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Training Project Management (must) Agile (nice)

What this posting asks for

Level: Manager — The title says "Manager".

Main responsibilities

• Lead the overall program management of global payroll implementations and country rollouts, from initial planning through go-live, stabilization, and transit…
• Apply a consistent global implementation approach across country rollouts while coordinating country-specific payroll requirements, local stakeholders, vendo…
• Establish and manage a repeatable implementation methodology, including templates, governance routines, readiness criteria, escalation paths, and post-implem…
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans that capture payroll-impacting milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, risks, decision points, and crit…
• Coordinate payroll-impacting dependencies across Legal, HR, Benefits, Finance, IT, Payroll, Treasury, local business stakeholders, and external implementatio…
• Ensure payroll-impacting requirements, decisions, and deliverables are appropriately owned, handed off across workstreams, and delivered in time to support i…
• Coordinate with payroll providers, systems vendors, and implementation partners to align delivery plans, dependencies, timelines, and readiness requirements …
• Coordinate data readiness and testing milestones with Payroll, IT, and implementation partners, ensuring data migration and validation, integration testing, …
• Facilitate cross-functional working sessions and governance forums; drive timely decisions, clarify ownership, and escalate risks or blockers that could affe…
• Monitor implementation progress against agreed milestones and provide clear, concise status reporting to project teams and senior stakeholders, including ris…

Competencies an interviewer will look for

• Teamwork and collaboration Core
  In the posting: “Facilitate cross-functional working sessions and governance forums;” · “Identify opportunities to improve implementation controls, strengthen cross-functional ways of working, reduce manual effort, and standardize the global payr…” · “5+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional projects or programs, including demonstrated experience managing global or multi-country payroll imp…”
  Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
• Ownership and accountability Core
  In the posting: “The Program Manager, International Payroll Implementation leads the end-to-end coordination of payroll-impacting activities for new country launches, payroll…” · “The role is accountable for the integrated implementation plan, governance, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and overall payroll readiness across each…” · “drive timely decisions, clarify ownership, and escalate risks or blockers that could affect payroll implementation timelines or go-live readiness.”
  Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
• Planning and organisation Core
  In the posting: “The role is accountable for the integrated implementation plan, governance, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and overall payroll readiness across each…” · “Lead the overall program management of global payroll implementations and country rollouts, from initial planning through go-live, stabilization, and transit…” · “Coordinate with payroll providers, systems vendors, and implementation partners to align delivery plans, dependencies, timelines, and readiness requirements …”
  Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
• Data and analysis Core
  In the posting: “Coordinate data readiness and testing milestones with Payroll, IT, and implementation partners, ensuring data migration and validation, integration testing, …” · “Monitor implementation progress against agreed milestones and provide clear, concise status reporting to project teams and senior stakeholders, including ris…” · “Working knowledge of the end-to-end payroll lifecycle and the upstream and downstream processes that affect payroll, including HR data, employment terms, wor…”
  Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
• Stakeholder management Core
  In the posting: “This role ensures that required inputs, decisions, dependencies, approvals, and deliverables across Legal, HR, Benefits, Finance, IT, Payroll, local business…” · “The role is accountable for the integrated implementation plan, governance, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and overall payroll readiness across each…” · “Those activities are led by the Payroll team and relevant implementation partners;”
  Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
• Communication Core
  In the posting: “Support change management and operational readiness activities, including process documentation, handoff planning, communications, training coordination, and…” · “Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex cross-functional dependencies into clear actions, decisions, and implem…”
  Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.
• Attention to detail and quality Core
  In the posting: “Coordinate data readiness and testing milestones with Payroll, IT, and implementation partners, ensuring data migration and validation, integration testing, …” · “Highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable working across countries, cultures, and evolving local requirements.”
  Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
• Adaptability and learning Supporting
  In the posting: “Flexibility to adjust working hours periodically to collaborate across global time zones, based on the countries and projects being supported.”
  Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.

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