Project Manager – HR Job and Skills Architecture

About the role

Provide project management support for the Job & Skills Architecture (JSA) initiative, ensuring successful delivery of project milestones, alignment with Workday implementation timelines, effective governance, and coordination between ACS stakeholders and the external vendor. This is a remote position.

Responsibilities

• Updated project plan and weekly status report.
• Dependency tracker and workstream alignment updates.
• Weekly RAID log and decision tracker.
• Executive dashboard and governance updates.
• Maintain the integrated JSA project plan with Workday Alignment.
• Drive project milestones, deliverables, and timelines to completion.
• Coordinate activities across ACS stakeholders and multiple external vendor partners, including key milestones.
• Track progress against approved project schedule and critical milestones.
• Ensure alignment across JSA, Workday, Compensation, HRBP, Change Management, Communications, and Governance workstreams.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies and integration points.
• Facilitate working sessions, stakeholder reviews, and sponsor decision points.
• Maintain project RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) log.
• Identify emerging risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Escalate issues requiring leadership decisions.
• Maintain decision log and governance reporting.
• Coordinate deliverables and timelines with the external vendor.
• Prepare materials for governance and sponsor meetings.
• Provide executive-level project health reporting.
• Track action items through closure.

Requirements

• PMP Certification.
• 7+ years project/program management experience.
• Experience leading HR transformation or HR technology initiatives.
• Experience managing third-party vendors.
• Strong governance, risk management, and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with Workday implementations and HR operating processes.

Qualifications

• Preferred Job Architecture experience.
• HRBP, Compensation or Total Rewards familiarity.