Global Process Owner - Time Management

The Global Process Owner (“GPO”) for Time and Attendance is responsible for overseeing and optimizing time management policies and processes across multiple regions and departments on a global scale. This leadership role ensures that processes are standardized, efficient, and aligned with the company's strategic goals. The GPO will drive continuous improvement initiatives, implement best practices, and maintain compliance with international regulations. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to manage the end-to-end process, implement technology solutions, and ensure consistent quality and performance across all regions. The GPO plays a critical role in enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and improving the overall business process experience for both internal stakeholders and customers.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Initiates process and system changes and enhancements; works with the operations teams and other cross-functional business partners to prioritize process and system improvement initiatives impacting the global time and attendance process, including planning, and managing the overall project roadmap.
• Drive improvements and establish best-in-class processes for global time and attendance and related programs which meet jurisdictional compliance requirements, delivers outstanding employee experience, and enables our global expansion programs.
• Draft the current “as-is” and “to-be” business process, business requirements, and use cases in the business case requirements document; signs off on the final business case; approves cross-functional business requirements that impact the global time and attendance process.
• Build and maintain a relationship with key stakeholders both within Finance, HR and other related business units, and continuously optimize the service delivery and leadership model.
• Prior to deploying new processes and significant system enhancements, confirms business readiness of the global time and attendance operations team; as needed, communicates process and system changes to the extended user community.
• Continuously partner with the HRIT, Benefits, Finance and other related organizations to ensure that the end-to-end time and attendance input and output processes are optimized.
• Communicate the priorities, partner requirements and sequential steps in operationalizing the global time and attendance transformation roadmap and ensuring alignment across the organization.
• Develop policies and strategies for global time and attendance that enable centralized and simplified processes.
• Partner with HR Ops team to define and govern time and attendance policies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, Finance, and operations, to ensure seamless system implementation and functionality of new systems.
• Develop global time and attendance Improvement roadmap with prioritization and impact.
• Establishes framework, structure, and processes to stabilize and sustain outcomes and delivery post-launch, collaborating with and gaining cross-functional partnership to enable and drive ownership of execution by respective teams.

CANDIDATE PROFILE:

• Proven experience in payroll operations in a global organization.
• Experience with SAP, Workday, ADP payroll platforms, or other payroll and time management systems.
• Expertise in the end-to-end global payroll process, global time management processes and a high level of understanding of general business operations and internal control concepts; ability to assess and provide input into impact of a business process / system change.
• Ability to collaborate and gain input yet operate autonomously to make decisions in the gray space, taking calculated risk.
• Strong understanding of payroll, time and attendance, and employee data management processes.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Diplomacy and tact in navigating sensitive and confidential situations.
• Influence to bring expertise and translate technical details to non-technical users or stakeholders of the systems.

COMPANY:

At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.

Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With 12,400 employees around the world and more than $5 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufacturers, food service businesses and consumers.

While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 50 locations in 27 countries and 135 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America with recognized brands including Kamis and Galeo.

At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion, and collaboration based on the highest ethical values.

TO APPLY:

Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies. McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.