Project Manager, Talent Management Solutions

**Summary:** Staff designated at Dickinson Wright PLLC (“the Firm”) as Project Manager, Talent Management Solutions will advance the firm’s strategic goals by leading people-centered systems implementations and organizational initiatives. This role resides in the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) and partners closely with Human Resources, Recruiting, and IT. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities:** Essential duties and responsibilities of staff designated as Project Manager, Talent Management Solutions at the Firm include but are not limited to: 1. **Project Leadership & Execution** - Define project scope, goals, deliverables, and success metrics in collaboration with stakeholders. - Develop detailed project plans, timelines, resource allocations. - Lead cross-functional project teams, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability. - Monitor project progress and proactively manage risks, issues, and scope changes. - Maintain tools and dashboards to provide real-time visibility into project status and KPIs for stakeholders and leadership. - Ensure timely, clear communication with stakeholders at all levels, including regular status updates and executive reporting. 2. **Human Capital Systems Delivery** - Lead end-to-end project management for implementations, upgrades, and optimization of human capital systems, including performance management, compensation and succession planning, and learning management (e.g., Cornerstone). - Manage projects related to recruiting, onboarding, and attorney integration platforms (e.g., Rival), coordinating across HR, Recruiting, and IT to ensure seamless configuration and user adoption. - Partner with stakeholders to define system requirements, workflow design, testing approaches, and go-live readiness, including data migration, integrations, training, and post-launch stabilization. 3. **Organizational & Workplace Initiatives** - Lead project management for large-scale organizational transitions, including lateral group integrations, coordinating across recruiting, onboarding, technology provisioning, and operational readiness workstreams. - Serve as the project manager for office build-out and workplace transition projects, coordinating across Facilities, IT, HR, and practice leadership to meet timeline, budget, and business continuity requirements. - Develop and execute stakeholder communications plans for initiatives with high attorney visibility or firm-wide impact. 4. **Governance, Risk, and Change Management** - Establish and maintain project governance routines (steering committee cadence, decision logs, change control) scaled to initiative complexity. - Identify and manage cross-functional dependencies, sequencing constraints, and interdependencies across concurrent initiatives. - Develop and execute change management plans to drive user adoption; measure and report on adoption rates and project impact. - Maintain clear project documentation (charters, plans, testing plans, cutover plans, runbooks) to support auditability and operational handoff. - Support continuous improvement of EPMO processes, policies, and systems. **Qualifications** **, Skills and Abilities Required:** Project Manager, Talent Management Solutions must have: 1. Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Project Management, or a related field and/or a minimum of 5 years of project management experience, with a focus on a legal or professional services environment. 2. Demonstrated experience delivering human capital system implementations or upgrades (e.g., performance management, LMS, ATS/onboarding platforms), including requirements definition, testing, and go-live support. 3. Experience managing complex organizational transitions such as large lateral group integrations, office build-outs, or multi-workstream workforce programs. 4. Self-motivated with the ability to independently manage multiple priorities and deliver solutions in accordance with deadlines. 5. High degr…