HR Strategy & Enablement Sr. Analyst

Inspire; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspire is seeking an HR Strategy & Enablement lead responsible for end-to-end execution of HR initiatives within our strategic framework. This role ensures intake to delivery alignment, manages dependencies, and provides visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes to keep HR work efficient and impactful.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in HR, a 4-year degree, and deep knowledge of HR practices and regulations.

Qualifications

• Strong execution and ownership mindset to drive work forward.
• Ability to coordinate across cross-functional stakeholders and manage dependencies.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into insights.
• Deep knowledge of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulations.
• Experience with large implementations and HR programs.

Responsibilities

• Own execution of HR initiatives from intake through delivery, ensuring alignment to defined priorities and outcomes.
• Drive progress by coordinating activities, managing dependencies, and ensuring follow-through on key actions.
• Maintain clear visibility into status, risks, and timelines across initiatives.
• Proactively identify and address blockers to keep work moving forward.
• Support and execute the full lifecycle of HR work through the defined framework, including intake, planning, tracking, and delivery.
• Ensure work is properly scoped, sequenced, and aligned to roadmap priorities.
• Maintain continuity and alignment as priorities evolve or shift.
• Reinforce consistent ways of working across all stages of execution.
• Support ongoing maintenance of HR roadmaps, OKRs.
• Ensure alignment between individual initiatives and broader HR priorities.
• Track and communicate changes to scope, timing, and dependencies.
• Reconcile work across HR and HR Tech initiatives to ensure consistency and alignment.
• Partner with HR COEs, HRBPs, HR Operations, and HR Tech teams to drive execution.
• Facilitate alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables across stakeholders.
• Act as a central point of coordination to ensure clarity and accountability.
• Support leaders with updates, insights, and materials to enable effective decision-making.
• Ensure adherence to defined strategy and enablement processes, standards, and frameworks.
• Maintain documentation, playbooks, and execution standards.
• Support embedding compliance and risk considerations into workflows.
• Own and maintain work tracking tools and ensure data accuracy.
• Provide timely updates and reporting on progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Develop insights that highlight trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support data-driven decision-making across initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to streamline execution and improve ways of working.
• Support adoption of consistent processes and scalable practices across HR.

Skills

Execution mindset

Cross-functional coordination

Data analysis

HR processes

MS Office proficiency

Education

4-year degree preferred

Business, HR, IT, or Operations related education preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

This position owns end-to-end execution of HR initiatives within the HR Strategy & Enablement model, ensuring work progresses from intake through delivery in alignment with priorities, timelines, and business outcomes. This role drives day-to-day coordination, maintains alignment across stakeholders, and ensures visibility into progress, risks, and dependencies—enabling HR to deliver work efficiently and consistently. Deep understanding of HR processes and technologies is critical in this role.

Responsibilities

• Own execution of HR initiatives from intake through delivery, ensuring alignment to defined priorities and outcomes
• Drive progress by coordinating activities, managing dependencies, and ensuring follow-through on key actions
• Maintain clear visibility into status, risks, and timelines across initiatives
• Proactively identify and address blockers to keep work moving forward
• Support and execute the full lifecycle of HR work through the defined framework, including intake, planning, tracking, and delivery
• Ensure work is properly scoped, sequenced, and aligned to roadmap priorities
• Maintain continuity and alignment as priorities evolve or shift
• Reinforce consistent ways of working across all stages of execution
• Support ongoing maintenance of HR roadmaps, OKRs
• Ensure alignment between individual initiatives and broader HR priorities
• Track and communicate changes to scope, timing, and dependencies
• Reconcile work across HR and HR Tech initiatives to ensure consistency and alignment
• Partner with HR COEs, HRBPs, HR Operations, and HR Tech teams to drive execution
• Facilitate alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables across stakeholders
• Act as a central point of coordination to ensure clarity and accountability
• Support leaders with updates, insights, and materials to enable effective decision-making
• Ensure adherence to defined strategy and enablement processes, standards, and frameworks
• Maintain documentation, playbooks, and execution standards
• Support embedding compliance and risk considerations into workflows
• Own and maintain work tracking tools and ensure data accuracy
• Provide timely updates and reporting on progress, risks, and outcomes
• Develop insights that highlight trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement
• Support data-driven decision-making across initiatives
• Identify opportunities to streamline execution and improve ways of working
• Support adoption of consistent processes and scalable practices across HR

Education Qualifications

• 4-year degree preferred
• Business, HR, IT, or Operations related education preferred

Experience Qualification

• 5+ years of progressive Human Resources, multiple implementations for large populations or related areas

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS Or ABILITIES

• Strong execution and ownership mindset with ability to drive work forward
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and dependencies simultaneously
• Skilled at coordinating across cross-functional stakeholders
• Detail-oriented with strong organization and follow-through
• Analytical mindset with ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Deep knowledge of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulations
• Experience with large implementations
• Strong communication skills, both technical and non-technical with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and build partnerships
• Ability to work independently, supporting numerous tasks simultaneously while meeting critical timelines
• Ability to develop executive level presentations, summaries and roadmaps
• Strong leadership skills to indirectly lead individuals or teams
• Proficiency within Microsoft Office tools
• Displays the ability to work in a fast paced, culture

Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide. We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.