HCM Project Manager - Contract Role

Durham School Services; Warrenville (IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Durham School Services seeks an experienced Project Manager to drive the Oracle Fusion HCM implementation. You will coordinate HR and IT leads, oversee the program plan, and ensure timely delivery across all workstreams.

The role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and budgeting skills, with close collaboration to achieve go-live readiness and organizational change objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Oracle Fusion HCM implementations.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and manage budgets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integrated project plan with HR and IT Leads.
• Coordinate activities across business and technical workstreams to manage dependencies.
• Facilitate collaboration among functional, technical, and vendor teams to maintain priorities.
• Lead governance, risk, and issue management across the program.
• Oversee budget, spend tracking, and change control for scope changes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Leadership

Project coordination

Tools

Oracle Fusion HCM

PM tools

Job description

Summit School Services companies share a strong commitment to provide the highest level of transportation safety, quality transportation, outstanding customer service and positive employee relations. Our corporate headquarters, located in Warrenville, Illinois, houses the administrative and corporate support functions for the organization. Our 250+ local customer service centers (CSCs) are supported by regional operations teams located throughout North America.

The Project Manager will work in close partnership with the HR Project Lead and IT Project Lead, serving as a core member of the program leadership team responsible for successful delivery of the Oracle Fusion HCM implementation. Together, these leaders will ensure alignment between business objectives, technical requirements, project execution activities, and change management efforts across the organization. While the HR Project Lead will provide business leadership and ownership of future-state HR processes, and the IT Project Lead will oversee technical architecture, integrations, environments, security, and deployment readiness, the Project Manager will provide overall project coordination, governance, planning, risk management, and execution oversight to ensure successful delivery of the program.

Project Leadership and Delivery

• Develop and maintain the integrated project plan in partnership with the HR Project Lead and IT Project Lead.
• Coordinate activities across all business and technical workstreams to ensure dependencies are identified and managed.
• Facilitate collaboration between functional, technical, and implementation partner teams to maintain alignment on priorities, milestones, and deliverables.
• Partner with the HR Project Lead to ensure business requirements, process decisions, and organizational readiness activities remain on track.
• Partner with the IT Project Lead to coordinate technical milestones, integration activities, data conversion efforts, testing cycles, and production readiness activities.
• Lead project execution through discovery, design, configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare phases.
• Manage project scope, schedule, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decision logs.
• Manage the end-to-end implementation budget, track spend against plan, and support formal change control processes for scope expansions.

Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with the HR Project Lead and IT Project Lead to provide consistent communication and leadership across the program.
• Facilitate governance forums, steering committee meetings, and executive reviews, ensuring leadership teams have the information needed for timely decision making.
• Coordinate preparation of executive status reports, risk assessments, and project updates with HR, IT, and implementation partner leadership.
• Ensure alignment among business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and executive sponsors.

Team Development and Knowledge Transfer

• Partner with the HR Project Lead and IT Project Lead to develop internal team capabilities throughout the implementation.
• Coach project team members on project management disciplines, governance processes, issue management, and implementation best practices.
• Support functional and technical knowledge transfer efforts to ensure long-term sustainability following go-live.
• Create an environment where team members can build Oracle Fusion implementation experience while maintaining delivery quality and accountability.

Change Management and Readiness

• Collaborate with the HR Project Lead to coordinate organizational readiness, communications, training, and adoption activities.
• Coordinate with the IT Project Lead to ensure technical readiness activities support deployment and stabilization objectives.
• Help ensure business process changes, system changes, training strategies, and support models are integrated into a comprehensive readiness plan.
• Support leadership teams in preparing managers and employees for future-state processes and technologies.

Quality, Risk, and Controls

• Partner with the HR Project Lead and IT Project Lead to identify and manage cross-functional risks, dependencies, and constraints.
• Facilitate resolution of issues requiring coordination across business, technical, compliance, and operational teams.
• Ensure implementation decisions are documented, communicated, and aligned with program objectives.
• Coordinate quality assurance activities across all workstreams while supporting implementation of Oracle Advanced Controls and governance processes.

The anticipated salary for this role is 200k-239k.

Qualifications

Critical Success Factors

The Successful Candidate Will Demonstrate

• Proven ability to operate as part of a shared leadership model alongside business and technical leaders.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to align HR, IT, Operations, Finance, Payroll, Benefits, and vendor teams.
• Outstanding communication skills, including executive presentations, written communications, meeting facilitation, and issue escalation.
• A collaborative leadership style that builds trust, develops internal talent, and drives accountability.
• The ability to teach, mentor, and elevate an inexperienced project team while maintaining focus on delivery outcomes.
• Experience leading at least two Oracle Fusion HCM implementations that included the modules in scope for this program, including Core HR, Benefits, Payroll, Time and Labor, Learning and Development, Recruiting, Talent, Performance, Analytics and Reporting, and Oracle Advanced Controls.

Summit School Services has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with its policies and values, including sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. Summit School Services is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children and passengers.

We offer medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance coverage, holiday pay, and PTO accrual. Additionally, employees are able to enroll in a retirement savings plan.

At Summit School Services our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities we serve. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Summit School Services LLC’s independent subsidiaries and affiliates are an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer

The pay rate range, along with most all of the other terms and conditions of employment, vary between different sites, geographical markets, customer/ contractual terms and positions.

Company name is: Durham School Services