Global Service Readiness & Transition Governance Lead (f/m/d)

Siemens Energy; Katowice; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Health benefits

Paid time off

Global team

Country-specific rewards

Job summary

Siemens Energy in Poland seeks a Global Service Readiness & Transition Governance Lead to define and govern transition readiness for Payroll and T&A from a service owner perspective. You will ensure readiness gates prevent disruptions and errors, and you will escalate risks to governance forums.

You will coordinate with Service Owners, SSC, regions, vendors, HR Systems and Finance to validate evidence and drive go/no-go decisions, shaping future transformations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in transition governance, service readiness, or shared services migrations.
• Experience in Payroll and Time & Attendance change delivery.
• Ability to build readiness criteria, checklists, logs and governance routines.
• Strong cross-functional coordination across regions, vendors and HR systems.

Responsibilities

• Define readiness criteria, stage gates, cutover checkpoints and hypercare governance for Payroll and T&A.
• Coordinate readiness reviews with Service Owners, SSC, regions, vendors, HR Systems, Finance and Compliance.
• Validate processes, data, controls, and escalation paths before milestones and raise risks.
• Own readiness governance for future changes including country onboarding and acquisitions.
• Coordinate post go-live stabilization and handover to steady state governance.
• Provide structured readiness reporting for Payroll and T&A governance boards.

Skills

Transition governance

Service readiness

Stakeholder management

Payroll & T&A knowledge

Global coordination

Job description

Snapshot of Your Day

As the Global Service Readiness & Transition Governance Lead you will be responsible for defining, monitoring and challenging transition readiness for Payroll and T&A from a service owner perspective. You will ensure that the transition is governed through disciplined readiness gates to avoid service disruption, payroll errors, control gaps and unclear ownership.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Define service readiness criteria, stage gates, cutover checkpoints and hypercare governance requirements for Payroll and T&A.
• Coordinate readiness reviews with Service Owners, SSC, regions, vendors, HR Systems, Finance and Compliance and maintain transition risk, dependency and action tracking from the GSO perspective.
• Validate that process, knowledge, people, controls, systems, data and escalation paths are ready before transition milestones and elevate readiness gaps and recommend go or no-go decisions to the Global Head and service governance forums.
• Own readiness governance for future major changes, service expansions, country onboarding, acquisitions and transformation waves.
• Coordinate post go-live stabilization reviews and handover from hypercare into steady state governance and support future transformation start by ensuring that change readiness is assessed before execution.
• Provide structured readiness reporting for Payroll and T&A service governance boards.
  

What You Bring

• Significant experience (5+ years) in transition governance, service readiness, shared services migration, project assurance, Payroll and Time & Attendance change delivery, or a related transformation environment.
• Ability to build and maintain practical readiness criteria, checklists, issue logs, risk registers, governance routines, and reporting mechanisms.
• Strong coordination and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple stakeholders, teams, and process areas.
• Confidence in reviewing readiness evidence, challenging assumptions, and escalating material service continuity risks when required.
• Good understanding of Payroll and Time & Attendance dependencies across processes, people, controls, systems, data, and vendors.
• Experience working in complex global organizations undergoing service transitions, operational change, or transformation initiatives.
  

Who Is Siemens Energy

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards

• Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits
• Paid Time Off and paid holidays
• Opportunity to work with a global team
• Additional rewards based on your country will be further discussed with the hiring team