Axa Hiring for HR Systems Project Manager at Bolton Full Time

It’s an exciting time to join AXA UK’s HR function with significant investment planned in all UK&I businesses to transform and deliver new digital services to our customers and to automate our business processes. To help us deliver an independent, high quality and effective assurance to Senior Management we now seek to appoint a talented and qualified Project Manager to join the team as HR Systems Project Manager.

This role is responsible for supporting the HR System change plan, to set clear deliverables and expectations for our ‘customers’ with the assigned owners, to drive the delivery focus for new and improved HR Systems, including the monitoring, tracking and reporting of progress against plans. At AXA we’re adopting a Hybrid way of working, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. This role can be performed from almost any of our locations but will require regular attendance at our Bolton office as the majority of stakeholders are located there.

What you’ll be doing:
Project Management of the Requests for Information/Proposals and Business Requirements Documents, discovery, design and implementation phases for assigned HR system projects.

Project Planning: Lead, build and manage HR System projects that will tend to be complex in nature, spanning business areas and may involve engagement with 3rd parties. Ensure they are delivered within agreed time, cost, quality and customer requirements using appropriate tools, techniques and methodologies. These projects may pose medium-high levels of risk to the company

Budget Management – to ensure the project is delivered on cost, and on time within the parameters of the agreed project costs.

Support the delivery the HR Systems strategy; strategic system solutions designed, agreed and implemented according to change timescales as agreed and signed off by key Stakeholders

Embed a strong focus on delivery and employee experience; specifically support the HR Operations team but also the wider HR teams as required, on planning of Business Change Management actions e.g. communications, training to employees, to ensure that the solutions are sustainable

Risk Management: Effectively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions etc, in order to allow the team & projects to deliver within agreed timeframes by putting measures in place to manage and control. Ensure the team and relevant business areas review and update their risk and control measures to take into account the delivery.

Analysis: Complete analysis activities that are required to support the project teams for agreed priorities, including, leading design and analysis, defining analysis approach, issue resolution, stakeholder management, define As-Is and To-Be business processes / data model, clarify changes, ensuring a common understanding of the business change, Responsible for sign off of expected deliverables

Solutions, Design and Prioritisation: Responsible for working closely with the project teams to actively manage prioritisation lists including; creating, shaping and defining business cases, initial solutions proposed and developed as required, assisting the business with requirement prioritisation and phasing recommendations ensuring the most appropriate and effective delivery, and ensuring a clear boundary around what the proposed business change will and will not be achieving. Develop and recommend solutions and developments; ensuring proposals are in line with agreed design principles, strategic business plans, legislation and best practice

Process Improvement & Management: To support the teams with the tools and methodology to identify, understand, improve and manage key processes and associated KPI’s to deliver a consistent, effective and efficient Employee Experience.

Monitoring and Tracking: Build and management of reporting, monitoring and tracking for the program / projects. Identification of key performance measures for activity and set up of dashboard for proactive management of progress

Be the subject matter expert on the running of projects for the HR team

Minimise the total cost of the HR system architecture by promoting standardisation and system convergence across AXA UK where it is appropriate to do so.

Qualifications

High quality Project Management – experience in delivering HR systems, analysis and reports, delivered within agreed time scales.

Production and ongoing maintenance of relevant dashboards/information packs that drive decision making and appropriate mitigation activity.

Complete, accurate and timely reporting of risks and escalated issues

Quality delivery of change workshops and outputs

High quality, up to date, change, system & project related documentation

Intelligent, confident, outgoing with good communication, influencing and presentation skills

Strong numeracy and report writing skills

Knowledge of systems applications (Excel, PowerPoint)

Confident to be proactive in eliciting information from the stakeholders

Able to apply project management methodology

Resilience and the ability to deal with conflict

Dealing with ambiguity with a creative and innovative approach to solving problems and identifying solutions

Proven track record of building relationships with senior stakeholders and a demonstrable ability to challenge as part of those relationships

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorized to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer

One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package. At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

Annual salary up to £70,000 dependent on experience

Annual company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)

Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 3 days leave

AXA employee discounts

Gym benefits

AXA is proud to support the needs of our employees and as such understands everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role, should this be a requirement for you.

At AXA, we want to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for and to achieve this ambition, we need the best talent to come and work for us. We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. We’re proud to be committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all backgrounds. As a financial services company, all successful candidates will be subject to preemployment checks, so we can ensure regulatory compliance.

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About AXA

With a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.

But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.

You’ll work in an open and supportive environment where you’ll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things – nationally and internationally. You’ll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you’ll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.

Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do. For us, it’s about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone – regardless of difference.

We’re proud to be part of the AXA Group, a global insurance brand and a worldwide leader in financial services, providing corporate support services to a whole range of AXA UK businesses. From how we use the latest technology to exploring new channels to market, our impact is far-reaching, wide-ranging and ever-evolving. We actively encourage our people to think differently. Because only by challenging the status quo will we push AXA onto even greater things.