Project Manager, Special Projects (HR)

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Ready to lead big, bold initiatives that cut across functions, challenge the status quo, and drive real impact? Join Altera as a Project Manager focused on high-visibility, special projects that maximize the potential and engagement of every employee. We’re looking for a versatile leader who can step into a wide range of strategic HR initiatives – from simplifying core HR processes, to enabling digital experience implementations, supporting global reorganizations, and driving operational improvement projects – bringing structure, insight, change management, and momentum wherever it’s needed most. You’ll work across Talent Acquisition, HRBPs, Total Rewards, HR Operations, and more, navigating complex, cross-functional efforts that require clarity, connection, and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional HR initiatives from opportunity definition and scoping to execution, ensuring alignment, progress, accountability, and impact across domains.
• Apply consulting skills to identify opportunities, frame problems, and shape solution approaches.
• Act as a connector and integrator in a highly visible role, ensuring visibility, communication, and momentum across teams and workstreams.
• Work closely with stakeholders across departments such as IT, Finance, Legal, and Operations to deliver integrated solutions that create value for the organization.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous situations and anticipate risks, integration points, and stakeholder needs.
• Prepare transparent and data-driven updates for executive leadership and insights for HR Leadership and executive audiences.
• Facilitate smooth transitions for completed work, ensuring sustainability and ownership handoffs.
• Contribute to improving how we execute, collaborate, and lead as an HR function.

Qualifications

Required:

• 8+ years of relevant experience and a BS OR 6+ years of relevant experience and an MBA.
• 3+ years of experience in cross-functional project management activities within the technology industry.
• Strong consulting toolkit—problem framing, opportunity shaping, and effort structuring across varied HR topics.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on results and value creation.

Preferred:

• 10+ years of experience in project leadership, strategy execution, transformation, or HR consulting within a corporate environment.
• Proven ability to influence without authority, engage stakeholders at all levels, and drive alignment in matrixed settings.
• Experience working across multiple HR domains (e.g., Talent, Total Rewards, & Ops).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on clarity, influence, and insight.
• Proficiency in project collaboration and planning tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Miro, Teams).
• A collaborative, resourceful, and growth-oriented mindset that matches our team culture.

Company Information

Why Altera?

At Altera, you will be part of a culture that prizes innovation, agility, and the contributions of every team member. Your work will directly impact our ability to deliver groundbreaking products seamlessly across the globe. If you are eager to take on the challenge of guiding our products through the intricacies of global trade with finesse, we invite you to apply and join us in shaping the future of programmable logic solutions.

Job Details

Job Type: Regular Shift: Shift 1 (United Kingdom) Primary Location: London, United Kingdom (Remote) Additional Locations:

Application Instructions

• To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Posting Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.