HR Strategy & Enablement Sr. Analyst

This position owns end-to-end execution of HR initiatives within the HR Strategy & Enablement model, ensuring work progresses from intake through delivery in alignment with priorities, timelines, and business outcomes. This role drives day-to-day coordination, maintains alignment across stakeholders, and ensures visibility into progress, risks, and dependencies - enabling HR to deliver work efficiently and consistently.

Deep understanding of HR processes and technologies is critical in this role.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own execution of HR initiatives from intake through delivery, ensuring alignment to defined priorities and outcomes
• Drive progress by coordinating activities, managing dependencies, and ensuring follow-through on key actions
• Maintain clear visibility into status, risks, and timelines across initiatives
• Proactively identify and address blockers to keep work moving forward
•  Support and execute the full lifecycle of HR work through the defined framework, including intake, planning, tracking, and delivery
• Ensure work is properly scoped, sequenced, and aligned to roadmap priorities
• Maintain continuity and alignment as priorities evolve or shift
• Reinforce consistent ways of working across all stages of execution
• Support ongoing maintenance of HR roadmaps, OKRs
• Ensure alignment between individual initiatives and broader HR priorities
• Track and communicate changes to scope, timing, and dependencies
• Reconcile work across HR and HR Tech initiatives to ensure consistency and alignment
• Partner with HR COEs, HRBPs, HR Operations, and HR Tech teams to drive execution
• Facilitate alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables across stakeholders
• Act as a central point of coordination to ensure clarity and accountability
• Support leaders with updates, insights, and materials to enable effective decision-making
• Ensure adherence to defined strategy and enablement processes, standards, and frameworks
• Maintain documentation, playbooks, and execution standards
• Support embedding compliance and risk considerations into workflows
• Own and maintain work tracking tools and ensure data accuracy
• Provide timely updates and reporting on progress, risks, and outcomes
• Develop insights that highlight trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement
• Support data-driven decision-making across initiatives
• Identify opportunities to streamline execution and improve ways of working
• Support adoption of consistent processes and scalable practices across HR

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

• 4-year degree preferred
• Business, HR, IT, or Operations related education preferred

EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION

• 5+ years of progressive Human Resources, multiple implementations for large populations or related areas

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS or ABILITIES

• Strong execution and ownership mindset with ability to drive work forward
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and dependencies simultaneously
• Skilled at coordinating across cross-functional stakeholders
• Detail-oriented with strong organization and follow-through
• Analytical mindset with ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Deep knowledge of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulations
• Experience with large implementations
• Strong communication skills, both technical and non-technical with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and build partnerships
• Ability to work independently, supporting numerous tasks simultaneously while meeting critical timelines
• Ability to develop executive level presentations, summaries and roadmaps
• Strong leadership skills to indirectly lead individuals or teams
• Proficiency within Microsoft Office tools
• Displays the ability to work in a fast paced, culture

Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.

We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple - it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.