Description

About Us

Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.

About the Role

The Position

The HR Operations Team Lead would serve as the operational backbone of our human resources function. The role is designed for someone who brings a systems, process, and detail-oriented mindset. You thrive with data accuracy, systems complexity, and have a strong belief in building HR processes that allow for scalable and automated infrastructure.

This role operates with high autonomy and is critical to ensuring our HR function is accurate and reliable. You will be the team leader for our Operations analysts ensuring they have the appropriate support and mentorship necessary to process daily HR transactions. This role is an exciting opportunity for someone that desires significant ownership and visibility across the firm with generous upside growth potential. This position is located in Boston.

Primary Responsibilities

The following responsibilities are core to the role:

• Owns end-to-end HR Operational Workflows (60%) - Mentors and leads the team responsible for the execution and maintenance of well-documented, scalable processes to optimize core operations from onboarding through offboarding. This includes processing of HR transactions, maintaining high-quality employee data, proactively identifying and closing audit gaps, ensuring audit-ready processes and risk mitigation, communicates clear internal communications of system changes; ensures operational handoffs between people ops, total rewards, Finance, and talent functions are clearly defined and consistently executed; and HR records are in compliance with applicable laws or guidelines.
• Enables HR Digital Transformation: (40%) - Partnering through cross-functional collaboration with teams like our Workday Technology, payroll, and finance teams to offer recommendations and lead practical system upgrades and enhancements to drive better scale, digital automation, and system redesign. This includes supporting the design, configuration, testing, and change management of the work and implementations.

Qualifications

A successful candidate should have the following qualifications:

• 5-10 years of Human Resources Operations experience across HRIS systems, people data, and process design experience across all HR disciplines (Business Partners, GDEI, Talent Development, People Analytics)
• Proven track record of hands-on experience building / transforming HR technology processes; Workday systems experience a plus
• Positive and proactive work ethic, operating independently, highly organized, strong attention to detail, and results-oriented prioritization is a must
• Systems first growth mindset with exceptional operational judgement that approaches problems with an agile mindset to continually evolve, brings a self-starter attitude and offers new ideas to optimize our approach
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, xlookup, and building models for analysis and decision support
• Clear, confident communicator who can distill technology nuances into practical business terms
• Knowledge of global data privacy regulations, e.g. GDPR, and a respect for data integrity and confidentiality
• Culture enabler to the firm's cultural tenants of inclusivity, collaboration, accountability, and collegiality

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? That's ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds.

As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law . If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected] .

At Wellington Management, our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract, inspire and retain the best talent in our industry.We strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary, variable compensation, and benefits. The base salary range for this position is:
USD 90,000 - 180,000
This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate, and further details on salary and total compensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.

Base salary is only one component of Wellington's total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives, if eligible. In addition, we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families, and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts and commuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, back-up childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement and paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)

We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.