Sage People Consultant in Manchester

To support the consultancy and services delivery at Phase 3 by supporting projects and initiatives led by the consultancy team, ensuring effective and excellent delivery. Consultants take the lead on technical delivery, supported by Project Managers and Lead Consultants.

Contribution to Business Growth & Development

• Ensure personal contribution is extremely effective and of high quality.
• Identify potential for further sales/upselling to current clients.
• Ensure any risks or issues are raised with line manager.

Key Responsibilities

This list is indicative and not exhaustive – our organisation is developing rapidly. The HR Systems Consultancy team will work together to cover the holistic Phase 3 client service, such that each post-holder is unlikely to be required to deliver all in scope:

• Work alongside Lead Consultants to lead client meetings to explore consultancy requirements and discuss scope.
• Work with Project Managers to devise and deliver against project initiation documentation and project plans and support the consultancy team based on those documented requirements.
• Offer advice about configuration options and impact – directly to clients and to own team as well as leading on discussions regarding interfaces with other products.
• Manage both internal quality assurance testing and advising on user acceptance testing with responsibility for the testing plans.
• Undertake new client onboarding calls and support the Customer Success Manager with the delivery of managed services to clients.
• Apply knowledge and training (both formal and on-the-job) to deliver consultancy requirements against the project plan for a portfolio of clients.
• (Initially) Undertake fully supported training in one or more HRIS to which Phase 3 is committed to supporting for our clients and partner organisations.
• Provide team expertise in specialist configuration areas, with an expectation to own technical delivery of the full implementation cycle.
• Manage workloads of yourself and your Assistant Consultants, ensuring clients' projects are delivered to a high standard.
• Use reporting tools to create, edit and burst/schedule analytics suites to client organisations – understand analytical concepts and business intelligence possibilities.
• Assist clients to plan for, prepare and cleanse data prior to migration between systems.
• Undertake and own appropriate test scripts, carry out internal quality assurance testing and advise on user acceptance testing.
• Deliver end-user training to the client – including writing training content and materials. This may be onsite at client offices, on Phase 3 premises or offered remotely.
• Document all configuration work, complying with change control procedures and requirements for system documentation.
• Manage the Phase 3 compliance for client and partner timesheet and activity recording – to precise weekly deadlines and with absolute accuracy.
• Participate in client user group meetings and team learning and development events, sharing and acquiring holistic HR systems market knowledge and industry updates.
• Participate in social media activity and networking to engage with the client network and nationwide industry developments.
• Support the development of your colleagues through training and coaching.
• Any other activity commensurate with the role of Consultant.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and understanding of Human Resources and Payroll.
• Experience of HRIS configuration or systems administration with an appetite to learn.
• Confident experience with Sage People software.
• Contextual awareness, particularly of HR and the role of systems and payroll teams, ideally in more than one sector.
• Familiarity with at least one HRIS product.
• Understanding of project life-cycle and methods.
• Communicative fluency, both verbal and in documentation.
• Strong analytical thinking and openness to learning.
• Ability and willingness to travel within the UK for up to 50% of working time (and not outside of the Monday to Friday week).

Add extra value to your application with experience of:

• CoreHR, iTrent, ResourceLink, Salesforce, Fairsail (now Sage People), Sage, SAP, Unit 4, Business Objects, Cognos, SQL reporting (or legacy equivalents).

Benefits

• Unlimited paid leave (subject to our Annual Leave Policy).
• Bi-annual salary & bonus reviews.
• Fully flexible work schedule.
• Modern office in Manchester's Northern Quarter.
• Access to Perkbox for regular employee discounts.
• 24/7 access to virtual GP appointments via Doctor Care Anywhere.
• Regular team events and social nights.
• Development time and funding.
• Regular gifts and perks from Phase 3 to reward outstanding achievements, new members to your family, house moves and big birthdays.
• Access to up to £2,500 worth of home office equipment.
• And many more!

Phase 3 is a Disability Confident employer and we endeavour to recruit from the widest possible pool of suitable candidates. The format of the interview will be - questions based on your experience and the requirements of the role. If you require any adjustments or special arrangements to be made to our application process on account of disability please let us know in advance.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales

Industries: Business Consulting and Services