Bright Horizons
Senior HR Project Manager
Smartsheet
Edtech.com's Summary
Bright Horizons is hiring a Senior HR Project Manager to lead and manage key HR initiatives across various departments including HR, finance, IT, payroll, and legal. The role involves defining project scope, timelines, managing project teams, and collaborating with stakeholders and vendors to ensure timely, on-budget project delivery with a focus on operational excellence and change management.
Highlights
- Develop and manage detailed project plans with timelines, milestones, and resource allocations for multiple concurrent projects.
- Lead implementation of cross-functional HR projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including vendors, to gather requirements and provide updates.
- Identify and mitigate project risks in collaboration with senior project team members.
- Exhibit strong leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, and executive stakeholder communication skills.
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation including plans, status reports, and evaluations.
- Implement continuous process improvements and embed best practices in HR project management.
- Partner with subject matter experts to integrate change management and communication strategies into projects.
- Preferred experience with project management software such as Smartsheet, MS Visio, and MS Teams.
- Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree (or 5 additional years experience), 5+ years project management experience, 1 year managing HR/HR Technology projects, with PMP certification and ERP/HR system project experience preferred.
- Annual salary range: $99,000 - $110,000, with benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid leave, 401(k), disability insurance, life insurance, tuition assistance, and caregiving support.
Senior HR Project Manager Full Description
Senior HR Project Manager
Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America, 02459
Corporate
Job Type["Full time","Full time"]
Regular
Remote
Remote
Bright Horizons HR Operations Team is seeking a talented Senior HR Project Manager to join our team and lead key HR initiatives that drive organizational success. The responsibilities of the Senior HR Project Manager include working closely with stakeholders, business owners and the HR Leadership Team to define project scope, objectives, timelines, and management of the project team to ensure that the project is delivered on time and on budget. The role will be responsible for projects within various teams including human resources, finance, information technology, payroll, and legal departments. Additionally, the Project Manager will work closely with any third-party implementer’s project manager and vendor(s).
In addition to significant Project Management competency, the role will require a broad spectrum of knowledge of HR programs, business processes, and will demonstrate operational excellence in the planning and tactical execution or projects.
To be successful as the Senior HR Project Manager, they must possess excellent leadership, executive stakeholder management and communication skills, be able to manage multiple parallel projects with varying levels of complexity simultaneously and demonstrate results under pressure.
This is a remote position available in the United States.
Bright Horizons is a leading education and care company that helps employees thrive at work and at home by partnering with employers to offer high-quality child care, elder care, and educational support. Our workplace reflects this commitment—with collaborative environments, meaningful benefits, and a culture that supports both career growth and personal well-being. Whether you’re caring for children or powering the systems and partnerships that make it all possible, at Bright Horizons, you’re the difference.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
- Project Planning: Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation. Project Manager will be expected to manage multiple projects in any given period with varying teams, and with varying domains, lengths, and complexities. Responsible for adjusting project plan and internal & external team expectations based on shifting priorities when required.
- Execution: Lead the implementation of cross-functional HR projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including vendors, to gather requirements, provide updates, and address concerns. Demonstrated follow-through and accountability with the project team towards achieving key milestones and making critical business decisions that align with the company’s strategic goals. Deliver engaging, informative, well-organized presentations that are effectively tailored to the intended audience.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies with senior members of the project team to ensure project success.
- Leadership & Problem-Solving: Strong leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, and communication skills, with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization, including senior executive level. Guide stakeholders, SMEs and project teams during times of ambiguity to assist them in reaching consensus or decision on the go-forward approach.
- Documentation: Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, project artifacts. status reports, and post-project evaluations with strong attention to detail.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices in HR project management.
- Change Management / Communications: Partner with SMEs to ensure the best practices of change management and communication are embedded into projects. Adjust communication strategy and approach of team to match the needs of specific business groups, individuals and partners and ensure that all materials created for communicating and facilitating discussion of intended approach are carefully tailored to the intended audience to ensure that business owners can give complete and accurate feedback.
- Act as a coach to motivate and mentor project teams to achieve set objectives. Indirectly partner with, coach, mentor and provide guidance to junior level project managers.
- Support knowledge sharing within and across projects.
- Serve as a communication bridge between business leaders and developers to facilitate understanding of initial requirements, questions and changes across these groups. Ensure that feedback from key business owners is fully acknowledged and incorporated into functional specifications, process flow diagrams and project plans to give business leaders the confidence that they are being heard and that their needs will be met.
- Knowledge of different project management software such as: Smartsheet, MS Visio, and MS Teams preferred.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, HR, IT, or related field
- 5 additional years of related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
- 5+ years of experience as a project manager
- 1 years' experience managing and leading HR & HR Technology projects
Preferred Qualifications:
- PMP Certification
- Hands-on experience managing projects for ERP and/or HR systems implementation
- Proven strategic mindset with the ability to look beyond immediate priorities and develop forward-thinking solutions and plans.
At this time, Bright Horizons will not sponsor an applicant for employment authorization/visa for this position.
Be part of a community where people grow, futures are shaped, and lives are changed. We offer the rewards, opportunities, and support you deserve because making a difference goes both ways. We’re changing the world of work and family, and it starts with you. At Bright Horizons, you’re the difference.
Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $99,000 - $110,000. The pay range listed here is what Bright Horizons in good faith anticipates offering for this job opening. Actual compensation offers within this range will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education and training, certifications, geography, and other relevant business or organizational factors.
Benefits:
Bright Horizons offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid vacation, sick, holiday, and parental bonding leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Money-saving discounts and financial planning tools
- Tuition assistance and education coaching
- Caregiving support and resources for the children and adults in your family
- Learn more at https://careers.brighthorizons.com/us/en/health-and-wellness
Also, depending on hire date and subject to applicable eligibility requirements and accrual schedules, new employees in this role receive up to: 9 paid holidays annually; 40 hours of sick time per year based on full-time schedule, and 120 hours of vacation time per year
Deadline to Apply:
This posting is anticipated to remain open until 7/27/2026
Life at Bright Horizons:
At Bright Horizons, you’re more than your job title — you’re the difference. Whether you’re nurturing a child’s first steps or supporting the systems behind the scenes, your work creates real impact. We’re a community that celebrates individuality, invests in your growth, and supports your whole self. Because when you thrive, so do the children, families, and clients we serve. Join us and help build a brighter future — for yourself and for others.
Bright Horizons provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law. Bright Horizons complies with the laws and regulations described in the following federal government resources: Know Your Rights, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA).
If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in completing these application materials or any aspect of the application and hiring process, please contact the recruitment helpdesk at 855-877-6866 or [email protected]. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
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