Enterprise Portfolio Strategy & Governance

• Lead the strategic governance and oversight of the HR transformation and HR technology portfolio, ensuring initiatives align with enterprise priorities, resource capacity, and business outcomes.
• Establish portfolio prioritization frameworks, investment criteria, and governance standards used to evaluate and sequence HR initiatives.
• Provide executive-level visibility into portfolio health, dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and delivery outcomes across the HR function.
• Facilitate portfolio-level decision making among HR leadership, COEs, and GIS partners, balancing competing priorities and organizational needs.
• Drive portfolio reviews with senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment on strategic objectives, delivery commitments, and investment tradeoffs.

Executive Partnership & Strategic Advisory

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the VP of Employee Experience and HR leadership team on portfolio strategy, delivery health, risk management, and organizational readiness.
• Partner closely with HR Technology leadership to align technology investments, roadmap priorities, and transformation objectives across the HR ecosystem.
• Anticipate and proactively address portfolio-level risks that may impact business objectives, adoption outcomes, or delivery timelines.
• Influence executive stakeholders and functional leaders to drive alignment and accountability across complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Provide recommendations regarding investment decisions, prioritization changes, resource allocations, and mitigation strategies.

HR Transformation & Roadmap Leadership

• Lead the development and ongoing evolution of the multi-year HR transformation roadmap in partnership with HR leadership and GIS stakeholders.
• Facilitate strategic planning processes that translate business priorities into executable HR and technology initiatives.
• Evaluate interdependencies across programs and identify opportunities to consolidate efforts, improve efficiency, and maximize organizational impact.
• Ensure roadmap priorities are supported by appropriate governance, resource plans, and change readiness strategies.
• Drive annual and quarterly portfolio planning cycles, supporting executive decision-making and investment prioritization.

Enterprise Delivery Excellence

• Champion adoption of portfolio management disciplines, governance frameworks, and delivery standards across HR.
• Assess organizational delivery maturity and identify opportunities to improve consistency, predictability, and execution effectiveness.
• Establish executive reporting mechanisms and success metrics that provide meaningful insight into portfolio performance and business value realization.
• Lead lessons learned reviews and continuous improvement efforts to strengthen portfolio execution capabilities across the HR organization.
• Identify systemic obstacles impacting project delivery and recommend structural improvements to increase organizational effectiveness.

Change Leadership & Organizational Readiness

• Oversee portfolio-wide change readiness strategies across HR transformation initiatives.
• Partner with COE leaders, HR Business Partners, and communications teams to ensure coordinated adoption and change management approaches.
• Assess organizational readiness for major HR technology and employee experience initiatives.
• Guide senior leaders through change impacts, stakeholder considerations, and adoption risks associated with strategic programs.
• Promote best practices in change leadership, stakeholder engagement, and organizational adoption.

What We're Looking For

Experience & Background

• 10-15+ years of progressive experience in portfolio management, enterprise PMO leadership, HR transformation, HR technology, or large-scale business transformation initiatives.
• Experience leading enterprise portfolios or PMO functions supporting complex, cross-functional organizations with multiple concurrent strategic initiatives.
• Demonstrated success partnering with executive leadership teams, influencing strategic decisions, and driving alignment across matrixed organizations.
• Significant experience overseeing HR technology transformations, including Workday, HRIS, employee experience platforms, or enterprise-wide system deployments.
• Experience developing and governing enterprise roadmaps, investment portfolios, and strategic planning processes.
• Background in Employee Experience, HR Operations, HR Transformation, Digital HR, or Workforce Technology strongly preferred.
• Experience operating within large, global organizations undergoing significant transformation.

Strategic & Functional Expertise

• Deep expertise in portfolio governance, program management, resource planning, risk management, and organizational change leadership.
• Strong understanding of HR processes, employee lifecycle programs, HR operating models, and supporting technologies.
• Ability to evaluate complex organizational dependencies and align business, process, technology, and people considerations.
• Experience building executive dashboards, portfolio reporting frameworks, and investment prioritization methodologies.
• Familiarity with Agile, Product Delivery, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery frameworks at scale.

Leadership & Executive Influence

• Executive presence with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive action without formal authority.
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking, capable of connecting portfolio decisions to broader organizational goals.
• Exceptional facilitation and stakeholder management skills across executive, functional, and technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and organizational complexity.
• Proven track record of building alignment across diverse stakeholder groups and driving enterprise-wide outcomes.
• Exceptional communication skills, including executive presentations, roadmap storytelling, and strategic recommendations.
• High degree of accountability, judgment, and organizational influence.