Business Effectiveness Lead, Functional People Team and Operational Excellence

# **About the Role:** **Grade Level (for internal use):** 12 **About the Role:** **Overview**: As a member of the People Team, the Business Effectiveness Lead plays a critical role in driving execution, operational discipline, and strategic alignment across the Functional People Team and Operational Excellence agenda. The role reports to the SVP, Functional People Lead and Operational Excellence and serves as a trusted partner. This role is accountable for orchestrating priorities, driving alignment, and leading delivery of a complex portfolio of initiatives, ensuring high-quality delivery across people initiatives and operates with clarity, focus, and strong execution discipline in support of enterprise transformation priorities. **Responsibilities & Impact:** *Operating Rhythm Support* - Lead the end- to–end operating cadence for the team, ensuring clarity of priorities, sequencing, and accountability. - Drive and shape the SVP agenda, ensuring focus on the highest impact of projects and decisions. - Develop and manage agendas, materials, and action tracking for leadership team meetings, functional updates, town halls, and other key forums. - Coordinate preparation for senior stakeholder discussions, ensuring materials are clear, concise, data-informed, and aligned to the broader People Team and business agenda. - Maintain visibility into team priorities and commitments, helping to identify dependencies, risks, decisions needed, and opportunities to improve execution. - Partner with Finance and People stakeholders to support workforce planning, hiring governance, organizational tracking, productivity initiatives, and budget-related people processes. - Help connect people priorities to financial and operational planning cycles, ensuring actions are tracked and stakeholders have the information needed to make timely decisions. *Process Excellence and Operational Effectiveness* - Lead or support process improvement efforts across the team, identifying opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and strengthen recurring activities and deliverables. - Create practical tools, templates, trackers, and governance routines that improve consistency, transparency, and accountability across projects and priorities. - Monitor progress against key priorities and prepare updates that highlight milestones, risks, decisions, and next steps. - Identify and apply AI-enabled tools and capabilities to improve team productivity, knowledge management, data synthesis, communications, and recurring processes. *Strategic Initiative Support* - Manage and support cross-functional People Team projects, including transformation initiatives, organizational effectiveness, talent processes, employee experience priorities, and team enablement efforts. - Translate complex or ambiguous priorities into structured project plans, milestones, deliverables, and communication plans. - Develop executive-ready presentations, briefing documents, dashboards, and summaries that synthesize key messages, insights, and recommendations. **Compensation/Benefits Information:** (This section is only applicable to US candidates) S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $ 104,435 to $ 182,604. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click [here](https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries). **What we're Looking for:** **Basic Required Qualifications:** - Understanding of human resources principles, people processes, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness practices. - Strong business acumen with the ability to connect people priorities to operational, financial, and strategic outcome…