HRIS Specialist – Workday Product Owner in Nottingham

Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.

Role Summary

The Workday Product Owner for a part of the Workday capabilities, with the objective of providing optimal technology support for our HR strategy, driving employee experience and improving HR efficiency and effectiveness. In working closely with the HR function, the transformation office and external partners, the role is responsible to understand, challenge and translate Workday Security and HCM business requirements into effective solutions, by combining technology capabilities with smart process design, clear roles, responsibilities and data definitions. This straddles the whole life cycle, from strategy and architecture work, proactively bringing in ideas and planning out a roadmap, over focused delivery of projects, to ensuring a proper handover to production, periodic monitoring of effective usage and compliance, as well as supporting the ongoing maintenance and evolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate HR business requirements into scalable and sustainable technology solutions within Workday Security and HCM domains.
• Lead the analysis, design, configuration, and documentation of Workday Security and HCM solutions, ensuring compliance with internal policies and best practices.
• Facilitate design and discovery workshops with stakeholders to define optimal solutions while considering platform capabilities, architectural standards, and long-term maintainability.
• Independently configure and maintain Workday functionality across the relevant domains, including supporting testing activities.
• Collaborate with internal IT teams and external vendors to deliver enhancements and issue resolution.
• Continuously monitor new Workday features and releases, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance HR processes and deliver additional value to the organization.
• Define and maintain the product roadmap for the respective Workday domain, prioritising enhancements and initiatives using agile delivery methodologies.
• Establish and enforce governance and design standards to maintain the integrity, scalability, and security of the overall Workday platform, in close collaboration with other HRIS product owners.
• Enable operational excellence by supporting the creation of training materials and knowledge articles, ensuring first-level support teams are equipped to handle common inquiries and routine maintenance tasks.
• Act as the second-level functional and technical support for the assigned Workday domains, investigating complex issues and coordinating escalations with Workday or external partners when necessary.
• Manage periodic access reviews and security audits, ensuring appropriate role-based access and segregation of duties.

Qualifications, Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, Information Technology, alternatively a strong background in Workday HCM and Security.
• Proven experience (>3 years) in Workday HCM/Security; certification is a plus.
• Solid understanding of internal control frameworks and compliance requirements (e.g., SOX) and their implications for design security, access management, and audit readiness.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into system configurations.
• Excellent project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across various teams.

If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for leveraging technology to drive HR excellence, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Join us in shaping the future of our HRIS landscape and making a meaningful impact on our organisation's success.

Xylem offers more than just “a job”. At Xylem, we embrace diversity and strive to create avenues where employees feel valued and appreciated through our DE&I initiatives and Employee Resources Groups (ERG). Xylem is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action workplace. Xylem prohibits discrimination, harassment of any kind and does not discriminate in employment based on race, colour, religion, sex or sexual orientation (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, marital status, medical conditions or disability, genetic information, age, or other non-merit factors.

Join the global Xylem team today! Xylem is a team creating advanced technology solutions to the world’s water challenges through developing new technologies and services that will improve the way water is used, conserved, and re-used in the future is central to our work. Our products and services move, treat, analyse, monitor, and return water to the environment, in public utility, industrial, residential, and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities.

Disclaimer: The information listed within this job description is designed to indicate the general nature of work expected for this position and shall not be viewed as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required in this position. Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and if requested, reasonable accommodation will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job absent undue hardship. Xylem reserves the right to modify this job description or assign other duties to this position as needed.