Lead HR Shared Services Spec

Children's National Medical Center; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 32,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Generous PTO

401(k) plan

Life insurance

AD&D coverage

Long-term disability

Tuition assistance

Fitness resources

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Children's National Hospital in Silver Spring, MD, seeks an HR Shared Services Lead to manage a high-performing team and be the primary contact for HR transactional inquiries and HR system support. You will drive process improvements, monitor quality, and partner with HRIS for system enhancements.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree, 6+ years of HRIS/HRSS experience, and strong communication and leadership skills to deliver world-class customer service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience is required.
• 6 years related business experience, HRIS/HRSS call center experience expected.
• Strong communication, detail orientation, and teamwork needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the HR Shared Services team to deliver high-quality service.
• Serve as SME for HR transaction inquiries and HR system support.
• Monitor transaction quality and drive process improvements.
• Collaborate with Payroll and HRIS to resolve data integrity issues.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Customer service

Problem solving

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PeopleSoft HR

Cerner

MS Office

Job description

1 Inventa PlaceSilver Spring, MD 20910

Kids Are Our Everything.

Department

10043 HRIS

Pay Range

$73,195.20 - $121,971.20

Lead and support a high-performing HR Shared Services team dedicated to delivering exceptional customer service and operational excellence. As the primary point of contact for HR transactional inquiries and HR system support, this role serves as a subject matter expert, ensuring timely resolution of employee and manager requests. The HR Shared Services Lead drives process improvements, monitors transaction quality, provides team guidance and coaching, and partners with HRIS to enhance system functionality and service delivery. This position requires strong critical thinking, communication, leadership, and customer-focused problem-solving skills.The HR Shared Service Lead will coordinate and manage the HRSS team. Lead role is the primary point of contact for customers seeking assistance with PeopleSoft HR module related transactional issues. Utilizes knowledge of the standards of operations and of the tools necessary to monitor HR transaction quality and reports results. Serves as the Subject Matter Expert for HR transaction inquiries. May recommend system functionality enhancements or team productivity improvements. Provides guidance to other HRIS and HRSS staff to ensure that a consistent and positive customer experience is being projected and that inquiries are being resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible. This position will require a high degree of critical thinking combined with exceptional oral and written skills and a high focus on providing a world-class customer experience to employees.

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree (Required) Or Equivalent Work Experience

Minimum Work Experience

6 years related business experience (Required) And HRIS Systems and HRSS call center experience And Strong working knowledge of MS Office - including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Required Skills/Knowledge

Strong attention to details and dedication to identify areas of strength and opportunity

Strong communication skills, organizational and negotiation skills

Ability to identify changes needed to better the process and support the HRIS and HRSS Team

Utilizes judgment, diplomacy, and collaboration skills to interact positively and communicate appropriately with team members, management, stakeholders and customers

Ability to independently research and respond to technical questions and issues

Ability to combine technical knowledge with an understanding of expectations to offer creative solutions to complex problems in a practical, timely and efficient manner

Strong consulting skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team leader and member

Functional Accountabilities

Technical

• Maintains a broad base of technical skills to diagnose and resolve HR Shared Services transactional issues while displaying excellent interpersonal skills.
• Reviews requests to ensure all required information is available to enter into the HR System of Record (SOR) in accordance with established policies and business processes of Children's National Hospital and its affiliates.
• Monitors HR Shared Services inbox queue to ensure service level agreements are maintained.
• Conducts and reports audit results by measuring HRIS's accuracy.
• Collaborates with Payroll and HR Shared Services to resolve data integrity issues where necessary.
• Works with Cerner to resolves situations identified by the HR Shared Services Call Center personnel.
• Member of a cross functional Performance Management HR Coordinator team that researches, resolves, assists employees and managers with the Performance Management Process Cycles to include reporting metrics.

Data Management and Reporting

• Run reports and respond to data requests and create reports as needed; provide data analysis.
• Research data entry issues and respond appropriately to resolve.
• Ensure integrity and security of employee data.

Process Improvement

• Generates and validates canned and ad-hoc reports to help improve operational outcomes.
• Creates dashboards to organize, analyze and interpret data from the call center database that provide pertinent information to and answers questions from management.
• Assists HRIS Leadership with establishing and improving defined business processes to meet production and performance goals.
• Collaborates with HR seniors to research, collect and process information for projects.
• Creates suggestions for additional or changes to existing knowledge and process documents.

Lead and Guide

• Coach and mentor a high performing team to enable them to do their best work and support their development.
• Trains and mentors less experienced staff on processes and procedures.
• Provide guidance and serve as a resource and mentor to other HRSS Team members
• Create a positive work environment that encourages others' ideas and opinions.

Benefits That Support You:

• Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, prescription, infertility, and transgender health services.
• Generous paid time off, including vacation accrual from day one, sick leave, holidays, and a personal day.
• Financial wellness support, including a 401(k) plan and healthcare and dependent care spending accounts.
• Employer-paid life, AD&D, and long-term disability coverage, with optional supplemental plans.
• Additional perks, including tuition assistance, fitness resources, employee assistance, commuter benefits, and more.

Why Join Us:

• Nationally Recognized Excellence - Consistently ranked among the Top 10 Children's Hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
• Leading Pediatric Care - One of the largest and most comprehensive children's hospitals in the country, offering nationally ranked specialties and cutting-edge treatments.
• Innovation & Research - A premier academic medical center with a strong commitment to pediatric research, education, and advancing the future of child health.
• Mission-Driven Culture - Dedicated to providing family-centered care while fostering a collaborative, supportive environment for clinical teams.

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children's National believes an individual's base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children's National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual's combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children's National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The "Know Your Rights" poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here:Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a "drug-free" work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.