M3M3 — Senior Manager
Human Resources Senior
Senior HR roles involve strategic planning and leadership in HR functions, often requiring advanced certifications and significant experience.
What this level means
Leads multiple teams or a sub-function; sets goals and owns cross-team execution.
- Scope
- Multiple teams or a sub-function
- Autonomy
- Sets goals within functional strategy
- Complexity
- Multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs
- Impact
- Sub-function outcomes
- Decision rights
- Owns goals, budget input, and people decisions across teams
- Leadership
- Manages managers and/or several teams
- Typical experience
- 8–12 yrs
What you'd do
- Lead HR strategy development
- Direct HR policy implementation
- Oversee organizational development initiatives
- Develop HR strategies.
- Implement HR policies.
- Lead organizational development.
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Strategic HR leadership
- Policy development
- Organizational development
- Leadership
- Change management
- Advanced communication
- Crisis management
- Innovation in HR
- Strategic HR management
- Advanced HR policies
- Organizational development theories
- Leadership and management
- Change management strategies
- Crisis management in HR
- Innovation in HR practices
- Global HR trends
- Strategic HR leadership
- Advanced HR knowledge
What good looks like
- SPHR or SHRM-SCP certification
- MBA in HR preferred
- 7-10 years of HR leadership experience
Common titles
Senior Manager, Human ResourcesHuman Resources Senior ManagerSenior Manager, Talent AcquisitionTalent Acquisition Senior ManagerSenior Manager, Compensation and BenefitsCompensation and Benefits Senior ManagerSenior Manager, Learning and DevelopmentLearning and Development Senior ManagerSenior Manager, Learning and DeveloperLearning and Developer Senior ManagerSenior Manager, HR AnalyticsHR Analytics Senior ManagerHuman Resources SeniorSenior Leadership
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 11-3121.00 — Human Resources Managers
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