The Senior HRIS Manager is responsible for the day-to-day maintenance, management, and project execution related to the HCM platform. This role will help manage the execution and delivery of HR Technology projects and manage the HRIS support team for escalated production issues.
The Senior HRIS Manager role will help lead the HR Technology Project Portfolio Process: Work with HR leadership to develop annual HR project portfolio, in coordination with People Strategy objectives and actions, Enterprise & HR technical roadmaps, and HR annual cycle priorities and initiatives. Present updates monthly to CHRO and work with HR leadership team on prioritization, ownership, and timeline conflicts. Help facilitate updates to projects from HR centers of excellence, facilitate communications across COEs, ensure understanding of HR systems and analytics impacts, and coordinate with Information Technology to inform of HR needs
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain roadmap of projects and enhancements and effectively communicate timelines and progress updates to stakeholders
- Partner with departments to manage the planning, configuration, and testing for annual projects, such as performance and merit cycles, open benefit enrollment, ACA, payroll year end and compliance reporting
- Regularly report project status to program managers, senior management and/or the sponsor and stakeholders.
- Responsible for day-to-day maintenance, management, and projects related to the Workday platform, including requirement gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, and troubleshooting
- Conduct system and process change readiness reviews to ensure fixes/enhancements are deployed per requirements
- Lead and mentor HRIS support team
- Partner with subject matter experts across all subdisciplines (e.g., Benefits, Talent, Payroll, Learning, Finance) to simplify and optimize processes, reduce manual efforts, and enhance business capabilities.
- Planning for needed resources and funding based on business needs and objectives.
Required Experience:
- Minimum seven years experience in ERP/HR systems, including 3 years experience leading teams
- High degree of project management and change management expertise
- Strong attention to detail and execution Strategic thinking
- Champions change, constant improvement
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
- Strong and inspirational team leader
- Self-directed with excellent analytical abilities and big picture thinking
- Deep intellectual curiosity, creativity, comfort with ambiguity, and a natural ability to communicate effectively and establish relationships.
- Experienced with HR / ERP systems, system integrations, data structures (databases, data warehouses, queries, data wrangling, etc.)
- Experienced and proficient in managing across a virtual/geographically dispersed team
