About the Role
Oversee the strategy, implementation, and optimization of HR technology solutions to support organizational goals and enhance the employee experience.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day human resources activities, supporting your team to deliver quality outcomes.
- Act as escalation point for complex Workday L2/L3 cases across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Absence and Integrations.
- Manage direct escalations from Tier 1 analysts and HR/TA stakeholders on urgent or sensitive cases.
- Provide decisioning and risk management for high-impact issues affecting hiring, pay or executive populations.
- Oversee HRIS backlog prioritisation and recurring refinement forums.
- Ensure documentation and governance controls are in place.
- Provide day-to-day leadership and support to the functional HRIS team across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation and Absence.
- Act as first point of contact for complex functional or technical queries where analysts require confirmation or direction.
- Support the team in assessing requirements, options and impacts before configuration changes are made.
- Guide next steps on configuration for Change Requests (CRs) and project work, including tenant strategy (sandbox vs preview vs production).
- Help shape and validate configuration approaches to ensure they align to global design, governance standards and downstream impacts.
- Remove blockers by advising on sequencing, dependencies, testing approach and stakeholder alignment.
- Coordinate SOW preparation, internal approvals and VP signature routing via DocuSign.
- Liaise with Procurement and Legal to ensure commercial and contractual compliance.
- Maintain oversight of active AMS and project SOWs.
- Perform release impact assessment.
- Manage change gating/evidence.
- Coordinate deployment.
- Oversee post-release stabilization.
- Responsible for BAU delivery (e.g. performance review, compensation cycles and benefit enrollment events).
- Conduct Workday security/data reviews & access governance.
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure all security related requirements are fully analysed and appropriate checks and balances applied.
- Facilitate weekly team and quarterly SLT governance forums.
Requirements
- Solid human resources experience, with the ability to manage competing priorities and develop your team.
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, human resources, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Extensive experience in HR technology management, including implementation and oversight of major HR platforms e.g., Workday, SAP, Oracle.
- Strong strategic thinking skills with a proven ability to align technology with business goals.
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities, with experience managing teams and cross-functional projects.
- A commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and delivering a high-quality employee experience through technology.
- Willingness to travel as required (approximately 5%).
- Must have the legal right to work in the country where the role is based.
Skills
- Workday HRIS Operations & Governance
- Workday Integrations
- HCM
- Recruiting
- Compensation
- Absence
- HR technology management
- Strategic thinking
- Communication
- Leadership
- Team management
- Cross-functional project management
- Continuous improvement
- Innovation
- DocuSign
Location
- Dublin
- Remote (UK)
Work Type
- Office with Flex
- Remote
Experience Level
- Lead
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, human resources, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and performance related incentives
- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable
- Retirement and pension plans
- Life assurance and disability coverage
- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources
- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways
About the Company
- ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster.
- As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers.
Equal Opportunity
- ICON is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to building an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
- If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know or submit a request here.
