Senior Manager - SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Lead, Government & Public Services

In this role you will lead SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central deliveries for UK local government, translating HR processes into standard configurations. You’ll own the design of core HR elements and manage multi-engagement workstreams from Fit-to-Standard to go-live. You’ll collaborate with HR stakeholders, guide junior consultants, and contribute to a reusable baseline for asset-backed delivery. This position sits in a market-leading HR transformation practice focused on public sector impact, using SuccessFactors to modernise payroll and HR services.

• hybrid working
• flexible working
• wellbeing support
• career development
• training opportunities
• collaborative culture

• Lead Employee Central delivery across concurrent local authority engagements from Fit-to-Standard through configuration, testing and go-live
• Own core HR design including organisational structure, position management, job architecture, workflows and permissions
• Run Fit-to-Standard workshops with HR process owners and translate statutory and policy requirements into standard configuration
• Manage the Employee Central workstream plan, effort and dependencies against the standard programme shape
• Lead and develop Employee Central consultants and quality-assure their configuration
• Contribute improvements to the reusable Employee Central baseline
• Own Employee Central elements of data migration, integration testing and user acceptance testing, and support hypercare through to BAU handover
• Produce high-quality functional specifications, design documents and end-user documentation, and contribute to client training
• Support the sales process by contributing to proposals and client presentations
• Contribute to the development of our SuccessFactors practice through knowledge sharing and thought leadership
• Stay up-to-date on the latest SuccessFactors releases and functionalities
• Provide guidance and support to team members
• Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Multiple full-cycle SuccessFactors Employee Central implementations with hands-on configuration ownership
• Experience leading a module workstream, including planning, effort management and client-facing design workshops
• UK public sector or complex multi-entity delivery experience
• Strong client-facing skills and the ability to land a standard design with senior HR stakeholders
• Experience developing and quality-assuring junior consultants

• client-facing
• strong communication
• leadership of junior staff
• SAP SuccessFactors
• Employee Central
• Workshops facilitation