HR Project Manager (6 months FTC)

Role Summary:

This role contributes to wider business objectives by driving end-to-end HR due diligence, target operating model design in partnership with the IT senior leadership team and workstreams. This includes keeping a watching brief on the setup and partnership with contractor/vendor tracking, and tight change management practices ahead of a planned September 2026 go live date of the project. By managing critical data structures and organisational system changes across Workday, this position positively impacts the business future strategy and vision.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operating Model Design & Advisory: Partner directly with internal transformation leads and the external architecture team to advise on and finalise upcoming organisational model structures with the IT Senior Leadership Workstream leaders. Help establish defined roles, responsibilities, and clear RACI matrices in partnership with IT leadership and Project team members. Provide active advisory support and run coaching sessions.
• Talent Mapping & Performance Governance: Execute a rigorous data-driven talent mapping exercise. Enforce clear distinctions between model-driven upskilling requirements and pre-existing underperformance, ensuring any active Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) are handled separately as standard Business-As-Usual (BAU). 
• Change Management & Information Control: Collaborate closely with the Project’s Communications Manager and project leads to author, update, and govern the comprehensive employee change FAQ framework. Manage information flow to ensure communication timelines are tightly maintained within the IT leadership team with confidentiality. Ensure all change messaging clarifies the business strategy and vision while the day-to-day ways of working and expectations are shifting. Represent People Workstream in the daily, weekly and ad hoc project calls with written updates for the project team, steerco and support to Group HR Operations Director, CIO and Directors as needed.
• HR Data & Systems: Monitor and share project-related data across key operational platforms (Workday for UK based Group employees) to safeguard human data integrity. Govern Workday organisational adjustments, executing systemic corrections for job title anomalies (e.g., re-architecting Delivery Manager titles into specialised roles as needed) without disrupting downstream systems. Maintain active oversight over project steering lines, proactively stepping in to provide early advice.

Requirements

• Required:
• Significant experience managing complex HR project workstreams, vendor transitions, or international operating model transformations
• Robust UK Employee Relations and advisory experience, with a strong comfort level assessing role change thresholds, talent mapping, and performance management governance.
• Background or foundational knowledge in job architecture mapping and navigating enterprise HRIS landscapes (Workday).
• Proven track record of working collaboratively with external consultants and technical leaders under tight project timelines.
• Action-oriented and diplomatic trait profile, with the ability to operate at a fast pace under pressure while holding a firm line on data governance and policy with senior IT stakeholders.
• High discretion and a strong appreciation for information ring-fencing and restricted communications during business projects.
• Preferred:
• Ideally a degree holder or equivalent.
• CIPD or equivalent professional qualification is desirable.
• HR Generalist experience
• Project management experience (e.g., Prince2, Agile) is desirable but can be developed in the job.
• Working knowledge of TUPE or secondary TUPE is preferable but not required.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme
• 23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in service benefit
• Healthcare
• Free parking

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