People Program Manager, EMEA & APAC in London, United Kingdom
About the Role: The Dow Jones People team encourages the diverse opinions, skills, and strengths of our colleagues around the world with respect and empathy when delivering work. We do this by working together for the greater good, sharing our expertise, experience, and ideas to support each other both within our team. We are uniquely positioned as a partner to our employees and businesses to develop relationships focused on both people and goals. As the People Program Manager, EMEA & APAC, you will have responsibility for running a portfolio of strategic people initiatives for the region, and contributing to the successful people service delivery model for EMEA & APAC. You will identify and implement process improvements and efficiencies to support performance and help inspire creativity. As a change agent, you will help create a new center of excellence program to focus on continuous improvement and transformation initiatives across the region, in collaboration and alignment with global systems & processes. This role will report into VP, People EMEA & APAC with a dotted line to the Director, People Strategy & Enablement in the US. You Will: Partner on a diverse variety of key strategic People projects along with supporting BAU systems issues, troubleshooting and solutions. Partner with subject matter experts from People, legal, compliance, payroll, benefits, and the business to create and implement process improvement and transformation projects across new and existing People workflows, documenting those workflows, diagnosing inefficiencies, and ensuring the completion of projects to work towards an optimized future state. Identify opportunity areas where people process management and reengineering can significantly impact efficiency, quality, and employee satisfaction. Create governance, framework, and methodology for projects and instill across the People team. Lead and/or actively participate in all aspects of assigned projects and prepare detailed program and project level plans, track milestones, results, and overall status updates. Responsible for projects from initiation through delivery including planning, schedule management, risk mitigation, and coordinating adoption rollouts. Creation of and/or leveraging on regularly scheduled meetings as forums for discussions, reporting of project status, and escalation of issues. Work with and develop strong business partnerships across Dow Jones to identify long-term strategic and short-term tactical opportunities to create greater efficiencies in Workday related People processes, systems, and resource optimization and seamless integration with employee self-service platforms. Work with region People Connect Lead to unlock WorkDay & technological tools & capabilities and functions for the region, removing mundane, monotonous, and voluminous work and automating processes where possible. Be the contact point with region, global, and Newscorp Workday and People Operations team to explore and implement functionalities for the region. Support VP in all meeting agendas, ensuring effective use of time and resources, bringing together relevant colleagues, and follow-up actions properly addressed. Proactively urge and effectively challenge VP and People colleagues to ensure time, effort, and resources are invested in relevant and impactful priorities. Work closely with region People Connect Lead to drive adoption of self-service platform through effective communication and change management. Participate, suggest, and translate HR concepts into consumable articles to increase knowledge base of self-service platform. Craft project plan to onboard and transition to outsourced service partners when identified. You Have: Experience with Workday, ServiceNow, and other HR technologies. Project management experience, strong time management and organization skills with the ability to lead multiple projects and streams of work. Manage the delivery of HR programs to meet agreed outcomes. Lead and support organizational change initiatives, ensuring that People impacts are effectively managed. Ability to liaison between business partners to coordinate project kick-offs, stakeholder meetings, and drive projects to completion. Ability to manage tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve effective results in a fast-paced, dynamic, and often ambiguous environment. Proactively drive program execution and associated scope, timeline, and resources with minimal guidance. Clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired program outcomes. Strong organizational skills with attention to detail. A willingness to work in the office at least three days each week. Experience using and maintaining multiple tools such as Canva, Sterling, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Form, and Google Sheets. Experience prioritizing multiple projects and escalate when needed. Experience working with contemporary HR Technology platforms (e.g., Workday, JIRA, ServiceNow). Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. About Us: Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile, and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS, and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates. Business Area: Dow Jones - People Job Category: Project/Program Management Union Status: Non-Union role
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About the Role: The Dow Jones People team encourages the diverse opinions, skills, and strengths of our colleagues around the world with respect and empathy when delivering work. We do this by working together for the greater good, sharing our expertise, experience, and ideas to support each other both within our team. We are uniquely positioned as a partner to our employees and businesses to develop relationships focused on both people and goals. As the People Program Manager, EMEA & APAC, you will have responsibility for running a portfolio of strategic people initiatives for the region, and contributing to the successful people service delivery model for EMEA & APAC. You will identify and implement process improvements and efficiencies to support performance and help inspire creativity. As a change agent, you will help create a new center of excellence program to focus on continuous improvement and transformation initiatives across the region, in collaboration and alignment with global systems & processes. This role will report into VP, People EMEA & APAC with a dotted line to the Director, People Strategy & Enablement in the US. You Will: Partner on a diverse variety of key strategic People projects along with supporting BAU systems issues, troubleshooting and solutions. Partner with subject matter experts from People, legal, compliance, payroll, benefits, and the business to create and implement process improvement and transformation projects across new and existing People workflows, documenting those workflows, diagnosing inefficiencies, and ensuring the completion of projects to work towards an optimized future state. Identify opportunity areas where people process management and reengineering can significantly impact efficiency, quality, and employee satisfaction. Create governance, framework, and methodology for projects and instill across the People team. Lead and/or actively participate in all aspects of assigned projects and prepare detailed program and project level plans, track milestones, results, and overall status updates. Responsible for projects from initiation through delivery including planning, schedule management, risk mitigation, and coordinating adoption rollouts. Creation of and/or leveraging on regularly scheduled meetings as forums for discussions, reporting of project status, and escalation of issues. Work with and develop strong business partnerships across Dow Jones to identify long-term strategic and short-term tactical opportunities to create greater efficiencies in Workday related People processes, systems, and resource optimization and seamless integration with employee self-service platforms. Work with region People Connect Lead to unlock WorkDay & technological tools & capabilities and functions for the region, removing mundane, monotonous, and voluminous work and automating processes where possible. Be the contact point with region, global, and Newscorp Workday and People Operations team to explore and implement functionalities for the region. Support VP in all meeting agendas, ensuring effective use of time and resources, bringing together relevant colleagues, and follow-up actions properly addressed. Proactively urge and effectively challenge VP and People colleagues to ensure time, effort, and resources are invested in relevant and impactful priorities. Work closely with region People Connect Lead to drive adoption of self-service platform through effective communication and change management. Participate, suggest, and translate HR concepts into consumable articles to increase knowledge base of self-service platform. Craft project plan to onboard and transition to outsourced service partners when identified. You Have: Experience with Workday, ServiceNow, and other HR technologies. Project management experience, strong time management and organization skills with the ability to lead multiple projects and streams of work. Manage the delivery of HR programs to meet agreed outcomes. Lead and support organizational change initiatives, ensuring that People impacts are effectively managed. Ability to liaison between business partners to coordinate project kick-offs, stakeholder meetings, and drive projects to completion. Ability to manage tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve effective results in a fast-paced, dynamic, and often ambiguous environment. Proactively drive program execution and associated scope, timeline, and resources with minimal guidance. Clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired program outcomes. Strong organizational skills with attention to detail. A willingness to work in the office at least three days each week. Experience using and maintaining multiple tools such as Canva, Sterling, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Form, and Google Sheets. Experience prioritizing multiple projects and escalate when needed. Experience working with contemporary HR Technology platforms (e.g., Workday, JIRA, ServiceNow). Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. About Us: Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile, and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS, and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates. Business Area: Dow Jones - People Job Category: Project/Program Management Union Status: Non-Union role
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