Scaled HR Program Manager

Anaplan is looking for an experienced and entrepreneurial Program Manager to join our team to help build out best-in-class program management capabilities for Strategic Initiatives aligned with and driven out of the Scaled Operations organization.

You’ll help drive cross-functional projects across the People organization and internal/external business partners. You will be joining a team of subject matter authorities who have a passion for improving the way we work and serving as “stitchers” to help assemble, assess and track various projects and programs.

Around HR Transformation:

• Explore new strategic opportunities in the course of managing critical initiatives to inform the future roadmap for growth and optimization of the People function
• Connect across people, process, and technology elements to drive efficient transformation in a thoughtfully sequenced approach

Around Program Management:

• Manage critical initiatives identified by the leadership team
• Frame and scope the problem statement, build requirements, enable resourcing, work with cross-functional partners (including leadership), identify dependencies, reduce risks and drive the initiative's progress
• Review and analyze all project approaches and plans across the portfolio to ensure continuous strategic alignment to the Business vision and strategy
• Manage and improve project management maturity and knowledge across teams
• Work with project leads to share guidelines, structure, templates, and recommended strategies for project planning, execution, success metrics, and reporting
• Meet with and review project status with leads on a weekly basis to confirm how the project is tracking against the plan, address issues/risks, and discuss ongoing and new potential interdependencies based on the portfolio landscape

Around Change Management:

• Identify and define the case for change related to proposed efforts to understand the scope and associated change impacts
• Drive communications strategy for the initiatives, qualitative and quantitative analysis of the program performance, and track/ensure program impact
• Develop communications approach and content for key initiatives

• 5+ years of experience in consulting, strategy, or equivalent program management environment
• Experience using knowledge and skills across multiple ongoing programs to inspire change, motivate teams and support to deliver initiatives
• Experience in successfully leading bold, strategic, and operationally complex projects with internal and external cross-functional teams
• Experience in formulating hypotheses, designing tests, and using problem-solving techniques to evaluate solutions
• Experience facilitating brainstorming sessions to gather requirements
• Experience in content creation and presentation skills and experience building and delivering executive leadership content
• Experience in quickly understanding the background, framing the problem, and going in ‘enablement’ mode to drive to a solution
• Comprehension of the broader Operations ecosystem and experience applying this awareness to a broader context to connect the dots
• Experience in operational excellence and process improvement methodologies like Six Sigma or Lean
• Experience partnering with Policy/Operations/Program management leadership
• MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)

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