KPMGI - Program Manager - Global People & Digital HR

The Project Management Office (PMO) in Digital HR enables successful delivery of strategic initiatives across varied People initiatives. The team provides portfolio, program and project coordination, governance support, delivery oversight, planning and sequencing discipline, operational excellence, and standardized delivery practices that support business transformation and technology-enabled change.

Our portfolio spans business transformation, enterprise technology, operational improvement, organizational change, and vendor-supported initiatives. We collaborate across global teams, functional groups, project managers, initiative leads, and external partners to create visibility, manage dependencies, and enable delivery outcomes that advance KPMG's strategic priorities.

As Senior Program Manager within the Global People and Digital HR PMO, you will lead and coordinate the planning, and delivery of a multi-phase Global People Data Foundations program to deliver Global People MDM and Employee Central (EC) transformation program.

Main responsibility will be to manage delivery across Global People, HCM Taskforce, Global Digital and key implementation partners. This will include program initiation such as identifying key technical and business dependencies, oversee and lead planning across various stakeholder groups, leading network change impact and analysis to inform integrations, data migration and country onboarding. You will also be part of the program governance team and responsible to indicate any key deviations, changes, and risks / issues. You will also monitor the resource allocation from various stakeholder to inform stakeholders of challenges and upcoming gaps.

You will oversee various project managers to align toward our transformation goal and delivery of EC Mini Master, Full EC implementation including the foundation of concurrent employment, Global Career Architecture (GCA), position management. You will ensure alignment between business, MFs, technology, architecture, data, and downstream platform teams while maintaining focus on scope, timeline, risks, dependencies, and adoption

• Develop and maintain an integrated program roadmap covering EC Mini Master, Full EC adoption, GCA enablement, position management, data governance, and country onboarding activities.
• Lead the teams to coordinate requirements gathering and impact assessments across existing global SAP SF modules such as LMS, OpenPD and other reporting, integrations, identity management, and downstream platforms
• Oversee development and execution of POCs related to concurrent employment, position management, GPID generation, integrations, reporting impacts, and hybrid operating models.
• Arrange and plan workshops with respective leads to assess business requirements, process harmonization opportunities, and country-specific regulatory or operational needs.
• Ensure there is active tracking of resources, risks, issues and changes during the project lifecycle.
• Establish a program level meeting schedule to enable all workstreams and teams to be able to align across all phases of the project.
• Manage, track and report on budget including people effort, infrastructure and licensing.
• Ensure process and technical documentation is developed, maintained and transitioned to respective operational support teams such as documentation for future-state processes, global templates, process flows, implementation standards, and deployment approaches.
• Align with existing GIS People team to ensure there is a change management plan to ensure existing users, subscribers are aligned to overall initiative, dependencies, actions required and timeline
• Drive decisions, actions, parking lot items, assumptions, and governance forums to ensure timely closure of open topics.
• Facilitate alignment with-in global people data foundations program and other global programs

• 15+ years of program or project management experience leading large-scale SAP SuccessFactors programs or digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience managing global, multi-country implementations involving phased deployments and complex stakeholder groups.
• Proven experience delivering projects involving SAP Success Factors modules to deliver HR transformations, or enterprise platform modernization.
• Demonstrated success managing business and technical workstreams simultaneously.
• Experience overseeing third-party vendors, implementation partners, and global delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, issue resolution, and organizational change management.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Information Systems, Technology, or related discipline.
• PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent certification preferred.

Additional Information

• Gross salary between € 5.000 and € 10.000 per month depending on your work experience, variable performance based reward, a fixed expense allowance and a fixed working from home allowance per working day.
• 30 vacation days (on a full-time basis) and the option to buy more days or sell your vacation days.
• At KPMG we work hybrid, so you can work from home or at the office.
• A completely furnished home office.
• A lease car or a mobility budget.
• A laptop and iPhone.
• Choice to pick from different courses which contribute to your own personal and professional development.
• Diversity networks in the areas of pride, gender, ability, cultural diversity, and generations that regularly organize various activities to celebrate differences!
• Focus on well-being! There is a gym at the Amstelveen office or you can get a discount for a gym near your house and you get access to different health and/or vitality programs.
• ‘Together’ is one of our core values. So you can count on different social activities, like team events, drinks with colleagues and events with all your KPMG colleagues.