HR Transformation Lead — Change & Adoption

Nominet; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early Finish Friday

Annual leave 30 days + holidays

Private healthcare (Bupa)

Pension scheme

EV on-site charging points

Rewards platform with discounts

Medicash discounts

Job summary

Nominet, a world-leading domain name registry, is recruiting a HR Transformation Lead to drive the people change and implementation for the HR and Payroll transformation. You will shape, build and deliver the plan, ensuring readiness and confident use from go-live.

You’ll work with HR Operations, Payroll, Technology, Security, and the supplier to implement future ways of working, manage risks, and secure a smooth adoption and life after go-live.

Qualifications

• Strong experience leading HRIS and payroll implementation, adoption or change activity, ideally within SaaS platforms.
• Able to translate complex programme activity into clear, practical plans, communications, training and guidance for different user groups.
• Confident working across multiple stakeholders, including HR, Payroll, Technology, Security, supplier teams, managers and senior sponsors.
• Strong planning, organisation and delivery discipline, with the ability to manage dependencies, risks, issues and competing priorities.
• Clear, engaging communicator who can build trust, bring people with them and support behavioural change through practical, human-centred adoption activity.
• Proven ability to drive behavioural change, not just system adoption, by influencing stakeholders, addressing resistance and embedding new habits and ways of working across different user groups.
• Comfortable working with digitally enabled tools, including AI-assisted functionality, with a practical understanding of automation, responsible adoption, data protection, security and ethical use.
• Experience supporting HRIS, payroll, ATS, LMS or broader employee lifecycle technology implementation.
• Understanding of HR operations, employee lifecycle processes, manager self-service or digital HR service delivery.
• Experience working with external implementation partners or SaaS technology vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead the people change and implementation activity for Nominet’s HR and Payroll transformation.
• Build clear implementation and change plans covering stakeholder engagement, communications, training, operational readiness, cutover support and adoption.
• Coordinate testing, data readiness, training materials, manager guidance and self-service content so the new HRIS launches with clear processes and ownership.
• Monitor adoption, risks, issues and feedback during implementation and hyper care, and use insights to improve user experience and benefits realisation.
• Identify AI-enabled functionality and automation opportunities to simplify HR processes and strengthen data-driven decision making.

Job description

Nominet, a world-leading domain name registry, is recruiting a HR Transformation Lead to drive the people change and implementation for the HR and Payroll transformation. You will shape, build and deliver the plan, ensuring readiness and confident use from go-live.

You’ll work with HR Operations, Payroll, Technology, Security, and the supplier to implement future ways of working, manage risks, and secure a smooth adoption and life after go-live.