[Hiring] People Relations & Enablement Policy Lifecycle Alignment Manager @American Addiction Centers

Role Description

• Lead the design, review, approval, maintenance, and retirement of people-related policies.
• Establish clear lifecycle stages, ownership, and decision rights for all policies.
• Ensure policies are current, accurate, and aligned to evolving organizational needs.
• Maintain disciplined review cycles and documentation standards.
• Align policies to our purpose & commitments.
• Align policies to enterprise governance bodies, decision frameworks, and escalation paths.
• Ensure consistency across divisions, geographies, and practice environments.
• Partner with governance forums to coordinate approvals and resolve conflicts.
• Reinforce accountability for policy ownership and adherence.
• Convert policy requirements into clear standards, procedures, and expectations.
• Ensure policies are written for usability, clarity, and real-world application.
• Reduce ambiguity by defining roles, responsibilities, and decision thresholds.
• Partner with enablement teams to ensure policies are actionable in practice.
• Facilitate collaboration across Legal, Compliance, PCBPs, Operations, and other stakeholders.
• Balance regulatory requirements with operational realities.
• Resolve competing perspectives while maintaining enterprise consistency.
• Ensure timely progression of policies through review and approval processes.
• Establish standards for policy publishing, version control, and accessibility.
• Partner with Training & Development to support effective rollout and reinforcement.
• Enable leaders and teammates to understand and apply policy expectations.
• Monitor adoption challenges and address barriers to understanding.
• Track changes in employment law, regulatory guidance, and best practices.
• Assess impact of external changes on existing policies.
• Proactively recommend policy updates to mitigate risk and ensure compliance.
• Partner with Legal and Compliance on regulatory interpretation.
• Define metrics to assess policy clarity, usage, and effectiveness.
• Analyze feedback, trends, and case data to identify gaps or misalignment.
• Use insights to drive continuous improvement of policy content and structure.
• Inform leadership of risks, inconsistencies, or opportunities for simplification.
• Identify opportunities to streamline, consolidate, or modernize policies.
• Reduce policy complexity while preserving intent and compliance.
• Promote consistency and standardization across the enterprise.
• Support the evolution from “policy as rules” to “policy as enablement.”

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of experience.
• Master’s degree preferred.

Requirements

• Typically requires 5 years of experience working in human resources, compliance, or related leadership role.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• Ability to handle complexity, agility, adaptability, strong judgement, strategic thinking, capability to scale impact, coming up with solutions.
• Communication, influence, resilience, relationship and stakeholder management, understanding the external landscape.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs.
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses.
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs.
• Educational Assistance Program.