Collective Agreement Implementation Lead

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Christchurch is seeking a Collective Agreement Implementation Lead to steer end-to-end employment agreement implementations. You will coordinate payroll, HR and employment relations, ensuring changes are translated into systems and processes on time and with high quality.

You will lead planning, data coordination and post-implementation reviews, building strong relations with unions and internal teams while driving continuous improvement in payroll and

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading employment agreement implementations, payroll or HR initiatives.
• Hands-on payroll or HRIS processing experience within a large organisation.
• Strong understanding of employment law, regulations and HR practices.
• Ability to plan, coordinate and monitor complex IT/payroll changes.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of collective and derived employment agreement implementations.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across payroll, HR and employment relations.
• Develop implementation plans and clarify roles and responsibilities.
• Ensure payroll reflects entitlements and data are accurate.
• Coordinate data, systems and tooling needs and perform hands-on processing.
• Establish QA, monitoring and reporting for payroll accuracy.
• Build relationships with unions and internal stakeholders.
• Provide timely advice and resolve escalated payroll/entitlement queries.
• Lead post-implementation reviews and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Maintain risk and issues registers and drive process improvements.

Skills

Payroll processing

HRIS experience

Employment law

Data analysis

Project management

Stakeholder management

Education

Tertiary qualification in Business or HR

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Visio

Word

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Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora – Christchurch, South Island

10d ago , from Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand

• Fulltime permanent position working 40 hours per week

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in theprinciples of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health systemthat serves all New Zealanders.

Are you an experienced payroll, HR or employment relationsprofessional with strong project leadership and problem-solving skills?

We are seeking a Collective Agreement Implementation Lead toprovide end-to-end leadership of employment agreement implementations across alarge and complex organisation. This is a key role responsible for ensuringchanges to employment terms and conditions are accurately translated intopayroll, HR and related systems and processes.

About the role

As the Collective Agreement Implementation Lead, you willlead the planning, coordination, implementation and monitoring of collective,individual and derived employment agreement rules.

You will work across payroll, HR, employment relations,unions and other key stakeholders to ensure implementations are deliveredaccurately on time and with a strong focus on quality and employee outcomes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leadingemployment agreement implementations from planning through topost-implementation support
• Developingimplementation plans, coordinating delivery teams and ensuring roles andresponsibilities are clearly defined
• Coordinatingkey implementation activities, meetings, communications and stakeholderengagement
• Ensuringpayroll and related systems accurately reflect employment agreemententitlements
• Identifyingand coordinating required data, systems and tools, including hands-onprocessing where required
• Establishingquality assurance, monitoring and reporting processes to support accuratepayroll and employee data
• Buildingeffective relationships with unions and key internal stakeholders
• Providingclear and timely advice and resolving escalated payroll, employmentagreement and entitlement enquiries
• Leadingpost-implementation reviews and identifying opportunities for continuousimprovement
• Maintainingrisk and issues registers and using implementation insights to improvefuture processes

About you

You will be an experienced and confident professional whocan successfully navigate complex employment agreement implementations andbuild strong relationships across a diverse organisation.

You will bring:

• Provenexperience leading employment agreement implementations, payroll, HR oremployment relations teams within a large, complex and service-drivenorganisation
• Hands-onpayroll or HRIS processing experience
• Strongpractical understanding of employment law, regulations and HR practices
• Asound understanding of the Holidays Act 2003 and its application
• Excellentdiplomacy, discretion and interpersonal skills, with the ability tofacilitate collaborative discussions and manage sensitive issues
• Strongproblem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to identifyunderlying issues and develop sustainable solutions
• Arelevant tertiary qualification in Business, Human Resources or a relateddiscipline
• Strongdata analysis and reporting skills, including proficiency with MicrosoftExcel, Word, Visio, Power BI or similar applications

It would be an advantage if you have:

• Experienceworking within the health sector or a large Government organisation
• Experienceworking with multiple collective agreements
• Knowledgeof the Parental Leave Act, KiwiSaver Act and Wages Protection Act
• Projectmanagement and/or business analysis experience

Join our team

This is an opportunity to play a key role in deliveringcomplex employment agreement changes and ensuring our people are paidaccurately and in accordance with their employment conditions.

If you are a highly organised and analytical professionalwho enjoys leading complex implementations, solving problems and workingcollaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, we would love to hear fromyou.

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuringexcellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce thatis diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand andservice our community.We welcome applications from our diverseMāori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.