Remote Business Analysis Manager – Workforce & Payroll

Stryker Corporation; Newbury; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Comprehensive benefits package

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Business Analysis Manager to own UKG and ADP domains across HR, payroll, and workforce management. You will partner with Global HR, Payroll, and Operations to align capabilities with business goals and ensure compliant, scalable solutions.

In this role you will drive roadmaps, lead cross-functional initiatives, and support multi-country deployments while optimizing processes and governance. A Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years’ experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional experience supporting HR, payroll, workforce management, or enterprise business systems.
• Experience managing enterprise platforms in a production environment, including enhancements, support, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements, influence stakeholders, create scalable solutions, and lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience participating in roadmap planning, release management, and feature delivery activities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage UKG and ADP functional domains, ensuring alignment with business goals and operational needs.
• Drive the workforce management and payroll technology roadmap, balancing support, enhancements, compliance requirements, and future expansion initiatives.
• Own platform roadmaps, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate across business and technical teams to deliver scalable, compliant, and efficient solutions.
• Partner with HR, Payroll, Operations, IT, and vendors to identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and optimization.
• Lead planning and prioritization of system enhancements in alignment with business priorities and available resources.
• Act as primary liaison between business and technical teams for workforce management and payroll initiatives.
• Support production countries through issue resolution, root cause analysis, enhancement delivery, and governance activities.
• Provide functional expertise for future country implementations, including solution design, testing, and transition-to-support planning.
• Collaborate across the HR technology ecosystem, including UKG, ADP, Workday, and related integrations.
• Support audits, compliance activities, and documentation requirements.
• Document requirements, configurations, testing, and operational processes to ensure long-term supportability.

Skills

Enterprise systems

Stakeholder management

Roadmap planning

Process improvement

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

HR/payroll domain experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

UKG Pro

UKG Workforce Management

ADP GlobalView

ADP Workforce Now

Workday

Azure DevOps

Job description

Stryker is seeking a Business Analysis Manager to own UKG and ADP domains across HR, payroll, and workforce management. You will partner with Global HR, Payroll, and Operations to align capabilities with business goals and ensure compliant, scalable solutions.

In this role you will drive roadmaps, lead cross-functional initiatives, and support multi-country deployments while optimizing processes and governance. A Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years’ experience are required.