Job Family: JMIT
The role of the Senior Solution Specialist - HR, as part of the People Platforms team, is to provide in-depth functional development, and ongoing support and maintenance for a range of HR platforms and systems, ensuring that current and future business requirements are adding value and are fully delivered. They will also provide in depth process support to the business when scoping requirements to ensure optimal value delivery exploiting best practice solutions. The role works closely with business stakeholders and IT architecture teams to define the strategy for HR systems, building roadmaps which deliver long term value and then delivering those roadmaps through both in-house capability and strategic partners. It also works closely with People Platform Lead and other Platform Leads to ensure joined up roadmaps, designs and solutions with aligned delivery plans. Ability to plan, prepare and execute systems and other staged testing, required to confirm readiness of developed changes for release to live production environments.
Your responsibilities:
Stakeholder management & leadership
• Effectively partner with the business to understand the voice of the customers and business requirements to reflect into engineering reality
• Guiding and developing HR Functional teams in all aspects of Workday with the focus on translating technical terms into Functional/HR terminology with workable solutions.
• Challenge Change Requests presented by the HR business with viable, workable options and providing alternative solutions where appropriate.
• Drive agile working practices that unites the JMIT platform team with Business product stakeholders
Strategy & Planning
• Lead the strategy and roadmap for in scope platforms, working closely with the engineering teams, stakeholders, and business leaders to align the platform and product with the company's goals and objectives
• Define and prioritize platform features and capabilities, working with business units to ensure that the platform is responsive to customer needs and aligned to product requirements
Technical capability
• Ensure platforms are secure, scalable, and high performing, monitoring key metrics and KPIs, identifying and addressing issues, and proactively identifying opportunities to optimize performance and enhance the customer experience
• Drive configuration reviews with engineering team and suppliers by inculcating new ways of thinking to improve design, quality etc. to drive higher engineering productivity and quality while driving standardisation and modularisation
• Scope and oversee delivery of projects to implement new or enhance existing platforms, ensuring quality, supportability
• Ensure that technical debt is minimised for platforms to ensure the platform quality and performance is seamless
• Provide production L3 support to for technical incidents and requests, liaising with vendors, where needed and providing timely resolution within agreed SLA’s
Innovation
• Identify common reusable components across platforms and products to ensure greater efficiency and scalability
• Ensure optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
Culture
• Infuse a sense of ownership & pride amongst team members to deliver high quality work outputs
• Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team
• Enable a culture of continuous improvement and learning, by coaching team members and role-modelling self-development
Platform Skills (non-exhaustive)
The HR Solution Specialist will have accountability across a variety of HR platforms including but not limited to:
• Kronos time tracking
• Reward and Benefit platform providers – incumbent based on Gallagher platform
• Global Payroll – CloudPay
• Pensions Management
• Workday – as an awareness of its fundamental role in the HR landscape
• Highly experienced HRIS professional with experience across multiple full-lifecycle projects, along with ongoing application maintenance and support. 10+ years’ experience.
• Be a subject matter expert in one or more in scope HRIS platforms, or similar HRIS platforms providing the same capabilities.
• Excellent business analysis skills in a highly regulated industry e.g., chemical, manufacturing, or
• Pharmaceutical.
• Business focused; able to build strong working relationships with the HR function and across JMIT; shaping and aligning business and IT strategy.
• Experience of providing incident support and maintenance in partnership with internal IT teams and a range of suppliers.
The annual salary offered for this position: from €55,500-65,500 Annually. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. This role is also eligible to receive discretionary annual bonus that align with individual and company performance. Other rewards and benefits include the following:
• Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; hybrid way of working; health insurance from the first day of employment; employee assistance program.
• Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization Life, accidents & critical diseases insurance.
• IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contributions.
• Paid volunteering opportunities (2 days per year).
Together for a cleaner, healthier world.
Johnson Matthey, a FTSE 250 organisation, is a global leader in sustainable technologies specialising in catalysis, precious metal products, chemicals and process technology. With operations in over 30 countries, we employ more than 12,600 people. We have more 200 years of success behind us; be part of the next stage of our growth journey and help maintain our reputation as one of the most admired organisations in our field. Our unique culture and people give us competitive advantage and will ensure our success for years to come. You can be part of that success story.
At JM, an inclusive culture is integral to our values and ambitions for the future. We are committed to ensuring that everyone can bring their full self to work and thrive in their career. Welcoming everyone to JM, regardless of their unique characteristics, experiences or thoughts allows us to bring many different voices and experiences together to tackle the world's biggest challenges. Being truly inclusive means that all colleagues feel valued for their differences, views, and contributions, and feel a sense of belonging at JM.
Johnson Matthey is open for discussion on part time, job share and flexible working patterns.
Closing date for applications: This job advertisement will be posted for a minimum of 2 weeks; early application is advised.
For any queries or should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application please contact the GlobalRecruit@matthey.com.
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How to apply:
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