Senior HRIS Analyst - Fixed term Contract - 12 months in Cheltenham

Job Title: Senior HRIS Analyst - Fixed term Contract - 12 months

Location: Havant or Falmouth or Cheltenham

Location Type: Hybrid

Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/

Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi‑national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior HRIS Analyst is a hands‑on fixed term role responsible for improving the stability, effectiveness, and overall quality of Watson‑Marlow’s people systems environment. The role requires a strong grasp of HR systems, data integrity, and operational process, alongside the ability to work with pace and judgement across day‑to‑day support and longer‑term improvement activity.

The immediate priority is to help create a more reliable HR systems foundation. This includes improving system administration, strengthening data quality, tightening processes and controls, and working with HR teams to ensure people information is accurate, consistent, and trusted.

Alongside day‑to‑day system support, the role will review connectivity between HR systems and related platforms, identify improvement opportunities, and contribute informed recommendations to the development of the longer‑term HR systems roadmap.

This role will help bring greater structure, consistency, and control to the current HR systems environment while supporting practical improvements over the contract period. The role is offered on an initial 12‑month fixed‑term contract, with the possibility of extension.

Key accountabilities include

• Lead the day‑to‑day stabilisation of Watson‑Marlow’s HR systems environment, with a focus on improving reliability, user experience, and operational effectiveness.
• Improve the accuracy, consistency, and completeness of people information across HR systems, helping create a stronger foundation for reporting, analytics, and decision‑making.
• Review current HR systems processes, controls, and data flows, identifying root causes of issues and delivering practical improvements that strengthen quality and consistency.
• Provide hands‑on support for system administration, configuration, workflows, security, and routine change activity, acting as a senior specialist point of contact for complex issues.
• Coordinate HRIS issues, priorities, and improvement activity across HR, IT, Group HRIS, and external vendors, helping ensure timely resolution and clear ownership.
• Work closely with the Reward and People Analytics team to support reporting, data quality, analytics requirements, and future systems capability.
• Review connectivity between HR systems and related platforms, identifying risks, gaps, and opportunities to improve how data moves across the landscape.
• Contribute practical input to the longer‑term HR systems roadmap, drawing on current issues, dependencies, business needs, and improvement priorities.
• Document key system processes, ownership, controls, and ways of working to improve clarity, resilience, and continuity.
• Manage workload effectively across operational support and longer‑term improvement activity, using sound judgement to prioritise what matters most.

Skills/Experience

• Strong experience working in a HRIS, HR systems, or HR operations role, with a track record of improving data quality, system effectiveness, and user experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience of HR systems administration, workflows, configuration, and user support including an understanding of how HRIS platforms integrate with external applications via APIs.
• Experience working with Cornerstone Core or a comparable HR platform such as Workday, Success Factors etc.
• Good understanding of HR processes, system controls, data governance, and the importance of accurate, well‑maintained people data.
• Ability to identify issues, assess root causes, and deliver practical improvements with limited oversight.
• Confidence working with HR, IT, Group HRIS, vendors, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and move activity forward.
• Strong organisation skills, attention to detail, and a focus on data accuracy, control, and confidentiality.
• Able to work independently, manage competing priorities, and take ownership of delivery in a busy environment.
• Experience supporting integrations between HR systems and other business platforms.
• Experience supporting systems improvements, implementation activity, or roadmap planning.
• Experience working with reporting, people data, or data validation activity.
• Experience working in a multi‑site or multi‑country organisation.

At Watson‑Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• Flexible working arrangements
• Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

If you require accommodations during the application process, please let us know.