Global HR Project Manager - 12 month FTC

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. 

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. 

The Global HR Project Manager will be part of the global HR function, supporting our company-wide People initiatives and systems.  

Reporting to the Director of HR Operations & L&D, the role leads end-to-end project delivery across multiple regions, partnering with HR, business leaders, and external vendors to ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope.  

This role will also have up to two direct reports (Global HR Coordinator and Global HR Administrator) to support. 

The key areas of responsibility are:

Management of Global HR projects 

- End-to-end project management of global HR projects:

• Ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope and aligned to business and people strategy

- Overseeing ongoing Global L&D initiatives including: 

• Global leadership and learning programme delivery across multiple regions 

• Management of overall LMS experience for global business including learning, competency assessments and reporting 

• Design and delivery of global mandatory training modules 

- Support updates and ongoing improvement to initiatives as required 

Stakeholder management 

- Build strong relationships across our global HR teams and business leaders for effective delivery of Global HR projects  

- Support regional HR teams in development and delivery of learning  

- Relationship management with external delivery providers 

- Manage external system vendors  

Reporting

- Provide detailed reporting and intelligent insight into global HR projects  

- Monitor and understand project effectiveness providing intelligent insight into areas of focus 

Supporting global HR team operations  

- Supporting with other global HR team projects as required 

- Management of Global HR budget relevant to your projects, ensuring set up and review to ensure commercial success  

- Provide input and analysis for quarterly board cycle, highlighting impact of people initiatives  

 

The ideal candidate for this role will have: 

• Demonstrable experience of HR project management in a professional services environment  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – ability to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders and tailor communication for different audiences 

• The ability to balance needs of different stakeholders and influence where appropriate to achieve global consistency 

• The ability to manage a number of projects and processes simultaneously and prioritise effectively to meet deadlines 

• Demonstrable knowledge of LMS and HR systems 

• Experience of using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint   

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable. 

 

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Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world. 

We champion our people to succeed in both work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.  

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. 

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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