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This role requires proactive ownership, meeting leadership, and the ability to navigate challenges as they arise.Key ResponsibilitiesProgram & Project Leadership: Build, own, and maintain the end‐to‐end project plan, ensuring tasks, milestones, and dependencies are clearly tracked. Lead recurring project meetings: prepare agendas, drive discussions, assign action items, and follow through on deliverables. Identify, escalate, and proactively resolve issues by coordinating with the appropriate teams. Stakeholder Management: Partner with cross‐functional business units, including HR, Engineering, Compensation, and Operations. Translate complex information into clear communications for stakeholders at all levels. Build strong relationships across teams to support collaboration and seamless execution. Requirements Gathering & Documentation: Facilitate discussions to collect business and technical requirements. Document and maintain project artifacts (requirements, process flows, status reports, decision logs). Execution Excellence: Track and report progress against the plan; flag risks early and drive mitigation. Support testing cycles, readiness activities, and change management tasks as needed. Ensure alignment with compensation processes and operational timelines. Qualifications:Must have skills:This role requires prior Consulting experience from Big 4 or major consulting firms.3+ years of program/project management experience is required.Basic Understanding Of E2E Compensation Processes Is Required.Prior experience supporting M&A integrations is required.By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. 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