HR Transformation Project Manager

Job Details

HR Transformation Project Manager

Location: EMEA

Line Manager’s Job Title: Director HR Transformation

Department: Human Resources

Full-time or Part-time: Full-Time

Job Type: Employee

Shift: Remote

Job Purpose

Amcor Flexibles Packaging Solutions EMEA is undertaking a significant HR transformation to build a more agile, efficient, and people-focused organization. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive that change – shaping the way the business empowers its people, optimizes processes, and delivers a consistent, high-impact employee experience across the region.

As the HR Transformation Project Manager, you will drive the transformation program that span people, process, and technology – ensuring that each initiative drives measurable improvements in efficiency, consistency, and employee experience. You will coordinate multiple workstreams and delivery networks, manage dependencies, and drive effective governance and stakeholder engagement across the HR community and HR Customers. As the central orchestrator, you’ll ensure planning, sequencing and progress, resolve issues and manage risks proactively, and provide clear, data-driven updates that enable confident, informed decisions.

This is a high-impact and visible role where your leadership will directly shape how people work, collaborate and grow. It is an opportunity to combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, contributing to meaningful change that matters to both the business and its employees.

Principal Accountabilities

Program Planning & Delivery

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of HR transformation initiatives.
• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with HR and business stakeholders.
• Develop detailed project plans, manage budgets and timelines, and track progress against milestones.
• Oversee interdependent workstreams to ensure cohesive and timely delivery.
• Use combinations of waterfall, Agile, iterative methods and approaches to enable cross network progress.
• Drive continuous improvement in project management methodologies, tools, and governance practices.

Governance, Risk & Reporting

• Establish and manage governance structures such as Steering Committees and Design Authorities.
• Identify, assess, and proactively manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating where necessary.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation, including RAID logs, trackers, measures and dashboards.
• Provide regular updates, reports, and insights to senior leadership and project sponsors.

Stakeholder & Change Management

• Partner with Leadership to define the transformation vision and success measures.
• Build high performing project teams of core members and wider network-based relationships.
• Engage regional HR teams, Centers of Excellence, and Shared Services to ensure alignment and adoption.
• Collaborate with change management and communications teams to deliver effective change plans, stakeholder and customer communications, and training initiatives.
• Influence and build trust with key stakeholders to maintain engagement and commitment.

Continuous Improvement

• Support post-implementation reviews to capture lessons learned and embed continuous improvement.
• Contribute to building a culture of operational excellence within HR.

Qualifications/Requirements

What you will bring – Mandatory

• 5-10 years of experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects or programs.
• Proven ability to lead transformation initiatives across people, process, and technology domains.
• Proficiency with project management tools such as MS Project, Monday.com, Smartsheet, or Wrike.
• Excel based RAID logs and PowerPoint governance presentations and engagement slides.
• Fluent in English, with exceptional communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills across all organizational levels.

What You Will Bring – Nice To Have

• Professional certification in project management (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile).
• Strong understanding of HR operating models, shared services, and digital HR technologies (Workday, SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM).
• Background in management consulting (e.g., Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) or experience leading enterprise transformations in large, global organizations.

You will succeed if you are…

• A strategic thinker who connects business objectives with transformational outcomes.
• Highly organized and skilled at simplifying complexity to drive clarity and execution.
• A strong communicator and collaborator, confident influencing at all levels of the organization.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity while maintaining focus on results and accountability.
• Passionate about HR innovation, technology, and creating exceptional employee experiences.
• Energized by working in a dynamic, diverse, and global environment.

About Amcor

Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualized sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries.

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