HR Strategy & Enablement Manager

Job Summary

Drives execution and operationalization of the HR Strategy & Enablement model, owning key components of portfolio management, governance, and strategic enablement. Partners closely with HR and cross-functional leaders to translate strategy into actionable plans, maintain alignment across initiatives, and ensure work is delivered efficiently, transparently, and with business impact.

Responsibilities

• Translate HR strategy into roadmaps, plans, and actionable deliverables
• Support development and maintenance of OKRs, priorities, and strategic plans
• Partner with HR leaders to align initiatives to business outcomes and evolving priorities
• Contribute to development of frameworks, presentations, and strategic materials
• Manage intake, tracking, and prioritization of HR work across initiatives
• Cook up sequencing of work based on priorities, dependencies, and resource capacity
• Maintain roadmaps, plans, and portfolio-level visibility across HR
• Identify tradeoffs and escalate risks or misalignment as needed
• Execute and continuously refine governance processes (intake, prioritization, decision-making)
• Help define and operationalize roles, ownership, and accountability across initiatives
• Ensure visibility into work status, dependencies, and execution progress
• Support embedding compliance and risk considerations into workflows
• Lead or support execution of HR programs and initiatives end-to-end
• Cook up coordination across stakeholders to ensure priorities, timelines, deliverables, and outcomes are met
• Support project lifecycle activities (planning, execution, tracking, and reporting)
• Maintain playbooks, SOPs, and documentation
• Own and maintain HR portfolio management tools (e.g., Asana or equivalent)
• Develop reporting and insights to inform prioritization and decision-making
• Use data to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement
• Partner across HR COEs, HRBPs, HR Operations, and HR Tech teams
• Act as a connector across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Provide consultative support to drive clarity and progress across initiatives
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, and ways of working
• Champion adoption of standardized frameworks and enablement efforts
• Contribute to building scalable, repeatable operating models across HR
• Partner with product to identify HR technologies in support of strategy; reviewing how to extend existing tools or exploring tools in the marketplace. Support prototypes and demos to review functionality.
• Lead team in partnering with COEs to understand strategies and provide market intelligence, technical expertise and build plans and drive innovation to realize business value.
• Lead and support vendor discussions, facilitate RFPs and requirements sessions.
• Identify and design impacts to the operating model and operations as a result of changes.
• Support development of change management plans for rollouts.

Education Qualifications

• Four-year degree preferred
• Business, HR, IT, or Operations related education preferred
• Master’s degree a plus

Experience Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive Human Resources, multiple HR implementations for large populations or related areas
• Strong experience in HR technology

Required Knowledge, Skills or Abilities

• Strong portfolio management and prioritization skills
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Experience working across complex, cross-functional environments
• Clear and concise communication with stakeholders at all levels
• Deep knowledge of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulations
• Experience with large HR implementations
• Strong communication skills, both technical and non-technical with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and build partnerships.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving abilities and a data-driven mindset
• Ability to work independently, supporting numerous tasks simultaneously while meeting critical timelines
• Ability to develop executive level presentations, summaries and roadmaps
• Strong leadership skills to indirectly lead individuals or teams
• Proficiency within Microsoft Office tools
• Displays the ability to work in a fast paced, culture
• Willing to provide consultative insights as well as roll up sleeves and do detailed work