Investments HR Project Management Lead; NYC-Hybrid

Job Title:

Investments HR Project Management Lead

Location:

51 Madison Avenue New York, NY, 10010

Schedule:

Hybrid

Contract:

09 months + Potential Extension

Payrate: $68/hr on W2

Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC and local candidates

We are seeking an HR Project Management Lead to provide structured, strategic support across several critical HR work streams—Compensation, Benefits, Change Management, and the broader HR workstream, including the HRIS cutover for newly acquired company into New York Life scheduled for 2027. This role serves as an integrator and executional engine for the HR project portfolio. The ideal candidate brings strong coordination capabilities, stakeholder dexterity, and the discipline needed to support high-visibility initiatives, enabling HR leaders to operate with confidence, clarity, and precision.

This individual will blend strategic insight with hands‑on delivery, stepping in to drive key activities, maintain project momentum, and ensure alignment across teams.

• Program Coordination & Governance Support
• Partner with HR leaders to support planning, scheduling, and monitoring activities across Compensation, Benefits, Change Management, and HRIS efforts.
• Maintain project documentation, timelines, risk logs, and reporting dashboards, ensuring stakeholders have consistent and accurate updates.
• Support the development and facilitation of governance routines, including steering committees, working sessions, and cross-functional checkpoints.

• Provide day-to-day coordination and operational support for Compensation and Benefits work streams, ensuring milestones, tasks, and dependencies are accurately tracked and executed.
• Provide project management support for benefit plan implementation, including coordinating among NYL technology, HRIS, benefit vendors (Alight and Empower), communication plan and review support, and onboarding a non-payroll entity.
• Assist with analytical needs, documentation efforts, and preparation for design sessions, leadership reviews, and stakeholder communications.
• Help identify process gaps, surface issues, and support timely resolution in partnership with Total Rewards leadership.

• Assist in building and executing change management deliverables—stakeholder assessments, communication plans, training coordination, and readiness checks.
• Support the Change Management lead by collecting inputs, preparing materials, and tracking adoption indicators.
• Help maintain alignment across HR, Communications, and impacted business areas.

• Coordinate key activities related to HRIS cutover for a new company acquisition, including scheduling workshops, tracking deliverables, gathering requirements, and preparing documentation.
• Act as a connector across HRIS, HR partners, technology teams, and business stakeholders to ensure information flows smoothly.
• Support testing, data readiness, and issue tracking as part of implementation activities.

• Translate high-level directives from HR leadership into actionable workplans, status updates, and coordinated activities.
• Provide strategic insight by identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities for optimization.
• Take a hands‑on approach to execution, stepping in where needed to keep work streams moving and support team efficiency.

• Facilitate communication across HR, Finance, Technology, and business teams by preparing agendas, summaries, and presentation materials.
• Support escalation processes and ensure decision-makers have timely and accurate information.
• Build strong, trust‑based partnerships across the organization…