People Systems Lead - Talent Acquisition & Development

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world. 

Wood is recruiting for a People Systems Lead - Talent Acquisition & Development to join us on a permanent basis. This is an exciting role where you will work with the business stakeholders to support leveraging Hire to Retire technology to drive functional objectives and support initiatives to achieve these objectives. 

We are open to this role being remote with the UK and the US and welcome applications from candidates who can work with all levels within functional teams globally. 

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The Role

The successful applicant will ensure that People Systems activity aligns with business objectives and maximize the effectiveness and competitiveness of Wood. Ensuring maximisation of procedures and efficiency alongside the operational functional teams. 

This role’s objective is to ensure the business is provided with high quality support related to maximising commercial worth and minimising risk by adhering to Wood policies and processes. The primary responsibilities are to deliver functional area programme or specialist area and ensures delivered system solutions meet business requirements; business and systems processes are clearly defined and ensures appropriate data cleanse and monitoring. 

You will collaborate and partner with key business stakeholders to deliver optimised efficiency and performance through technology and drives business process continuous improvement.

This role may lead a team to ensure a successful execution of required goals and objectives.

Our Clients and Projects 

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood delivers solutions across more than 60 countries with local offices covering all major energy and materials hubs globally. 

For more than 160 years, we have partnered with clients to deliver engineering, advisory and operational solutions to some of the world’s most complex and critical challenges in energy and materials.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects we support green hydrogen and fuel switching, as well as supporting local clients with energy transition
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid working arrangements
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle 
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession

• Supports the Digital Transformation Manager in the delivery of effective practice which complements the implementations delivery and blueprint
• Support the Digital Transformation Manager in leading function driven projects and initiatives
• Supports with project planning, discovery, business readiness and adoption of streamlined and standardised end to end processes
• Supports continuous improvements, enhancements and projects striving toward first class technological solutions
• Identify opportunities for automated solutions setting technological priorities and explore application capabilities
• Keeps informed of functional changes to the application advised in the Oracle maintenance packs
• Contributes to the development and maintenance of global end to end business processes, standards guidance and technical system documentation. 
• May take the lead as a key focal point or subject matter expert for business implementation roll out or may provide ongoing post go live support 
• Monitors, tracks and manages quarterly system updates and engages with key business stakeholders to work through requirements
• Work closely with change management analyst to align an include activities, communications, training & education etc into functional project plans. 
• Provides accurate effort estimations, supports the development of user requirements, testing plans and deployments 
• Acts as a mentor and general support for less-experienced team members through both technical knowledge and leadership skills 
• Manages assigned projects delivering to defined timescales using existing resources

What makes you remarkable?  

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges. 

Expected: 

• Educated to degree level or relevant equivalent years of experience (majoring in systems would be a bonus) 
• Excellent knowledge in the use of EBS or HCM solutions for support business strategy 
• Able to articulate business benefits of systems
• Knowledge of IT system delivery and change management processes aligned to strong understanding business operations and strategy 
• Possesses functional systems processing expertise for assigned objectives
• Able to design and implement standard business processes to ensure successful systems deployment 
• Able to effectively work with multi-disciplinary teams on regional and global levels and identify stakeholder needs and refers as appropriate.
• Self-motivating, able to assume responsibility over broad objectives, priorities and deadlines with minimal supervision
• Identifies inefficiencies, seeks new ways to improve and provides process improvement recommendations
• Demonstrates awareness and appreciation for the global multi-dimensional and diverse perspectives in organisation’s line of business
• Excellent skills and understanding of writing system and test scripts
• Awareness of functional principles, practices and regulations in a global context 

Desirable:

• Qualified or working towards HR Qualification 

Personal attributes: 

• Demonstrates leadership capability and behaviours in line with the Wood leadership framework 
• Understand and champions the core values providing an example to staff and colleagues 
• Demonstrate ability to drive change and influence key stakeholders in a global and matrix organisation environment