Employee Central Payroll Programme Manager (UK/I)

Contract | Flexible Daily Rate | Outside IR35 | Hybrid in Cavan Ireland | 6-12 Month contract + extension

Overview

My client is seeking an experienced HRIS Programme Manager to join its technology function ahead of a significant transformation programme.

This role will lead multiple HR technology workstreams, with a primary focus on the implementation of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP). The successful candidate will be responsible for driving the delivery of strategic HR systems initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and govern the delivery of multiple HRIS projects within a structured programme framework.
• Own the end-to-end implementation of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, ensuring delivery to scope, time, and budget.
• Ensure HR technology initiatives align with organisational strategy, HR transformation goals, and operational priorities.
• Manage programme-level dependencies, risks, and resource planning across concurrent workstreams.
• Provide clear leadership, direction, and reporting to senior stakeholders, including programme status, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Partner closely with HR, Finance, IT, and third-party vendors to define requirements, timelines, and success criteria.
• Oversee system configuration, testing cycles, data migration, parallel runs, and go-live readiness.
• Ensure payroll solutions meet all statutory, regulatory, and compliance obligations across relevant jurisdictions.
• Drive governance, change control, and quality assurance throughout the programme lifecycle.

Required Experience & Skills

• Degree in HR, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
• 5+ years’ experience in senior IT project or programme management roles.
• Demonstrable experience delivering HRIS programmes in complex or multi-entity environments.
• Strong, hands-on experience implementing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP)
  (or SAP Payroll within SuccessFactors / SAP HCM environments).
• In-depth understanding of payroll operations, statutory compliance, integrations, and data dependencies.
• Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and external system integrators.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience operating within matrixed, regional, or global organisations.

Desirable Experience

• SAP certification in Payroll, SuccessFactors, or HR modules.
• Knowledge of data privacy and GDPR considerations within HR systems.
• Formal project or programme management certification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, Agile).

Strategic Planning Lead:

A mental health provider are on the hunt for a Strategic Planning Lead to play a key role in their Operations function and hope you could be the individual their looking for!

The business is rapidly expanding to meet the demand for mental health support and this hire will need to quickly grasp the complexity of the organisation and own the end-to-end planning process to effectively deliver against contract delivery plans, waitlist expectations and revenue goals.

This role is both strategic and technical in nature so you'll need to be equally comfortable communicating and presenting to stakeholders and being commercial aware, as well as handling raw data, building data models and advising on tooling.

This role is majoratively remote, but their hopeful the successful hire will be willing to come to their London office once every couple of weeks to collaborate with other members of the ops team. Upper end of the salary banding is £75k (depending on experience), with a little wriggle room for more senior level individuals. 

Role: Strategic Planning Lead

Location: Remote, with occasional travel to their London office (fortnightly at most)

Salary: £60,000 - £75,000

For immediate consideration, please send your CV to the details provided and Zak Harvey will be in touch shortly.

Lawrence Harvey are one of the leading technology recruitment specialists in the UK. As highly competent consultants, we are consistently building on the excellent reputation that we have already established in tech recruitment. We work in partnership with our clients and candidates building a relationship through understanding so we can ensure we are always delivering to their needs. 

Lead Platform Engineer – GCP, DevOps, AI

After the launch of its flagship product, a fast-growing scale-up is expanding its engineering capability and is looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to take ownership of its cloud platform and enable rapid, secure product delivery at scale. 

This is a key leadership role within a cloud-native environment, accountable for the reliability, scalability, and security of the Google Cloud Platform estate. You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary platform function across CI/CD, networking, security, AIOps, and observability, building a robust self-service platform that empowers engineering squads and supports an ambitious technology-led transformation.

You’ll shape platform strategy, champion automation for a hugely exciting scale-up, playing an integral role in the development of future products.

Location: Hybrid with two days per week in the office in Bradford and Leeds

Salary: £85,000 to £95,000 + 15% Bonus + Benefits

To be considered:

• Proven experience leading high-performing Platform/DevOps teams, including hybrid/offshore or partner resource models.
• Over 3 years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD design and build using GitHub, Terraform or similar.
• Experience supporting microservices / API-driven architectures.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, product-led organisations with multiple stakeholders.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Platform Engineering leader who enjoys building scalable cloud foundations, driving automation and engineering standards, and enabling teams to deliver securely and efficiently.

MES Engineer (AVEVA/Wonderware)

Hybrid (ideally can commute to Allentown, PA or Cincinnati, OH)

Up to 130k base salary + 10% bonus

Must be US Citizen or Green Card Holder

I’m currently partnered with a US-based Food & Beverage Manufacturing company who are looking for an experienced AVEVA MES Engineer to join their Manufacturing Technology team on a permanent basis.

This is a hands-on position that will be responsible for designing, developing and deploying MES solutions using AVEVA Wonderware MES as well as customizing MES applications to align with the requirements of the manufacturing processes and operations across multiple locations. This person will be responsible for leading end-to-end projects, providing support/development opportunities to more junior members of the team, providing training across the business and creating documentation/training material for MES processes.

Key skills and experience:

• Demonstrable experience working with AVEVA Wonderware (3+ years) – exposure to other MES platforms is useful too
• Ideally will come from an F&B or CPG background – open to other manufacturing backgrounds
• Ability to provide mentoring and development opportunities for more junior members of the team
• Programming experience with SQL, C#, .Net, JavaScript
• Strong hands-on experience with the ability to pivot within the role based on project and solution requirements

It’s preferred that this person be a commutable distance to Allentown, PA or Cincinnati, OH - we could also consider strong candidates who would work remote with occasional travel.

Interested? Apply to this posting here or send a copy of your resume directly to m.wright@lawrenceharvey.com

MES Solutions Lead (Pharma)

Raleigh, NC

$150-170k base salary

I’m currently partnered with a US-based systems integrator who are looking for an experienced MES Solutions Lead to lead the growth of their MES business across the LifeScience & Pharma Manufacturing space.

The MES Lead will work directly with customers to understand their objectives and requirements, then actively leading on the design, development and implementation of MES solutions. This role will be joining a small, but growing, team and will have the opportunity to build-out a team of experts around them whilst expanding the customer/client base through effective business development and expansion.

Key skills & Experience:

• Demonstrable experience as an MES expert (7+ years) with the ability to effectively create and implement solutions
• Experience with PharmaSuite MES platform is ideal – it’s an added bonus if experienced with PAS-X, POMS, Syncade or Apprentice
• Business development experience – includes bringing in new business and expanding existing relationships
• Ideally come from a systems integrator, solutions or consulting background – could also consider business owners coming from the LifeSciences/Pharma space

Interested? Apply now or send a copy of your resume to m.wright@lawrenceharvey.com