Work Location: Chennai OR Bangalore
Seeking a Global Workday SME with strong functional expertise in Core HCM and proven experience in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A).
Job Responsibilities:
- Act as the global SME for People Systems and Workday-related activities supporting M&A and divestment projects.
- Partner with Program and project managers, People function M&A, People Innovation & Experience, People Business Services, IT, Finance, Real Estate and external vendors to translate project objectives into end-to-end people system solutions.
- Gather, analyze and validate business requirements, business processes, security requirements and data needs for M&A and divestment programs.
- Lead solution design, testing, deployment and stabilization activities for acquisitions, integrations and separations.
- Coordinate employee, organizational and position data migration activities, including data validation, transformation and loading into Workday.
- Manage dependencies across the People Technology landscape, including Workday, Payroll, Learning, Recruitment, People Portal, Reporting and integrations.
- Ensure alignment across People Technology team, regional teams and project stakeholders.
- Provide functional leadership and guidance to regional counterparts and operational teams.
- Drive process standardization, governance and adoption of People Systems best practices within M&A and Core HR solutions.
- Contribute to the People Technology roadmap and strategic transformation initiatives within Core HR Solutions.
- Identify, prioritize and deliver continuous improvements that increase efficiency, quality and user experience for M&A and core HR.
- Support issue resolution, root-cause analysis and implementation of sustainable corrective actions.
- Ensure high standards of data quality, compliance, controls and audit readiness across supported solutions.
Minimum required Education:
Bachelor's/ Master's Degree in Human Resources, Communications, Business Administration, Organization Development or equivalent.
Preferred Skills:
• Lean Methodologies
• HR Service Delivery
• Documentation & Reporting
• Continuous Improvement
• Vendor Management
• Change Management
• Process Architecture
• Solution Design & Architecture
• Consulting
• System Performance Monitoring
• Project Management
• Operational Excellence Methodologies
• Strategy Development
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
About Philips
Are you ready to do the work of your life to help the lives of others? Learn more about our business, discover our rich and exciting history and learn more about our purpose.
If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Human Resources, Communications, Business Administration, Organization Development, or an equivalent field
- Experience with Workday
- Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions
- Experience with Core HR
- Lean methodologies
- HR service delivery
- Documentation and reporting
- Continuous improvement
- Vendor management
- Change management
- Process architecture
- Solution design and architecture
- Consulting
- System performance monitoring
- Project management
- Operational excellence methodologies
- Strategy development
Philips Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Philips and has not been reviewed or approved by Philips.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout, including a strong 401(k) match (often described at 7%) alongside pensions in some contexts.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible benefits are emphasized through choice in health insurance options and a broad “Total Rewards” approach that combines compensation, health and wellness, and work-life support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous paid time off and policies covering parental leave, caregiving responsibilities, volunteering, and family medical leave.
Philips Insights
What We Do
As a leading health technology company, it is our purpose to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. Our goal is to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030. We're always looking for ways to make life better – not only for our customers, but also for everyone working here. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we all acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.
