initiative goals and guide team members to align processes and project work. Proactively identifies barriers and partners with leadership to mitigate them. Facilitates collaboration and advances work across multiple domains and complex initiatives, tracking actions and decisions. Works with stakeholders to determine and align dependencies, then proactively risk and issues via identification and mitigation plans

Requirements:

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
• 6 years of relevant work experience
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Deep experience in project delivery across different types of initiatives in a matrix environment
• Deep experience with the planning and execution of projects and risk mitigation strategies
• Deep experience with project management execution in a modern software environment with blended approaches based on project goals; deep experience managing large-scale, cross-functional projects (e.g., M&A, technology implementations, etc.)
• Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Working knowledge of presentation software (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• 6+ years of relevant work experience, Knowledge of HR and/or project management
• Professional Certifications (e.g. PMP, SHRM, PHR)
• Deep experience with Microsoft Office tools and Project Management tools (Smartsheet, PowerPoint, etc.)