MD-People & Corporation Tech

This position can be domiciled at any FedEx Freight location within the continental US. You will be required to work at a FedEx Freight location several times per week. **POSITION OVERVIEW** **:** Lead the enterprise technology strategy, delivery, and operational performance for platforms supporting Human Resources, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Security, and Corporate Functions across FedEx Freight. Serves as a senior technology leader responsible for modernizing workforce and corporate systems, improving the employee and manager experience, strengthening data governance, and ensuring continuity of critical business services. **ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:** - Recruit, mentor, develop, and evaluate a high-performing team of technology leaders, product owners, analysts, engineers, and delivery professionals - Define and own the multi-year roadmap for enterprise platforms supporting HR, payroll, timekeeping, recruiting, benefits, legal, risk, compliance, security, and corporate functions. - Establish portfolio governance, demand management, and prioritization practices that align technology investments to business value, risk reduction, regulatory needs, and operational impact. - Lead the design, implementation, modernization, integration, and ongoing operation of secure, reliable, and scalable workforce and corporate technology platforms. - Ensure continuity, performance, and resilience of critical services, including payroll, timekeeping, workforce management, legal operations, risk, compliance, and security applications. - Partner with HR, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Security, Finance, Operations, and corporate leadership to translate business needs into clear technology strategies, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes. - Own data governance, data quality, access controls, integrations, reporting enablement, and lifecycle management for sensitive employee, payroll, legal, and corporate data. - Drive employee- and manager-facing solutions that improve recruiting, onboarding, payroll, benefits administration, development, retention, self-service, and case resolution experiences. - Ensuring systems and processes comply with applicable legal, regulatory, privacy, audit, retention, and information security requirements. - Oversee vendor strategy, platform performance, contract accountability, service levels, and delivery outcomes for HCM, payroll, legal, risk, compliance, and corporate technology providers. - Champion automation, process simplification, modern SaaS capabilities, and AI-enabled productivity improvements where they improve accuracy, efficiency, compliance, and user experience. - Lead change management, adoption, communication, and training partnerships to ensure new capabilities are understood, used, and sustained by business teams and employees. - Provide executive-level communication on strategy, roadmap progress, system performance, risks, investment needs, delivery outcomes, and business value. - Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures - Perform other duties as required **Disclaimer**: This job description is general in nature and is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, essential functions and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job. **QUALIFICATIONS:** - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Human Resources, or related field or equivalent work experience; advanced degree preferred. - Ten (10) years of progressive experience leading enterprise application strategy, delivery, modernization, or operations, including five (5+) years in a senior leadership role managing cross-functional teams, enterprise platforms, vendors, and business stakeholders. - Demonstrated experience leading enterprise HR, payroll, timekeeping, legal, risk, compliance, security, and corporate technology platforms. - Experience with major enterprise platforms such as Workday, O…