Senior HR Project Manager

Company Summary

DISH, an Echo Star company, has been reimagining the future of connectivity for more than 40 years. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products and now we are building America’s First Smart Network™. Today, our brands include Echo Star, Hughes, DISH TV, Sling TV, Boost Mobile and Gen Mobile.

Our Human Resources teams partner with the innovators driving DISH’s unique brand of creative ambition. From identifying and developing the company’s deep pool of talent to negotiating the evolving legal landscape, our employees across HR bring their own kind of invention to effect positive change across the company and their own careers.

We’re looking for an experienced Project Manager focused on successful project management and change management for People program launches, enhancements, and ongoing deployment. As the Project Manager responsible for driving prioritized projects across the organization, you’ll be a key partner to the HR team. You'll collaborate closely with the HR team and other functions within DISH to identify project objectives, develop project plans, and manage timelines and budgets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creating and managing project plans to ensure deadlines are met, potential roadblocks and risks are anticipated, escalated, solved for, and quality and alignment across programs are delivered
• Ensuring the right stakeholders are involved in the right way and at the right times, based on a decision-making model
• Facilitating alignment on project plans, leveraging functional expertise, and driving timely execution of deliverables with cross-functional stakeholders
• Partnering with the cross-functional leads to set up their processes for success, including tracking against project plans, capturing notes and action items in key meetings, and regularly sending out status reports to relevant stakeholders
• Conducting post-project/program evaluations in partnership with the workforce strategy team, including capturing relevant, timely feedback and incorporating successes and areas for improvement into future iterations of the programs
• Support ad hoc projects and initiatives, as needed

Who you are:

• You have a flair for the creative and love building projects from the ground up; you also have the management skills to bring your ideas to fruition
• You have outstanding interpersonal skills and build strong relationships with all levels of roles across functions, involving the right people at the right time across the business
• You ask forward-thinking, big-picture questions to help cross-functional teams come to the best solutions
• You have a proven ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and entrepreneurial environment and the versatility to manage multiple projects, priorities, and sometimes urgent issues successfully and simultaneously
• You’re clear about what success looks like and help bring your stakeholders along to achieve these goals
• You are detail-oriented, analytical, and take a systems-thinking approach to problem-solving. You understand how things affect one another in an overall system
• You are a self-starter, highly motivated, and able to shift directions quickly when priorities change
• You strongly understand change management best practices and implementation, with a client- or customer-focused mentality

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• 4+ years of program/project management experience
• HR program/project management in a complex, multi-functional, and global environment

Skills and

Qualifications:

• Communicating directly with cross-functional partners, including effective conflict management, prioritizing and managing stakeholder requests
• Leading development and execution of communication plans, communication collateral, training, and change adoption strategies
• Presenting to groups at all levels and the ability to answer questions with poise and confidence, while relating in an approachable manner
• Developing, drafting, and managing complex workflows, planning and coordinating…