Interim HR & Payroll Project Manager

Job Introduction

Are you an experienced Project Manager with a background in implementing an integrated HR and Payroll system?

About Us

Sodexo is a leading provider of catering, facility management and personal home services with a worldwide turnover of circa €17bn.  Through our family of leading brands, which includes The Good Care Group, Oxford Aunts, Prestige Nursing & Care and Comfort Keepers, we provide care to thousands of individuals across the UK and Ireland every minute of every day.    

Like many businesses which have grown through acquisition, we have a number of different HR and payroll systems across the UK and Ireland.  We plan to replace them with a single integrated solution incorporating 17 different weekly, fortnightly and monthly payrolls, using MHR’s iTrent software.

The Role

For the Sodexo Home Care division, we are currently seeking an experienced Project Manager to play a pivotal role in ensuring a complex HR & Payroll system is implemented, delivered successfully and to the agreed timescales. Working with colleagues from across the Home Care business, as well as a team of external consultants throughout all stages of the project lifecycle including discovery, design, configuration, testing, deployment and post go-live support.

You will proactively identify risks and communicate issues, ensuring the project remains on track. Excellent communication to all levels is required to help provide focus and drive to the project ensuring that all Sodexo project group members understand their contribution to the success of the project. Deliverables will be measured against a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) set within the project plan.

Other main duties include:

• Working collaboratively with colleagues from across the business, as well as MHR’s design and implementation team 

• Formulating proposals and suitable strategies for agreement via the correct channels of the project governance.

• Formulating, organising and monitoring inter-connected activities and dependencies. Coordinate cross-programme activities 

• Ensuring all workstream leads understand their role and responsibilities and take accountability for progressing all actions, risks and dependencies. 

• Ensuring the project is delivered on time, on cost and within acceptable risk. 

• Leading on resolving any higher scope issues that are raised across the programme.

• Develop project governance protocols for documentation and programme archive

• Build relationships across key stakeholder groups and ensure that mutual positive relationships are developed and maintained throughout the course of the programme

• Play a leading role in coordinating and facilitating workshops / activities across the group to ensure that project objectives are achieved.

You will be an experienced Project Manager with a proven track record of:

• Excellent project management and programme control

• Proven experience in managing HR / Payroll Systems projects

• Can manage multiple priorities effectively

• Managing complex projects including planning, monitoring, control and reporting 

• Ensuring projects are delivered to the required quality, timeframe and budget

• Identifying problems, assessing impact, and determining solutions

• Planning and managing the allocation of resources

• Ensuring that all deadlines and milestones are achieved

• Providing detailed cost reporting

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Well organised and methodical with high attention to detail

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

• Strong commercial awareness

Desirable:

• Previous MHR iTrent experience 

• PRINCE2 (or similar) qualified (or working towards a qualification) is desirable but not essential. 

Applicants must: 

• Be UK or Ireland based with right to work in both the UK and Ireland. 

• Hold a valid driving licence.

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave (includes Bank Holidays) increasing every year by 1 to the maximum of 33 days over 5 years’ service (this will be pro rata’d)

• An additional day off for your Birthday

• Cycle to Work scheme for our Head Office, Regional and Branch staff

• Work Place Pension

• Employee assistance programme (EAP) – confidential phone line and online support and resources available to you and your loved ones 24/7

• Supportive working environment with ongoing learning and development opportunities

• A friendly, agile and flexible working culture.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process