Senior Manager, HR Strategic Initiatives

We're recruiting a Senior Manager, HR Strategic Initiatives for our client, Awayday, a PE-backed vacation rental platform on the move.

Remote, with regular travel to brand sites. Reports to the VP of HR Strategic Initiatives.

Most HR jobs keep the machine running. This one builds it.

Awayday is 55+ brands, 1,700+ employees, 13+ states, and growing through acquisition. They give strong local operators the scale they couldn't reach alone. That runs on fast, disciplined people decisions. That's the job.

You take the HR problems nobody has scoped yet and turn them into something that ships. Not a caretaker role. A builder.

You own the initiative roadmap: pick the priority, pilot small, prove it with real numbers, then scale it across a decentralized org. No direct reports, but a real budget, a direct line to the VP of HR Strategic Initiatives, and a mandate from the top. You build the single dashboard that gives leadership one clean view of the people functions instead of ten conflicting spreadsheets. And you get on the plane to check whether your programs actually land in the field or just look good in a deck.

If you're a strategy consultant or corporate strategy operator who's tired of handing the recommendation to someone else, this is the seat where you own the outcome. Three to six years in, ready to stop advising and start building.

PE pace. Low ego, high ownership.

What you'll do

• Own the HR strategic initiative roadmap: scope ambiguous priorities into initiatives with milestones, owners, and timelines
• Run a crawl-walk-run approach: pilot small, measure impact, scale platform-wide
• Build and maintain HR metrics dashboards and scorecards across engagement, staffing, recruiting, and total cost
• Apply a structured problem-solving method (Lean, DMAIC, or whatever your firm taught you) to break complex problems into workable modules
• Manage cross-functional programs across Talent, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, and Operations
• Partner with regional HRBPs and brand presidents to drive adoption in the field

What you'll bring

• 3+ years in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or a PMO / continuous-improvement function
• MBA preferred
• A track record of taking an ambiguous problem and working backward into structured, workable pieces
• Program and project management across stakeholders you don't control
• Data analysis, dashboard, and scorecard fluency
• Formal process-improvement training a plus
• HR, human capital, or people-strategy exposure a plus, not required
• Comfort in a fast-moving, PE-backed environment

Skills: Strategic Planning, Change Management, Program Management, Data Analysis, Dashboards & Scorecards, Management Consulting, Business Process Improvement, Cross-functional Collaboration, Lean, Six Sigma

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