People Tech EMEA Solution Owner - Pay in Bury

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms. JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019. We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry.

Role overview: Advance the People Teams impact by delivering and maintaining the configuration of a full HRIS programme aimed at positioning JD as an employer of choice. The JD People team puts the colleague at the heart of what we do to develop a level of service that emulates the JD brand and maximises colleague experience. We are looking for an outstanding Solution Owner, with experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining complex HRIS solutions. The Solution Owner will lead a small team of SMEs with a particular focus on Pay and Benefits modules. This role is both strategic and hands-on, requiring an understanding of business requirements and processes with the ability to configure system infrastructure and solutions.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Act as the lead product SME for all the Pay and Benefits related products - responsible for its design, governance, maintenance, and continuous improvements.
• Lead a team of SMEs.
• Liaise with senior stakeholders to ascertain business requirements alongside understanding business process requirements.
• Develop systemic solutions to best suit the Groups requirements.
• Foster a collaborative environment within the SME project team driving excellence from the front.
• Coordinate your team for compliance, testing, BAU change management, consistency in design, documentation management and more.
• Manage the output and schedules for the Pay Solution team, prioritising, delegating, and reporting on actions as they arise.
• Maintain an understanding of legislative requirements for all Pay and Benefits related functions.
• Work collaboratively with BAU teams to ensure procedures and system use are embedded effectively, with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Design, build and test integrations between Pay and Benefits solution and other product workstreams (e.g. Workforce Management, HR).

Skills/Experience/Knowledge:

• Previous experience in Pay/Benefits systems essential (ideally Dayforce).
• Ability to consider and evaluate solutions to problems under own initiative essential.
• Previous experience in leading and developing a team essential.
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
• Strong communication skills both written and oral.
• Confident and courteous in dealing with internal and external stakeholders.
• High level of attention to detail with strong administrative and organisational skills and be able to prioritise your own and your team’s workload.
• Must be methodical and be able to work to strict deadlines.
• Have an awareness of GDPR and be able to act with absolute discretion and confidentiality.
• Ambitious to learn with an enthusiastic approach.
• Previous experience in deploying/maintaining HRIS and Payroll solutions across multiple territories beneficial.

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff discount on JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.