Lead Specialist - Strategic Projects

About Aptia

Founded to shape the future of pensions, health, and insurance solutions, Aptia is a leading professional services firm dedicated to simplifying complexity for businesses and individuals. We bring together cutting-edge technology and deep industry expertise to help organisations navigate an evolving landscape with clarity and confidence.​

With a presence in the US, UK, India, and Portugal, we support over six million people and more than 1,100 clients, delivering solutions that drive efficiency, enhance financial security, and provide peace of mind.​

Our strength lies in the combination of smart technology and expert teams, ensuring that managing pensions, health, and insurance is more effective. By focusing on innovation, accessibility, and client success, we help businesses take care of their people, so they can focus on what they do best.

And we are expanding. Aptia Group is not only fueled by our investors' backing but also by our commitment to foster the growth and success of our people. At Aptia, we're investing heavily in learning and development, paving unique career paths for our colleagues.

Specialist. Responsive. Thoughtful. Our values aren't just words; they are the backbone of our business. Our team embodies our values daily, to surpass client expectations, evolve constantly and nurture genuine relationships for the long-term. 

Job requirements

We are currently looking for Lead Specialist - Strategic Projects to join our growing team. This position is a truly unique opportunity to be able to work across the entirety of the People function and other departmental areas to support the delivery of our strategic objectives. The role holder will be joining us at an exciting time and will contribute to the implementation of key strategic projects as part of the People Team. This role will have significant impact on HR’s reputation as a strategic function capable of planning ahead to pinpoint strategic issues and support successful delivery of key projects/program

This role includes implementing key initiatives against our People Plan, managing projects, supporting CPO governance and budget planning and tracking on a monthly/quarterly basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Project management to ensure seamless delivery
• Support managing CPO budgets. This includes the management of commercial contracts across the function.
• Management and reporting of the project's portfolio

General Skills

• Adept in communication and able to synthesize and frame information for different audiences in actionable ways
• Demonstrates strong analytical thinking and business acumen
• Energetic, decisive, and creative forward thinker.
• Ability to problem solve and build relationships with people at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to analyze, problem solve, and clearly communicate observations and recommendations
• Organized and self-directing- Ability to prioritize workload and self-manage projects, handle multiple tasks, and meet deadlines
• Active listening skills with the ability to articulate stakeholder positioning in actionable ways

Technical Skills

• Comfort with numbers and some experience in managing budgets
• Prior experience in managing global projects.
• Consulting experience

Experience & Qualification

• Minimum 6-8 year of experience in managing projects and delivering successful outcomes. Demonstrable success of building good relationships and partnerships with key influencers across the organization
• Strong Knowledge of advance excel, macros, smart sheet
• Strong Knowledge of data analysis
• Strong Analytical & Numerical abilities
• MBA in HR

How to apply

If you are interested in this role, then we’d love to hear from you. Please go ahead and click apply and submit your resume with appropriate contact information.

Aptia is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable work environment. At Aptia, fostering an equitable and inclusive environment for all our people to flourish is a priority. We are an equal opportunity employer and aim to attract and retain the best people without attention to age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, political affiliation, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation.

If there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process to ensure it is accessible to you, we encourage you to reach out to us.