HR and Business Technology Programme Manager

A highly successful organisation is undergoing a comprehensive HRIS and business systems overhaul, shifting from localised, legacy software blocks toward a modern, unified cloud architecture. Within the people and back-office management stream, this large-scale migration will overhaul traditional HRIS platforms, including onboarding, compensation and enterprise payroll engines.

The incoming leader takes full accountability for engineering this multi-year roadmap. You will recruit and manage a large project team, to bridge the gap between initial technology builds and finalised operational value, safeguarding data continuity, scaling user adoption, and securing infrastructure resilience across thousands of end-users. Operating at an executive level, this individual will drive vendor accountability, align massive cross-functional technical teams, and insulate the programme against risk within a highly regulated governance framework.

Primary Objectives & Delivery Focus

• Financial Stewardship: Establish absolute clarity around investment cases; draft comprehensive fiscal forecasts, and outline assumption risks to protect corporate investment boards.
• Architectural Strategy & Mapping: Break complex delivery plans down into manageable operational streams, tranches, and delivery phases while validating that engineering milestones match overarching corporate benchmarks.
• Third-Party & Vendor Oversight: Command the commercial interface with systems integrators (SIs) and platform providers to maximize investment margins while ensuring delivery quality never falters.
• Enterprise Resource Capability: Mentor, recruit, and directly line-manage a matrixed technical ecosystem of up to professionals, including systems analysts, product owners, and engineering leads.
• Operational Benefits Realization: Map explicit technology deliverables directly back to business performance metrics, tracking areas such as processing optimization, financial compliance, data integrity, and payroll consistency.
• Governance Systems & Quality Gates: Stand up robust programme gatekeeping systems that empower delivery specialists. Enforce rigorous control boundaries around deployment readiness, technical scope creep, and service-readiness transitions.
• Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Secure operational buy-in from key enabling teams, steering alignments across Cyber Security networks, Enterprise Architecture, Legal Counsel, and Global Sourcing departments.

How to Apply

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly via the link.

Alternatively, if you would like a confidential discussion before applying, please reach out to Anton Blades at Annapurna via a.blades@ annapurnarecruitment.com or on 07441 341 721 .

Anton recruits within this functional landscape exclusively. Whether you feel you are a perfect fit for this specific position or are simply looking to explore future opportunities in this space, he would welcome the chance to connect for an initial conversation, be that over a phone call, a video meeting, or an informal coffee in person.