Manager of Payroll, Time & Absence South Europe (F/M)

In this role, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with people at different levels of the organization and to manage people on site and remotely, drive processes in line with KPI’s, work on continuous improvement projects. This is an exciting, fast-paced position that will enable you to learn and develop.

You will be based at our site in Aubagne in France |with some flexibility to work from home in accordance with our local agreement|.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join our global Human Resources operations team. You will have experience in working within global payroll and time solutions, with a range of local and international stakeholders.

Grow with Us - Your Responsibilities:

• Together with your team, acting as the point of contact for all questions and tasks concerning Payroll.
• Ensure that Payroll team provides customer-oriented, timely and quality-oriented service to internal and external stakeholders.
• Work closely with Payroll and Time Centers of Excellence, vendors, and payroll team on maintaining efficient, effective, compliant and continuously improved payroll rules, processes and control strategy.
• Ensure payroll team organization delivers system changes roadmap (resources & skills available, priorities)
• Apply Sartorius HR & local labor laws policies & instructions & values regarding each area of people management (Objectives, Performance, Merit, Time & Attendance, Safety etc..). Among those:
  • Take part to recruitment process.
  • Be accountable for the collective performance of the payroll team to meet annual objectives.
  • Develop technical skills & versatility of team members to ensure short&middle term employability & takes actively part in talent talks (support, coaches, grow accountability, create opportunities for development & teamwork, define annual training plan)
  • Ensure agreed functional organization is operated efficiently & effectively through clear & communicated overall RACI among payroll team and interfaces with HRS team and internal clients.
  • Build annual budget for his scope.
• Working on projects, local as well as international

What will convince us:

• Master Degree in HR or similar, linked to payroll
• Strong payroll experience
• Familiarity with modern payroll service center structures and solutions within an international environment
• Ability to design and operate digital payroll processes.
• Ability to prioritize workload to enable reaching service level agreements (SLA’s)
• Strong service & solution-oriented approach and effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage and lead a team even in difficult situations (change management skills ideally) in French and English
• Ability to design & build and operate efficient, standard, and effective payroll processes & strategy of control while leveraging digital tools
• Capability to apply discretion and sound judgment in managing decisions and handling sensitive and confidential information.
• Identifying with our corporate values: sustainability, openness, joy.

About Sartorius 

Sartorius is part of the solution in the fight against cancer, dementia, and many other diseases. Our technologies help translate scientific discoveries into real-world medicine faster, so that new therapeutics can reach patients worldwide. 

We look for ambitious team players and creative minds, who want to contribute to this goal and advance their careers in a dynamic global environment.

Join our global team and become part of the solution. We are looking forward to receiving your application. 
www.sartorius.com/careers