Global SVP, People Strategy & Operations

MorganFranklin Consulting LLC; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 285,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Highspring is seeking a Senior Vice President, People Strategy & Operations to translate business strategy into scalable people solutions that drive growth, performance, leadership effectiveness, and operational excellence.

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, this role partners with executive leadership while overseeing the People function's operational infrastructure, integrating strategy with workforce planning, talent operations, employee experience, communications, compliance, and HR

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, including senior enterprise HR operational leadership.
• Experience supporting complex, multi-business-unit, global, or high-growth organizations.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect workforce strategy to financial and operational outcomes.
• Demonstrated success leading HR operations, organizational transformation, and large-scale people initiatives.
• Experience advising executive leadership teams on organizational and workforce matters.
• Strong understanding of HR systems, analytics, compliance, payroll, and operational governance.
• Excellent communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• SHRM-SCP; HRCI SPHR, GPHR

Responsibilities

• Partner with executive leadership to align workforce strategy with business priorities, growth objectives, and organizational transformation initiatives.
• Shape and operationalize the enterprise people agenda across talent, leadership, culture, engagement, workforce capability, and organizational effectiveness.
• Drive enterprise-wide consistency while enabling flexibility across business units where appropriate.
• Lead strategic workforce planning efforts tied to capability needs, market demands, and business growth.
• Support organizational design initiatives that improve scalability, accountability, and decision-making effectiveness.
• Oversee the operational infrastructure of the People function, ensuring efficient, scalable, and compliant delivery of HR services globally.
• Establish operational standards, governance practices, metrics, and service-level expectations across the HR organization.
• Drive simplification, automation, modernization of HR processes and technologies, and adoption of self-service capabilities.
• Ensure operational readiness to support acquisitions, integrations, reorganizations, and rapid growth.
• Partner with business leaders to strengthen leadership capability, succession readiness, and enterprise thinking across the organization.
• Support the development of high-performing teams and performance-driven cultures.
• Drive integration across talent acquisition, learning and development, performance management, and career growth initiatives.
• Champion initiatives that improve employee engagement, retention, internal mobility, and workforce capability.
• Oversee enterprise employee communications and engagement strategies that reinforce culture, transparency, and alignment.
• Ensure employees have a clear understanding of organizational priorities, expectations, career opportunities, and rewards.
• Partner with leadership to strengthen trust, organizational connection, and change adoption during periods of transformation.
• Ensure compliance with employment laws, regulatory requirements, and internal governance standards across all jurisdictions.
• Partner with legal and finance leaders to mitigate workforce-related risk while enabling business agility.
• Maintain strong controls related to compensation administration, payroll, employee relations, policy management, and workforce data governance.
• Establish meaningful workforce metrics and reporting that provide executives with actionable insights and support data-driven decision-making.
• Monitor trends related to retention, productivity, engagement, hiring, workforce costs, organizational health, and leadership effectiveness.
• Use analytics to identify risks, opportunities, and operational improvements.

Skills

Executive leadership

HR strategy

Operational governance

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

HR systems

Analytics

Payroll

Compliance governance

Job description

Highspring is seeking a Senior Vice President, People Strategy & Operations to translate business strategy into scalable people solutions that drive growth, performance, leadership effectiveness, and operational excellence.

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, this role partners with executive leadership while overseeing the People function's operational infrastructure, integrating strategy with workforce planning, talent operations, employee experience, communications, compliance, and HR