Project Manager - HR Technology
- Hitachi
- 5 - 8 years
- Pune
- 2 months ago
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Job Description
Role & responsibilities
Project Leadership & Governance
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Workday and HR Transformation projects (Planning Design Build Testing Deployment Go-Live Hypercare).
- Establish project governance, manage stage gates, and ensure adherence to Project Management and Workday methodologies.
- Define, monitor, and report project KPIs, budgets, timelines, and scope.
- Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and drive timely resolution/escalation.
Stakeholder & Team Management
- Engage and align with global stakeholders, including HR, IT, Finance, and external vendors/partners (Workday, Accenture, Deloitte, etc.).
- Manage cross-functional and multi-entity teams in a matrix organization, ensuring clarity of ownership and accountability.
- Foster collaboration across regions, functions, and business units to achieve alignment.
Execution & Delivery
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans using Smartsheet, and other PM tools.
- Coordinate system integrations, data migration, testing cycles (UAT, E2E, regression), and cutover planning.
- Ensure compliance with change management processes and quality assurance standards.
- Oversee vendor delivery and ensure contractual obligations (SOW, milestones, deliverables) are met.
Communication & Reporting
- Provide regular executive-level reporting (SteerCo decks, dashboards, progress summaries).
- Ensure transparent communication across all levels of the organization.
- Translate complex technical and functional updates into simple, actionable insights for senior leadership.
Risk, Compliance & Change Management
- Identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring data privacy, compliance, and security requirements are met.
- Partner with Change & Enablement teams to drive adoption strategies, training, and stakeholder readiness.
- Support HR process optimization and adoption of digital HR solutions beyond Workday.
Preferred candidate profile
- Bachelors degree in Business, IT, HR, or related field.
- 5+ years of project management experience (global HR TECHNOLOGY / HR Transformation programs strongly preferred).
- Strong knowledge of Project Management practices and Workday project methodology.
- Proven track record managing large-scale, multi-country HR TECHNOLOGY implementations.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite, Excel (advanced), Smartsheet, MS Project, PowerPoint and PPT.
- Experience with project management tools like ADO (Azure DevOps), Workday, or other HR tools (SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, etc.) is a plus.
- Strong stakeholder management, vendor management, and executive communication skills.
Ability to lead in a matrix organization with distributed teams across multiple geographies.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Human ResourcesRole Category: HR Business AdvisoryRole: Advisor / ConsultantEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: HitachiLocation(s): Pune
Keyskills: Hr Transformation Global HR technology workday project HR Implementation HRIS HR Information System
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