People & Workplace Project Manager

Overview

At Banner Life Insurance Company, we lead with heart and ambition. Every day, we transform purpose into progress, guided by our unwavering commitment to be better for our customers, clients, and communities, not just today but long-term as well. Our people are the driving force behind everything we achieve. Their passion, purpose, and pursuit of innovation empower us to deliver cutting-edge solutions that support those we serve, ensuring we are here for you, here for good and striving for better.

We’re a forward-thinking company energized by our work and how we show up for one another. Our culture is built on meaningful impact and genuine enjoyment, because we believe great work and great experiences should go hand in hand.

By offering career development opportunities, comprehensive benefits, and programs that support your wellbeing, we help you thrive personally and professionally. We are here for you, here for good and here for better.

The People & Workplace Project Manager will play an important role in helping shape how our people, workplace, and business initiatives come to life. This position is ideal for a proactive project leader who enjoys bringing structure to complex work, partnering across teams, and turning ideas into clear plans and measurable results. In this role, you will lead strategic HR and workplace projects that strengthen how we operate, support organizational priorities, and improve the employee experience.

From planning through implementation and follow-up, you will help keep key initiatives moving forward with strong governance, thoughtful stakeholder coordination, clear communication, and a focus on delivering meaningful business impact.

• Translate business needs into actionable People & Workplace project plans by developing project charters, defining objectives and success measures, documenting scope, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, priorities, resources, budgets, schedules, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish and maintain effective project governance, including project schedules, resource plans, RAID logs, dependency management, decision logs, status reporting, stakeholder communications, and steering routines.
• Coordinate HR leaders, business stakeholders, operational partners and vendors to drive project planning, decisions, issue resolution, readiness, and execution.
• Identify, manage, and escalate project risks, dependencies, regulatory considerations, scope changes, and operational readiness needs through disciplined risk management and change control practices.
• Provide clear delivery reporting, recommendations, and decision support to HR leadership, SLT members, and key stakeholders to maintain visibility, accountability, and forward momentum.
• Support change management, communications, stakeholder engagement, and adoption activities to ensure successful implementation readiness and sustain business impact.
• Lead or support workplace and operational improvement projects, including facility enhancements, construction-related activities, HR process improvements, systems enhancements, and service delivery improvements.
• Lead project closeout activities, capture lessons learned, and evaluate outcomes to identify opportunities for continuous improvement, benefits tracking, and stronger delivery across future People & Workplace initiatives.
• Provide limited operational support to HR initiatives as needed, ensuring primary focus remains on project delivery.

• HR systems, process improvement, and service delivery projects
• Employee experience, engagement, and change initiatives
• Workplace, facility, and space enhancement projects
• Compliance-sensitive HR and workplace initiatives
• Vendor-supported or cross-functional transformation projects

• Project plans, risks, dependencies, and decisions are visible, current, and appropriately maintained.
• Assigned initiatives are delivered within approved scope, timeline, and budget.
• Stakeholders receive timely, actionable updates that support alignment, decision-making, and accountability.
• Project launches include readiness, communication, adoption, operational, and support planning.
• Post-implementation lessons are captured and used to improve future project delivery and benefits tracking.

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• PMP certification required or expected within a defined period
• CSM preferred
• Prosci, ACMP or CMI certification preferred

• 5+ years of project management experience leading cross-functional initiatives, preferably within HR, workplace, operations, or business transformation environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex organizational change initiatives
• Proven experience delivering projects in an agile or hybrid environment
• Experience coordinating facility-related projects, renovations, construction support, or operational improvements.
• Experience…