Head of Product - Global Payroll in Ruddington

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it’s for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive. By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication - all of which we pass on to our customers. MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allows you to focus on what’s most important to you—work that matters. With us, you’ll grow, find your flow, and make a lasting difference in your career, your team, and your impact.

Your Career

As Head of Product – Global Payroll, you will define and deliver the strategy for People First Global Payroll. Launching in the US and Ireland, you will build a scalable, compliant, and partner-extensible platform capable of supporting multi-country payroll through a federated network model. You will set the product vision, own the roadmap, and work closely with Engineering and Architecture to shape a robust global payroll engine. You will also lead commercial partnerships and oversee the US Legislation Product Manager to ensure compliance remains accurate, timely, and strategically aligned.

Your Team

You will lead the Global Payroll product domain, managing legislative product expertise while collaborating daily with engineering teams to ensure high-quality delivery. Working cross-functionally with Heads of Product across HR, Talent, WFM, Platform, and Pay, you will ensure payroll integrates seamlessly within the People First ecosystem. You will also partner with Compliance, Legal, Sales, and GTM to align product, regulatory, and commercial priorities.

Your Impact

You will establish MHR as a competitive global payroll provider by delivering reliable US and Ireland payroll capability and enabling international expansion. Through strong prioritisation, customer insight, and performance data, you will drive continuous improvement, scalability, and commercial growth while building a high-performance product culture.

Skills

• Global payroll product leadership experience
• Strong knowledge of payroll legislation and compliance
• Technical understanding of payroll platforms and integrations
• Commercial and partnership strategy expertise
• Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management
• Roadmap ownership and prioritisation skills
• Data-driven decision-making
• Experience developing product managers

Benefits To Support You Personally And Professionally

Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalized benefits including:

• Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
• 24/7 access to a GP through Help at Hand for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
• Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond 25 days and bank holidays
• Enhanced Family leave
• My MHRewards offering discounts at over 900 retailers
• Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
• Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
• Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
• On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
• Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage

We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment. At MHR, we’re completely committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where all voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and supported. Whatever your background, abilities and experiences, if you’re excited by this role we want to hear from you. If you require assistance for an interview, please let us know and we’ll make sure your needs are met when you arrive. If we receive an exceptionally high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than originally advertised.