Solution Subject Matter Expert

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omni-channel retailer in the sports, fashion, and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Responsible to: EU Solution Manager

Department: People Operations

Location: One in each of [UK, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain] and two in each territory (Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Benelux)

Role Overview:

Advance the People Teams impact by delivering a full HRIS programme within a cluster of European countries aimed at positioning JD as an employer of choice.

The JD People team puts the colleague at the heart of what we do to develop a level of service that emulates the JD brand and maximises colleague experience.

We are looking for an subject matter expert, with experience in supporting the designing and implementing complex, high profile HRIS implementations. The role key objective will be to support in implementing overarching global design principles, with essential changes for local territory requirements.

This role is hands-on and candidates must be capable of understanding how business requirements turn into design and processes with the ability to configure system infrastructure to deliver requirements alongside the management of multinational teams and other key supporting roles. In addition to communicating with and managing stakeholders, the successful candidate will need to be process-driven, highly analytical and organised.

A successful SME should possess a good track record in evaluating organizational needs and configuration of solutions, improving organizational efficiency by applying their expert knowledge of one or more areas of the People function to resolve complex challenges. This can either be from a perspective of People practices and statutory regulations, or could be from supporting the implementation or development of IT solutions.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Help design a systemic solution to best suit the Groups requirements
• Support the delivery of the confirguration and Implemention of a HRIS solution across European countries.
• Maintain an understanding of legislative requirements for HCM, Time Capture and Pay for your specified cluster.
• Support the implementation of the systems and procedures to ensure BAU teams are trained and developed in system architecture and use
• Have a passion for providing quality, security and accuracy

• Deliver impeccable service to the wider People Team and wider business
• Support the design, build and test integrations between HR solution and other product workstreams.

• Coordinate your team for the following activities: Compliance, SKU Testing, BAU Changes, Global Design templates and more

Skills:

• Previous experience in either HRIS architecture or strong technical knowledge in either HR/WFM or Pay is essential

• Ability to work under own initiative essential
• Previous experience in deploying HRIS solutions across multiple territories beneficial
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
• Effective communication skills both written and oral
• Confident and courteous in dealing with internal and external stakeholders

• Prominent level of attention to detail with strong administrative and organisational skills and be able to prioritise your own and your team’s workload
• Must be methodical and be able to work to strict deadlines.
• Have an awareness of GDPR and be able to act with absolute discretion and confidentiality
• Ambitious to learn with an enthusiastic approach
• Successful candidate must have valid passport and be able to travel internationally

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Free parking
• Holiday Allowance
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• up to 50% Staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation, depending on level of role
• Pension Scheme
• Flexible Working Hours
• Health plans – Depending on level of role
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don’t hear back within two weeks of you applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.