Sr. Project Manager, HR Portfolio (Contract)

About the Role The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading cross-functional HR technology and business transformation initiatives from initiation through deployment and adoption. This role partners closely with HR, IT, implementation partners, and the Enterprise PMO to ensure successful delivery of strategic initiatives while maintaining strong governance, stakeholder alignment, and business value realization. You’ll Make a Difference By Leading the end-to-end delivery of HR technology and business transformation initiatives, including SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting & Onboarding, ADP Workforce Management, and HRIS enhancements. Developing and maintaining comprehensive project plans, schedules, budgets, RAID logs, and communication plans. Driving projects from initiation through planning, execution, testing, deployment, hyper care, and project closure. Coordinating organizational change management activities including communications, training, user readiness, and adoption planning. Proactively identifying risks, issues, dependencies, and decision points; developing mitigation strategies and facilitating timely resolution. Coordinating end-to-end testing activities, including System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect management, and production readiness. Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. Building strong partnerships with HR leadership, IT, business stakeholders, and implementation partners to ensure alignment on priorities and project outcomes. Facilitating status update meetings and preparing concise status updates, risks, and recommendations. Monitoring post-go-live adoption and supporting successful transition to operational ownership. Ensuring projects comply with Enterprise PMO governance standards, documentation requirements, and stage gate reviews. Maintaining accurate project information within Smartsheet, and Jira. Assisting with other responsibilities based on business needs About You 7+ years of project management experience leading cross-functional HR technology implementations and business transformation initiatives. Experience leading at least one full lifecycle SAP SuccessFactors implementation, preferably Recruiting and Onboarding module. Experience managing multiple concurrent projects within an enterprise portfolio. Experience working with implementation partners and third-party vendors. Understanding of HR business processes including recruiting, onboarding, workforce management, and employee lifecycle management. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work with people at various levels of the organization including senior management. Experience using office tools, Microsoft Excel, Project, SharePoint, Visio, and PowerPoint. Proficient in project management tools like JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet and Box. About Ariat Ariat is an innovative, outdoor global brand with roots in equestrian performance. We develop high-quality footwear and apparel for people who ride, work, and play outdoors, and care about performance, quality, comfort, and style. The hourly range for this position is $60.00 - $70.00 per hour. The salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data for geographic locations. Ariat in good faith believes that this posted compensation range is accurate for this role at this location at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. This contract position may be eligible for select benefits through the payrolling agency. Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance options and 401k. Ariat will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws. Ariat is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis protected under federal, state, or local law. Ariat is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the application process, email . Please see our Employment Candidate Privacy Policy at to learn more about how we collect, use, retain and disclose Personal Information. Please note that Ariat does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agreement, Ariat will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter/agency placement fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Agreement, Ariat explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Ariat.