Senior HR Project Manager

Gallagher
Rolling Meadows, IL


Welcome to Gallagher – a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting services. With a growing team of more than 52,000 professionals worldwide, we empower businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. At Gallagher, you can build a career whether it’s with our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team. Experience The Gallagher Way, a culture fueled by shared values and a collective passion for excellence. Join one of our dynamic teams, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping Gallagher's future and unlocking unparalleled opportunities for both clients and yourself.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

Reporting to the Gallagher Global Brokerage (GGB) Compensation Leader, the Senior Project Manager, focused in Global Total Rewards, is responsible for implementing project management activities to support the divisional compensation team within Corporate HR.

How you'll make an impact

Lead project management activities to support variable or other broad-based compensation plan migrations, implementations, or large M&A integration project.

  • Create and sustain detailed, comprehensive project plans, charters, executive summaries for each project.
  • Define project’s tasks, resources, timelines, milestones, and deliverables in collaboration with collaborators and project team members.
  • Lead the project scope, goals, and objectives, considering management’s requirements and priorities.
  • Track completion and timeliness of project tasks; identify and surface risks as needed.
  • Make course corrections when needed for delays.
  • Partner with management to identify key collaborators and their role in the project including downstream impacts.
  • Engage with key partners throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Cultivate effective and professional communication and collaboration to ensure alignment and set expectations.
  • Quickly handle and resolve issues as they arise.
  • Ensure quality assurance practices are followed to ensure a professional and successful outcome.
  • Develop and deliver weekly/monthly updates on each project via status reports.
  • Provide related metrics for project achievements.

Serve as a functional liaison to project governance teams, HR, finance, and business leadership, where applicable

  • Facilitate exchange of information and deliverables between functional and management teams
  • Monitor cross-functional project work.
  • Document technical processes and procedures.
  • Present project updates to senior leadership, partners, and governance teams.
  • Stay abreast of Project Management standard processes to incorporate into work as approved.

Contribute to the creation of a Global Total Rewards Project Management Organization (PMO) to develop PMO expertise and drive efficiencies in project and portfolio management

  • Define and recommend standard processes for project and portfolio management
  • Collaborate with internal functional teams to seek opportunities for process improvement and enhanced workflow efficiency.
About You

Required:

  • Bachelor's Degree; Minimum of 7 years of experience in a Functional Project Manager PMO role, with an emphasis in Total Rewards.
  • Proficiency in PMO methodologies.
  • Prior experience establishing PMO capabilities in an organization and aligning stakeholders to best practices in project management.
  • Prior experience with HRIS and data administration project lifecycles.
  • Solid knowledge of HRIS system design.
  • Proficient in MS Office suite of applications.
  • Ability to collaborate on and manage complex, multi-team projects.

Highly Preferred:

  • PMP Certification.
  • Prior experience with operational projects in HR and Compensation and related lifecycles.
  • Prior experience leading projects to align pay practices across organizations preferred.
  • Strong proficiency in project management or PMO methodologies, tools, and techniques, including SmartSheets.
  • Ability to create and maintain detailed, comprehensive project management plans for multiple, concurrent projects.
  • Strong understanding of HR, Total Rewards or Compensation disciplines is desired.
  • Has experience with M&A functional or technical integration.
  • Has working technical knowledge of HRIS systems and unique project needs of techno-functional projects.
  • Effective communication and people skills to collaborate and present to cross-functional teams and diverse stakeholders at all organizational levels.
  • Ability to develop stakeholder presentations in a clear and concise manner. May need to develop Executive Summaries for leadership.
  • Experience navigating rapid and significant organizational change.
  • Good quantitative and critical thinking skills.

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Compensation and benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

  • Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
  • Life and accident insurance
  • 401(K) and Roth options
  • Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
  • Educational expense reimbursement
  • Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

  • Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
  • Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
  • Training programs
  • Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
  • Charitable matching gift program
  • And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

Click Here to review our U.S. Eligibility Requirements

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Posted 2025-09-16

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