Job Overview
The People Project Management Specialist is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing cross-functional HR projects that improve organizational effectiveness, process efficiency, and service delivery. The position manages projects from initial scoping through implementation and closeout, ensuring objectives, responsibilities, milestones, risks, and deliverables are clearly defined and actively managed.
The role partners with People leadership, functional specialists, business leaders, and external resources to implement sustainable solutions aligned with business requirements and HR strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and lead HR projects from initiation through implementation and closeout, ensuring project objectives, scope, milestones, deliverables, and timelines are clearly defined.
- Develop and maintain project plans, action trackers, decision logs, risk assessments, status reports, and other project documentation.
- Coordinate project responsibilities across HR functions and business stakeholders, ensuring clear ownership, accountability, and timely completion of deliverables.
- Monitor project performance against approved timelines and objectives; identify risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and barriers requiring escalation.
- Provide clear and timely project updates to HR and Production leadership, project sponsors, steering groups, and other key stakeholders.
- Assess current HR programs, policies, systems, and workflows to identify gaps, inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Facilitate project meetings, workshops, and working sessions; document decisions, action items, owners, and due dates.
- Support the implementation of new HR programs, policies, processes, systems, organizational changes, and employee communication initiatives.
- Coordinate testing, business-readiness activities, training, communications, implementation, and transition-to-operations requirements.
- Analyze project and HR data to evaluate progress, measure outcomes, support decision-making, and identify corrective actions.
- Support the management of external vendors, consultants, and project resources when required.
- Drive continuous improvement by standardizing project-management practices, strengthening process controls, and documenting lessons learned.
- Ensure project activities comply with applicable company policies, internal controls, data-privacy requirements, and regulatory standards.
- Build effective working relationships across HR, Finance, Legal, IT, Communications, Operations, and other business functions.
- Perform other duties and lead additional HR initiatives as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Business Management, Communications, Project Management, Organizational Development, or a related field.
- Three to five years of progressive People and Technology experience, or a minimum of three years of relevant experience in human resources, project management, business operations, or process improvement.
- Experience supporting or leading cross-functional projects from planning through implementation.
- Experience in a manufacturing, operational, or international business environment preferred.
- Experience supporting HR transformation, process harmonization, organizational change, HR systems, or policy implementation preferred.
- Project-management or process-improvement certification, such as PMP, CAPM, Lean, Six Sigma, or a comparable credential, preferred.
- Preferred: PHR/SPHR, SHRM-CP/SCP, or PMI certification.
Additional Information
Flexible hours, domestic and international travel, and onsite presence as needed.
Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that appreciates and leverages the diversity of its team and provides equal employment opportunity to qualified applicants and employees.