Equans UK & Ireland
HRIS Programme Manager
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Equans is looking for an HRIS Programme Manager to join the team on a permanent basis. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, company vehicle or allowance, bonus, and benefits package.
The role is predominately home-based with national and overseas travel required. Candidates can be based anywhere in the UK.
About the Role
The HRIS Programme Manager will lead a complex and critical portfolio of HRIS and Payroll projects to consolidate and upgrade Equans HR Systems & Payroll, simplifying and transforming processes and ways of working across Equans UK BU.
Working across HR, Finance, Shared Services, IT, and the wider business, the HRIS & Payroll Programme Manager will be responsible for the design and delivery of all the changes required to deliver the transition of HR Systems and Payroll from current systems and processes into the standard Equans HR & Payroll systems and processes and then ultimately into the new Group-wide Success Factors platform.
This is a complex programme of change which will ultimately impact approximately 13,000 employees and transform a number of critical business processes. The portfolio of projects is likely to have a significant delivery budget in excess of £5m to manage with benefits across the business plan of £10m+.
The role holder will provide both programme/project management and change management expertise but also bring significant previous experience and knowledge of delivering HRIS and Payroll migrations and transformations with knowledge of both the relevant systems, their integrations, and data migration.
The role holder will need to support the business with moving from current to future Processes and Systems, understanding their requirements whilst driving the Equans strategy focused on simplification and standardisation.
The role holder will need to manage a wide range of senior stakeholders up to Exec level, ensuring buy-in to design and delivery from both a functional and operational/divisional perspective. The role holder will also need to work closely with Group stakeholders ensuring the UK's requirements are understood and interests represented at a Global level.
What will you deliver?
- Work with a broad range of stakeholders to understand current HR and Payroll systems and processes and map out the blueprint for future processes and systems and the migration plan to achieve these.
- Present this to Senior Stakeholders, getting their buy-in to the blueprint, migration plan, and approach.
- Ability to challenge, ensuring we are simplifying and standardising aligned to our strategy and a Global design blueprint, whilst making sure UK requirements are understood and delivery plans are robust, realistic, and achievable.
- Development of robust designs and project plans, identification of risks and issues, identify and mobilise required resources, and stakeholder management.
- Liaise with PMO resources on large scale programmes to align project plans and provide reports and updates.
- Understand the impact changes have on people within the business and develop robust change and communication plans to ensure changes are understood and effectively adopted.
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What can we offer you?
On offer is a competitive salary, car or car allowance, bonus, and benefits package, which includes:
- 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
- Life Cover equivalent to 3 times annual salary
- Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
- Gym membership discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
- Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmes
- Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme
- Access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
Who are we looking for?
- Professional qualifications: Project Management qualification such as PMI / PMP / Prince2 or suitable track record in a similar role.
- Expertise in the planning and delivery of HRIS and Payroll Transformation/Change projects including project scoping and design, project planning, risk, issue, and dependency management, resource planning and forecasting, financial management, and benefits management.
- Business Case development and appraisal methods and techniques.
- Experience in the use of Change Management methodologies, frameworks, or tools for example change impact assessments and communication strategy and planning.
- Able to map processes, and through structured tools and techniques identify process improvement opportunities.
- Able to manage the development of Systems Designs including architecture, and integrations with wider satellite systems and data.
- Able to Project Manage the development of a HR and Payroll Systems blueprint setting out the transition from current to future Payroll builds and processes.
- Able to build a HR and Payroll migration plan, including the build, test, and migration from current to future Payroll and HR Systems.
- Able to identify and evaluate options, solve problems, and make rational, evidence-based decisions including difficult trade-offs.
- Ability to work under tight time constraints in an environment of high expectation and pressure.
- This role includes a DBS Basic check, therefore ability to pass is essential.
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Who are we?
Equans is a world leader in energy services with nearly 100,000 employees working in more than 50 countries, with an annual turnover of over 17 billion euros.
In the UK & Ireland, Equans is a provider of technical, FM, regeneration, and energy services – with specialist capabilities in smart buildings, green mobility, district & embedded energy, and decentralised renewables.
Equans’ 13,500 UK & Ireland employees combine these activities to help businesses, public sector organisations, and government to embrace the energy transition towards net zero, and also the digital & industrial transitions that are redesigning the way we move, work, and live.
Equans is a Bouygues group company.
What's next?
If this role is of interest to you, please click below to register, apply, and track your progress! A member of our Resourcing Team will review your application and be in touch.
As part of our commitment to better reflect the markets within which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals, and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010.
At Equans we’re committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do, should you join Equans you'll find a welcoming and open workplace where you're supported and encouraged to be your true self at work.
You'll also have access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.
The Equans Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to Equans Managers.
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