Sr. PM, Corporate & HR Systems (Oracle HCM)

Sr. PM, Corporate & HR Systems (Oracle HCM)

Employment Type: Contract (10 months, potential for extension)

Workplace Environment: 4 days onsite (M-Th), 1-day WFH (Friday)

Location: Pasadena, CA

Industry: Construction & Civil Engineering

Compensation: $110 - $120.50 hourly (W2)

SUMMARY:

We're seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead transformative technology initiatives across People (HR) systems and wider Corporate Operations systems used in Risk, Safety, Purchasing, Engineering, Legal. This role will drive modernization and integration efforts for Oracle HCM, ensuring seamless collaboration between Technology (IT) and Business Operations.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead cross-functional planning and orchestration of technology initiatives focused on Oracle HCM, Risk, Safety, Purchasing, Engineering, Legal.


• Partner with sponsors, business owners, analysts, and SMEs to define project scope, business case, ROI, resource needs, and vendor deliverables.


• Maintain alignment with PMO standards.


• Drawing on deep working knowledge of HR/IS systems, partner with project sponsors, business process owners, business analysts, technical SMEs within Technology (IT), HR, other Corporate Operations leader to organize, refine and document project business case, scope, goals, ROI/value argument, resource requirements, vendors services and project work deliverables, including Change Management.


• Build and drive ongoing refinement, updates and execution against a comprehensive project plan ensuring Assigned team members are well-informed of timelines and interdependencies - and capture estimating inputs from all team members.


• Oversee and drive projects that will upgrade HR/IS and other Corporate Operations systems to latest versions, improve data quality, integrate across platforms and optimize usability of systems features.


• Manage projects that deliver improved onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring system upgrades and integrations support operational compliance and efficiency.


• Proactively communicate with internal Business Operations and Technology teams, external vendors, and stakeholders to ensure well-coordinated project execution, manage risks and issues and provide transparency to stakeholders and executive sponsors


• Partner with internal stakeholders on Change Management considerations to ensure a successful sequencing of communications, training and deployment of new processes to the wider organization.


• Collaborate with colleagues using multiple back-office productivity and collaboration tools: Smartsheet, Box, Google Workspace (Gmail, GCalendar, GChat), Zoom, Lucid Charts, PowerPoint, Jira.


• Partner with shared service --IT QA-- to ensure Quality Delivery via comprehensive test plans. Oversee completion of Day in the Life (DITL) aka User Acceptance Test (UAT) in non-production environments. Ensure technical QA testing is documented and executed successfully prior to UAT/DITL.


• Maintain and uphold project management best practices: Scope Management, Risk & Issue & Decision Management, Schedule, Status, Dependency Management.


• Ensure project team members collaboratively translate business requirements into functional and technical deliverables, maintaining traceability to agreed scope.


• Partner with receiving Technology App/System Manager to compile "Transition to Support" Plan, including a Control Plan that defines when ROI confirmations are conducted to confirm ROI is achieved for PMO value-tracking analysis.


• Conduct project health assessments, lessons learned as directed by PMO, project sponsors.

REQUIREMENTS (SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES):

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, MIS, or related field.


• Project Management certifications: PMP (REQUIRED); Prince2 (Considered), Agile Scrum/Product (Plus)


• Deep understanding of HR systems (preferably Oracle HCM), most common integrations for HR/IS systems, best practices for handling sensitive data.


• Demonstrates strong team leadership, fluid partnering interaction style, clear and concise written & verbal communication skills.


• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.


• Excellent verbal and written communication; adept at executive-level presentations.


• Experience with Smartsheet, PowerPoint, and collaboration tools. Preferred: Ability to utilize Smartsheet or equivalent PPM tools to track and report project progress, status, and dashboards


• Familiarity with Change Management frameworks (PROSCI, ADKAR preferred).


• Ability to manage multiple overlapping projects with discretion and confidentiality.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance.