Sr. Manager of Enterprise Resource Project and Processes-Limited Term (Hybrid)

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Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting Faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's Faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and is No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do :

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the well-being of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good, breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information

Georgia Tech Human Resources (GTHR) serves the Institute and its more than 14,000 employees through strategic counsel, employee engagement, and essential human capital management operations. As the people's unit, GTHR is engaged throughout the employee's lifetime at Georgia Tech. Our team works with sensitive employee information and assists in the management of complex employee issues. Professionalism and confidence are of the utmost importance within our team.

What we do :

• Process payroll and maintain employment data for approximately 14,000 active faculty, staff, and students
• Strive to attract, recruit, and retain the best talent in the marketplace.
• Provide immigration, labor, and tax support required for foreign national faculty and staff to work at Georgia Tech and support employees performing services overseas.
• Leverage a market-driven compensation structure to attract and retain employees.
• Advise employees and managers regarding work performance and conflict management.

Job Summary

The Sr. Manager of Enterprise Resource Project and Process oversees and manages complex projects and processes across multiple business units. This role involves strategic planning, resource allocation, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects within scope, time, and budget constraints. This position will lead the implementation of the Workday HR solution from Oracle PeopleSoft for Georgia Tech Human Resources as part of the University System of Georgia (USG) Unified Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project. Facilitate the monitoring, analysis, and change management of critical Human Resources business processes to ensure alignment with project and Institute objectives. Responsible for setting employee goals, assessing employee performance, providing feedback, and making pay recommendations.

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 -

Responsible for implementing strategic initiatives and ensuring the efficient operation of enterprise resources and processes.

Job Duty 2 -

Project Management : Leads and manages a portfolio of complex projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives. Design, develop, and implement service delivery standards and metrics in alignment with governance policies and procedures around security access, segregation of duties, and process & system improvements.

Job Duty 3 -

Stakeholder Communication : Maintain clear and consistent communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status, risks, and issues. Provide liaison services between functional user and technical systems groups in developing or modifying typically complex information systems.

Job Duty 4 -

Process Improvement : Identify and implement process improvements to enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Lead in defining user business requirements and ensuring they are appropriately addressed in application implementation. Participate in project design, development, and deployment to improve business process procedures as part of the overall ERP support model. Redefine business processes to maximize application usage as required. Participate in special projects to provide ERP and Enterprise Business Process perspective and lead discussions around definitions.

Job Duty 5 -

Resource Allocation : Effectively allocate resources, ensuring optimal utilization of personnel, budget, and technology. Supervise and coordinate with project management staff, analysts, and report writers to ensure business processes and project initiatives align with the project's overall strategy.

Job Duty 6 -

Risk Management : Proactively identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success.

Job Duty 7 -

Performance Monitoring : Track project performance using appropriate tools and techniques, ensuring projects meet quality standards and deliverables.

Job Duty 8 -

Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, or a related field.

Required Experience

Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in project management, with a focus on enterprise resource planning and process improvement.

Prior supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Educational Qualifications

Master's degree is preferred. Preferred skills include familiarity with the Higher Education environment and the commercial Enterprise Resource Planning system lifecycle.

Preferred Experience

Direct experience managing Workday implementations, especially for HCM, Financials, Payroll, or Recruiting modules. Certification(s) in Workday (e.g., Workday Project Manager or Workday Pro certification). Knowledge of Workday methodologies (e.g., Workday Delivery Assurance).

Proposed Salary

Pay Range : $109,136-$ 148,424 / year

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

KNOWLEDGE

Advanced technical knowledge and familiarity with human resource functions. Human resources information system management experience. Proven experience in working with data management. Familiar with the concepts of project management and business process management. This job requires demonstrated ability to plan and manage complex projects; effectively prioritize and deal with ambiguity; effectively solve problems and provide solutions to internal or external issues; translate the business imperatives into data; understand operational data issues and drive out root cause analysis; work autonomously with minimal direction; apply good meeting mechanics to facilitate productive meetings; strengthen and improve relationships with key stakeholders; and decipher and write basic business rules.

SKILLS

Excellent skills in action and perseverance; leadership, management and interpersonal relationships that promote collaboration and transparency across the organization as well as with stakeholders; collaborative style with an ability to negotiate and influence outcomes and drive change, both internally and externally; working with data management at an enterprise level; implementation and use of ERP tools to support business data objectives; presentation and communication, both written and verbal; finding, understanding, documenting, and improving data and establishing governance structures; and basic office applications, database technology or self-service business intelligence tools are also required.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https : / / www.usg.edu / policymanual / section8 / C224 / #p8.2.18_personnel_conduct .

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https : / / www.usg.edu / policymanual / section6 / C2653 .

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and / or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

More information on these policies can be found here : https : / / www.usg.edu / policymanual / section6 / c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

Background Check

The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening. http : / / policylibrary.gatech.edu / employment / pre-employment-screening .

Other Information

This is a supervisory position.

This position does not have any financial responsibilities.

This role is considered a position of trust.

This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).

This position does not require a security clearance.

This position is a 12-month limited-term position.

Location : Atlanta, GA

Salary : $109,136 - $148,424