People Operations & Employee Lifecycle Specialist at Sandisk

As a People Operations & Employee Lifecycle Specialist, you will design, enable, and deliver people processes that power a high-quality, compliant, and scalable employee experience across the full employee lifecycle. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including People Business Partners, People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Total Rewards, Payroll, and Information Technology/HRIS, to translate business needs into practical workflows, eliminate manual work through automation, and drive data integrity and operational excellence. This role blends strategic people-process ownership with hands-on execution, with a particular emphasis on disciplined lifecycle operations for onboarding and offboarding/termination activities. This role is ideal for a bold, action-oriented change agent who thrives in fast-paced environments and brings strong problem-solving, systems thinking, and connector instincts. Through high-impact collaboration and delivery across the people portfolio, you will help advance our people operations processes where people leaders are empowered, teams thrive, and the employee experience is meaningfully elevated. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:  HR Operations — Employee Lifecycle Services • Design, standardize, and continuously improve end-to-end global operational processes across the employee lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, employee changes, and offboarding. • Own and ensure disciplined execution of termination processing, including manager guidance, access deprovisioning coordination, last-day logistics, exit documentation, and statutory/compliance requirements by location. • Drive continuous improvement across people operational processes using structured project and process management methodologies (e.g., Lean/Six Sigma) and maintain documentation standards to ensure lifecycle processes meet policy, regulatory, and data integrity requirements. • Identify opportunities for automation, system optimization, and AI-enabled capabilities to improve accuracy, efficiency, and scalability; partner with HR Technology to implement workflow enhancements, integrations, and reporting solutions. • Standardize documentation, training materials, and change adoption plans to ensure sustainable process execution; create process documents, training materials, and work instructions for People Operations teams and People Leaders. • Implement and monitor operational metrics, dashboards, and performance indicators to measure data quality, compliance effectiveness, service delivery, and process efficiency; use insights (ticket volume, recurring issues, employee feedback) to prioritize improvements. • Maintain clear documentation standards and audit-ready processes across all People Support; proactively identify and implement process improvements that strengthen reliability and reduce risk.Policy Operationalization & Compliance • Operationalize people policies through process workflows, approvals, and controls; partner closely with People Experience, Legal, Business People Partners, and regional stakeholders to ensure compliant execution. • Draft and revise HR policies as requested, ensuring clarity, alignment with organizational values, and consistency across global contexts; translate updates into accessible systems, guidance, and training. • Support communication and change-management efforts related to policy and organizational processes.