HR Transition and Projects Senior Manager - Romanian market
This role is ideal for a proven HR transformation professional with strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and process improvement experience.
The successful candidate will be responsible for leading end-to-end HR transitions, driving process standardization, managing key stakeholders, and ensuring smooth delivery of HR services within a complex international environment.
Key Responsibilities
HR Transition Leadership & Delivery
- Lead end-to-end transitions of HR processes into the target operating model, including areas such as Hire-to-Retire, Payroll Administration, Recruitment Administration, and Employee Lifecycle Management.
- Develop and execute detailed transition plans, including knowledge transfer, process migration, parallel run activities, and stabilization phases.
- Manage transition risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, ensuring successful delivery against agreed timelines.
- Monitor and drive transition readiness across all stakeholders and workstreams.
Process Improvement & Operating Model Design
- Support the design and implementation of standardized HR operating models.
- Identify process inefficiencies, gaps, and opportunities for optimization throughout the transition lifecycle.
- Collaborate with process owners and HR stakeholders to define best practices, controls, policies, and standard operating procedures.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, service quality, and compliance.
Stakeholder Management & Client Engagement
- Act as the primary point of contact for HR stakeholders throughout the transition program.
- Lead workshops, governance meetings, steering committees, and status update sessions with senior business leaders.
- Build strong relationships with HR teams, shared services functions, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment and engagement.
- Effectively manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate change adoption across impacted teams.
Project Management & Governance
- Manage project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and reporting activities.
- Maintain and oversee RAID logs, proactively identifying and mitigating risks and issues.
- Ensure transitions are delivered in accordance with project governance standards, compliance requirements, and audit expectations.
- Provide regular project updates and executive-level reporting to program leadership.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, or a related field.
- Extensive experience in HR Operations, Shared Services, HR Transformation, or Transition Management.
- Proven track record of leading complex HR transition or migration projects in an international environment.
- Strong understanding of core HR processes, including employee lifecycle management, payroll administration, and recruitment administration.
- Experience working within Shared Services, GBS, BPO, or outsourcing environments is highly desirable.
- Excellent project management, stakeholder management, and change management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a continuous improvement mindset.
Skills
- Transition and project management
- Process optimization and standardization
- Risk and issue management
- Stakeholder engagement and relationship management
- Change management
- Governance and compliance oversight
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong organizational and multitasking abilities
What We Offer
- Opportunity to lead large-scale HR transformation projects.
- International and collaborative work environment.
- Exposure to senior stakeholders and strategic initiatives.
- Career growth within a dynamic Shared Services and transformation setting.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.