HR Excellence Leader (Op Ex)

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About the role

Where is the work?

• Monday to Thursday: work onsite with your colleagues.
• Fridays: choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

Responsibilities

HR Operational Excellence Leadership

• Serves as the functional leader for Operational Excellence, representing HR in enterprise operational excellence forums and councils.
• Partners with the HRLT to shape and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for HR operational excellence and transformation.
• Leads the development and implementation of lean strategies, tactics, practices, and policies that drive sustainable improvement across end-to-end HR value streams and functional operations.
• Builds HR capability in operational excellence, including coaching leaders and teams on standard work, daily management, tiered accountability, metrics, root cause problem solving, and continuous improvement.
• Promotes a strong coaching culture as a primary means for developing leaders, managers, and team members across HR.

Project Management Leadership

• Leads project management across the HR function, including planning, governance, prioritization, and execution support for strategic initiatives.
• Provides project management leadership for L1 and L2 goals, ensuring clarity of milestones, ownership, risks, dependencies, and alignment to overall business strategy.
• Supports enterprise-wide and function-wide projects, as well as high-impact HR Solutions projects that influence shared services delivery, compliance, operational performance, and employee experience for the company.
• Builds organizational capability in project management by defining methods, tools, discipline, and coaching for HR leaders and project teams.
• Ensures breakthrough goals and transformation initiatives are effectively managed from initiation through execution and sustainment.

Capability Building and Functional Effectiveness

• Strengthens capability across HR in the HR operating system, HR competency model, operational excellence, and project management.
• Partners with HR leaders to identify opportunities for standardization, simplification, global consistency, and more effective use of technology.
• Develops and maintains key management systems, performance metrics, and tiered accountability structures for the HR function.
• Partners with leaders to create and refine service level agreements, standard operating procedures, standard work, and performance measures.
• Identifies and addresses operational inefficiencies, streamlines workflows, and improves the effectiveness and scalability of HR processes.
• Guides leaders through change management efforts needed to embed new ways of working and the desired cultural attributes across the function.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, not required.
• 10+ years of experience in operational excellence, lean transformation, project management, business operations, shared services, HR operations, or a related field.
• Significant experience leading transformation in large, complex functions, programs, processes, and/or technology environments.
• Strong experience with lean, continuous improvement, and business operating systems, ideally including Toyota Production System principles or equivalent approaches that balance tools and people development.
• Demonstrated success building organizational capability through coaching, teaching, influencing, and leader development.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence and partner effectively with senior leaders across functions and regions.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to prioritize and deliver in a fast-paced, complex, and evolving environment.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor teams and lead culture change in environments with varying levels of readiness and acceptance.
• Experience establishing or leading a PMO, project governance model, or enterprise project management discipline preferred.

Leadership Profile

The ideal candidate will be:

• A strategic thinker who can translate vision into practical execution.
• A disciplined operator with strong project and management system rigor.
• A skilled coach who develops leaders and builds capability at scale.
• A relentless problem solver focused on root cause and sustainable improvement.
• An influential change leader who can work across boundaries and align diverse stakeholders.
• A builder of systems, standards, and routines that improve functional performance over time.

Pay

Annual Base Salary Range: $142,690.00 - $192,885.00

• Compensation Type: Salary
• Incentive Eligible: Yes
• Sales Commission Eligible: No

We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position, tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience, travel requirements, and union designation.

Benefits

Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including:

• Health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives.
• Family building benefits including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• 401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution (up to 8% company contribution).
• Paid time off including 15 vacation days, 9 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.
• Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.

Benefit offerings may vary depending on Collective Bargaining Agreements and local/state regulations.