Delivery Project Manager (HCM Payroll Implementation)

Head Resourcing Ltd; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in Edinburgh is urgently seeking a Delivery Project Manager for HCM Payroll Implementation. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience delivering complex SaaS solutions and managing projects under tight timelines. This hybrid role requires presence in Edinburgh 1-3 days per week. Strong stakeholder management skills and HCM system experience are highly desirable.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering complex SaaS solutions.
• Experience in successful project planning and management.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project plan including milestones, risks, and tasks.
• Collaborate effectively with IT, business and 3rd party teams.
• Ensure successful delivery of payroll system is completed on schedule.

Skills

Project Management experience

HCM / HR / Payroll System Implementation experience

SaaS delivery understanding

Stakeholder management and communication skills

Ability to lead delivery teams

Experience creating project plans

Vendor & 3rd party management experience

HCM experience (Workday, Dayforce, etc.)

Job description

Overview

Delivery Project Manager (HCM Payroll Implementation) needed urgently for our blue-chip client based in Edinburgh. The right candidate must have extensive demonstrable experience delivering complex SaaS solutions, ideally including HCM system implementations or Payroll System implementations alongside experience in successful project planning, management and delivery within tight timelines.

We believe the role is Outside IR35 (though this is to be confirmed) and candidates will be required to work hybrid, onsite in Edinburgh 1-3 days per week, with occasional travel to other sites in the North of Scotland.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities will include developing & maintaining the implementation & project plan including milestones, risks, dependencies, tasks, owners & timelines, collaborating effectively with IT, business and 3rd party teams & stakeholders and coordinating to ensure successful delivery of a payroll system is completed on schedule.

Qualifications / Skills

• Strong, demonstrable Project Management experience
• Previous HCM / HR / Payroll System Implementation experience
• SaaS delivery / understanding
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to challenge stakeholders and lead delivery teams
• Experience creating, owning and delivering against project plans with tight timescales
• Vendor & 3rd party management experience
• HCM (Workday, Dayforce, ADP, SuccessFactors, UKG Pro etc.) experience is highly desirable.

If interested, able to work in Edinburgh 1-3 days per week and available, please Apply Immediately!

Head Resourcing is committed to being an inclusive business where diversity is valued and celebrated. Diversity to us, includes but is not limited to educational background, socio-economic background, neurodiversity, age, marriage and civil partnership status, veteran status, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, race, and ethnicity. As such we welcome enquiries and applications from everyone. We will be happy discuss with you any workplace adjustments you need in order to be at your best during the recruitment process.