Senior HR Planning & Enablement Leader

Xcel Energy Services Inc; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Program

Medical/Pharmacy Plan

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Dependent Care FSA

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Pension

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Xcel Energy is seeking a Senior Consultant, HR Planning & Enablement to translate HR priorities into well-managed programs and measurable results. You will coordinate cross-functional workstreams, manage operating reviews, and drive portfolio visibility to support leadership decisions in a hybrid work environment.

The role focuses on designing enablement programs, measuring outcomes, and improving processes while collaborating with HRBPs, COEs, and enterprise partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Organizational Effectiveness, Project Management, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of related experience in HR, program or project management, strategy execution, operations, organizational effectiveness, consulting, analytics, finance, or continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional projects or programs from planning through implementation and follow-through.
• Experience organizing and communicating data, risks, decisions, and progress for leadership audiences.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, written communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities independently and bring structure to ambiguous work.

Responsibilities

• Manage selected HR+ES programs from definition through implementation to support timely, coordinated delivery.
• Build and maintain integrated program plans, milestones, roles, decision points, risks, dependencies, and follow-up actions.
• Coordinate stakeholders and workstreams across HRBPs, COEs, Shared Services/Operations, and other HR+ES and enterprise partners.
• Identify barriers, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention and facilitate timely resolution.
• Reinforce clear ownership and accountability for commitments and delivery.
• Manage the Monthly Operating Review (MOR) and related performance forums to provide leaders with consistent visibility to progress, performance, risks, and results.
• Coordinate inputs across HR+ES and strengthen the quality, clarity, and business relevance of insights presented.
• Connect measures and performance information across functions to highlight emerging themes, implications, and areas requiring leadership attention.
• Track decisions, commitments, risks, and follow-up actions to reinforce accountability.
• Support a consistent operating rhythm that enables leaders to move from performance insight to action.
• Maintain an integrated view of HR+ES priorities, including sponsors, owners, milestones, dependencies, risks, resource needs, financial considerations, and expected outcomes.
• Identify competing commitments, capacity constraints, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Provide visibility needed to support leadership sequencing, resource, and investment decisions.
• Partner to support budget planning, forecasting, resource management, and financial reviews.
• Connect financial and resource information to portfolio priorities and execution.
• Provide program and project management for selected HR+ES priorities requiring coordination across multiple functions.
• Connect approved organization design and effectiveness priorities to the integrated HR+ES portfolio.
• Build integrated plans and milestone views and coordinate participating HR functions and partners.
• Track dependencies, decisions, risks, resources, and commitments and coordinate implementation readiness across HR workstreams.
• Ensure the appropriate capability owner is engaged while HRBPs and business leaders retain organization design decisions.
• Partner with Workforce Planning & Analytics to translate data and performance information into clear insights.
• Leverage existing analytics products while maintaining ownership within the accountable function.

Skills

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Written communication

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Organizational Effectiveness, Project Management, or related field

Job description

Xcel Energy is seeking a Senior Consultant, HR Planning & Enablement to translate HR priorities into well-managed programs and measurable results. You will coordinate cross-functional workstreams, manage operating reviews, and drive portfolio visibility to support leadership decisions in a hybrid work environment.

The role focuses on designing enablement programs, measuring outcomes, and improving processes while collaborating with HRBPs, COEs, and enterprise partners.