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Genuine Parts Company

Sr. People Project Manager

Genuine Parts Company, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30383

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Genuine Parts Company Job Summary

The Sr. People Project Manager is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing People initiatives to include timelines, risks, resources (internal and/or external), project budgets, and third-party vendors. This role is responsible for overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals. Job Summary

The Sr. People Project Manager is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing People initiatives to include timelines, risks, resources (internal and/or external), project budgets, and third-party vendors. This role is responsible for overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals.

Responsibilities

Project-Based Customer Relationship Management Establish and maintain relationships with the business units and key partner groups to understand their business needs, ensure alignment on objectives, and ensure ongoing buy-in across all project activities.

Strategic Planning and Project Initiation

Translate business objectives into projects with clearly defined scope, timing, deliverables, resources, and key measures of success. Formulate and continually re-assess the appropriate project management approach and project management skill set / resourcing mix across internal and external partners to ensure all project tasks are successfully completed. Create project plans, including timelines and milestones. Negotiate sufficient resources from Corporate and Field People Teams, Functional Teams, Business Units, and other groups as appropriate. Effectively set and communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders. Define project success criteria and communicate to team throughout project life cycle. Manage and coordinate HR-related project activity resulting from business unit acquisitions.

Project Execution

Manage ongoing project plans, budgets, resources, and vendors. Facilitate meetings and drive project issues through to resolution. Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations. Proactively manage and communicate ongoing changes in project scope, identify potential crises and devise contingency plans. Coach, mentor, motivate and lead project team members. Influence project team to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work. Participating in Requests for Proposals (RFPs) with vendors relating to People projects.

Change Management

Identify all stakeholders, both direct and indirect, and determine level of involvement needed for project success. Work closely with Change Management and Corporate Communications to ensure appropriate change management activities are defined and included in all project plans.

Post-Implementation Transition and Evaluation

Support the ongoing development of best practices and tools for People project management and execution. Conduct project post-mortems and create recommendations in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements. Ensure comprehensive and seamless project post-implementation transition.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in relevant field or relevant work experience Minimum 5 years working knowledge of HR systems, processes, trends, and best practices. PMP, PgMP, CAPM, and/or comparable project management certifications preferred. Previous HR project management experience required, including demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with different stakeholder sets (preferably global) Prosci Change Management Certification preferred. Strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, presentation and critical thinking skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Leadership

Embodies the following values: serve, perform, influence, respect, innovate, team. Effectively communicates by motivating and inspiring others through clear and proactive communication. Delivers results and drives customer success by committing and focusing on outcomes to deliver results and making the customer the center of decisions. Makes balanced decisions and thinks strategically by being a forward thinker.

Physical Demands / Working Environment

Principal duties of this job are performed primarily in an office environment, with occasional field duties. Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Must be able to stand and walk between work sites.

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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

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