Human Resource Activation Lead

Title: HR Activation Lead

Location: Burlington, MA

Schedule: Hybrid schedule- Onsite 3 days per week T,W,TH and Remote M/F

Contract Length: 6 - 12 month - with the intent to convert to full-time

Pay Rate: $64.79 - $75.35 per hour on W2

Russell Tobin is seeking a seeking an experienced HR Activation Lead to serve as the critical link between global program leadership and local market teams during a large-scale HR transformation initiative. This role will drive program activation, change enablement, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional coordination to ensure successful adoption and execution across multiple countries and business functions.

The ideal candidate is a strong HR program manager with experience supporting global HR transformations, enterprise change initiatives, and complex stakeholder environments. This individual will be responsible for facilitating communication, ensuring alignment across teams, managing risks and escalations, and driving successful program outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between global program leadership and country-level stakeholders, ensuring alignment on objectives, priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Coordinate program activation activities across multiple regions, markets, and functional teams.
• Drive change enablement efforts to support adoption of new HR processes, technologies, and operating models.
• Facilitate effective communication between global and local teams, ensuring timely information flow and issue resolution.
• Manage stakeholder engagement across HR, Payroll, Operations, IT, and business leadership teams.
• Track program progress, identify risks, and proactively escalate issues requiring leadership attention.
• Lead governance activities, including status reporting, steering committee preparation, action tracking, and meeting facilitation.
• Support deployment readiness activities, including training coordination, communications planning, and change impact assessments.
• Ensure country-specific requirements and business needs are understood and represented within the broader global program.
• Partner with project managers, workstream leads, and business stakeholders to maintain alignment and execution discipline.
• Monitor key milestones and deliverables to ensure successful implementation and adoption.
• Drive continuous communication and engagement strategies to maintain stakeholder commitment throughout the transformation lifecycle.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in HR program management, HR transformation, change management, or large-scale business transformation initiatives.
• Experience supporting global or multi-country HR programs and deployments.
• Demonstrated success coordinating cross-functional teams in complex organizational environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Experience facilitating governance processes, status reporting, and risk management activities.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and drive execution across multiple workstreams.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and project coordination skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting HR technology implementations such as Workday, SuccessFactors, UKG, Oracle HCM, or similar platforms.
• Background in change management, organizational effectiveness, or transformation programs.
• Experience working within consumer products, manufacturing, retail, or large enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with global operating models and regional deployment strategies.
• Change management certification (Prosci or similar) preferred.
• PMP, Agile, or other project management certification preferred.

Key Competencies

• HR Transformation & Program Activation
• Change Enablement & Adoption
• Stakeholder Management
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Executive Communication
• Risk & Issue Management
• Governance & Program Reporting
• Multi-Country Program Coordination
• Organizational Change Management
• Strategic Planning & Execution

Must be authorized to work in the United States

Why Join?

This role offers the chance to impact financial performance, gain exposure to strong leadership principles, and grow professionally—all with competitive pay and potential for long-term engagement.

Russell Tobin and it's affiliates offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Russell Tobin and it's affiliates are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Fair Chance Employment

Russell Tobin and it's affiliates are a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.