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Job Description:
What You’ll Do:
Why You’ll Love This Role:
Minimum Qualifications:
Additional Considerations:
We’re looking for a Workforce Scheduling Solution Manager to oversee the delivery of Project Flex, a 3-year initiative to modernize scheduling for hourly employees across all North American manufacturing plants (US, Canada, Mexico). This role acts as a critical conduit between business, Human Resources (HR), and Digital & Technology (D&T), ensuring the right people and processes are in place for a smooth, timely implementation. This is a new position, reporting to the Project Flex leadership team, with remote flexibility and moderate travel (~25%) to manufacturing sites as needed.
What You’ll Do:
- Serve as the oversight lead for scheduling software implementation, ensuring all waves of Project Flex meet success criteria.
- Act as the bridge between HR, Supply Chain, and D&T, coordinating cross-functional teams and aligning stakeholders.
- Ensure the right participants are involved in each discussion—technical, operational, or HR-related.
- Seek to understand business pain points and opportunities and ensure these are translated into actionable, innovative solution recommendations and technical specifications
- Maintain project health: track timelines, budgets, risks, and vendor deliverables.
- Support knowledge transfer from the current consultant and ensure smooth operational support post-launch.
- Build and maintain relationships across HR, supply chain, and D&T to foster adoption, consistency, and efficiency.
Why You’ll Love This Role:
- Opportunity to shape a key digital transformation in workforce scheduling across all North American plants.
- Collaborate with multiple business functions and a diverse, high-impact project team.
- Play a pivotal role in improving employee flexibility and operational efficiency.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in HR or Workforce Management implementations, ideally with scheduling or time & attendance systems.
- Strong project management and influencing skills—able to coordinate multiple stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
- Experience with workforce management platforms.
- Ability to manage complex, cross-functional initiatives, including vendor partnerships.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in HR, Supply Chain, or Manufacturing environments is highly preferred.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% for site visits and project meetings.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree or PMP/SCRUM certification.
- Prior experience in large-scale HR technology implementations.
- Background in CPG, manufacturing, or supply chain systems.
Additional Considerations:
- Please note this role includes ~25% travel within the US
- International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. General Mills will not sponsor applicants for a U.S. work visa.
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.