S&P Global, Inc

Business Effectiveness Lead, Functional People Team and Operational Excellence

S&P Global, Inc$104K — $182K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of relevant experience in human resources or business management.
  • Strong business acumen with experience in linking people strategies to operational outcomes.
  • Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
  • Proficient in creating executive-level materials with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
  • Understanding of AI tools and their application in process improvement and productivity.
  • Collaborative approach with strong judgment and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead operating cadence for the team, clarifying priorities and accountability.
  • Drive the agenda for senior leadership, focusing on impactful projects.
  • Develop materials and agendas for meetings and updates.
  • Coordinate preparations for senior stakeholder discussions, ensuring clear communication.
  • Maintain visibility into team commitments and risks for improved execution.
  • Partner with Finance to support workforce planning and budget processes.
  • Manage cross-functional projects and translate priorities into actionable plans.

Benefits

  • Annual incentive plan eligibility.
  • Access to comprehensive S&P Global benefits.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

12

About the Role:

Overview:

As a member of the People Team, the Business Effectiveness Lead plays a critical role in driving execution, operational discipline, and strategic alignment across the Functional People Team and Operational Excellence agenda. The role reports to the SVP, Functional PeopleLeadand Operational Excellence and serves as a trusted partner. This role is accountable for orchestrating priorities, driving alignment, and leading delivery of a complex portfolio of initiatives, ensuring high-quality delivery across peopleinitiatives andoperateswith clarity, focus, and strong execution discipline in support of enterprise transformation priorities.

Responsibilities & Impact:

Operating Rhythm Support

  • Lead the end-toend operatingcadencefor the team, ensuring clarity of priorities,sequencing,and accountability.

  • Drive and shape the SVP agenda, ensuring focus on the highest impact of projects and decisions.

  • Develop and manage agendas, materials, and action tracking for leadership team meetings, functional updates, town halls, and other key forums.

  • Coordinate preparation for senior stakeholder discussions, ensuring materials are clear, concise, data-informed, and aligned to the broader People Team and business agenda.

  • Maintain visibility into team priorities and commitments, helping toidentifydependencies, risks, decisions needed, and opportunities to improve execution.

  • Partner with Finance and People stakeholders to support workforce planning, hiring governance, organizational tracking, productivity initiatives, and budget-related people processes.

  • Help connect people priorities to financial and operational planning cycles, ensuring actions are tracked and stakeholders have the information needed to maketimelydecisions.

Process Excellence and Operational Effectiveness

  • Lead or support process improvement efforts across theteam,identifyingopportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and strengthen recurring activities and deliverables.

  • Create practical tools, templates, trackers, and governance routines that improve consistency, transparency, and accountability across projects and priorities.

  • Monitor progress against key priorities and prepare updates that highlight milestones, risks, decisions, and next steps.

  • Identifyand apply AI-enabled tools and capabilities to improve team productivity, knowledge management, data synthesis, communications, and recurring processes.

Strategic Initiative Support

  • Manageand support cross-functional People Team projects, including transformation initiatives, organizationaleffectiveness, talent processes, employee experience priorities, and team enablement efforts.

  • Translate complex or ambiguous priorities into structured project plans, milestones, deliverables, and communication plans.

  • Develop executive-ready presentations, briefing documents, dashboards, and summaries that synthesize key messages, insights, and recommendations.

Compensation/Benefits Information:(This section is only applicable to US candidates)

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $ 104,435 to $ 182,604. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individuals geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications

In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan.

This role is eligible to receiveadditionalS&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click .

What were Looking for:

Basic Required Qualifications:

  • Understanding ofhuman resources principles,peopleprocesses, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness practices.

  • Strong business acumen with the ability to connect people priorities to operational, financial, and strategic outcomes.

  • Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare polished, executive-ready materials and synthesize complex information clearly.

  • Strong analytical skills, including comfort working with data from multiple sources and translating insights into recommendations.

  • Advancedproficiencyin Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint and Excel, with experience creating trackers, dashboards, presentations, and data visualizations.

  • Curiosity and practical fluency with AI tools and emerging technologies, with a focus on responsible use, productivity, and process improvement.

  • Collaborative working style withhighdegreeofjudgment, discretion, and the ability to build trust with colleagues at all levels of the organization.

  • Strong ownership mindset, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering high-quality work that improves team effectiveness and business impact.

  • High levelof confidentiality.

  • Ability tooperatein ambiguity

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience partnering with Finance, People Analytics, People Operations, or business management teams preferred.

  • Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity tools, data visualization, workflow improvement, and digital collaboration platforms preferred.

About S&P Global, Inc

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Learn more about S&P Global, Inc
Size
22,850 employees
Market Cap
$107.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.3 billion
Founded
1888
5 Year Trend
+7.9%
Revenue
$7.4 billion
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