Global Process Owner Time and Absence (HR Operations)

Location: Veldhoven, Netherlands

Company

hirify.global Business Services, People Operations, is transforming global HR services to provide consistent, compliant and high-quality support for employees and managers.

What you will do

• Own the global framework for work schedules, time registration and corrections, overtime, leave and absence registration, leave balances, and time-to-payroll interfaces.
• Define global standards, minimum requirements, governance, documentation, controls, ownership, decision rights, and regional handovers.
• Build the Time and Absence roadmap, prioritize improvements, and monitor KPIs covering data accuracy, payroll readiness, timeliness, corrections, employee experience, and efficiency.
• Use process data, recurring cases, and employee feedback to identify root causes and reduce manual corrections, rework, and avoidable inquiries.
• Lead standardization, simplification, automation, self-service, and process or technology changes with HR, Payroll, IT, employees, and managers.
• Ensure compliance by design and coordinate legislative, policy, and technology changes across regions while acting as an escalation point for structural process issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Operations Management, Information Management, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in Time and Absence, workforce management, payroll, HR operations, or global process ownership.
• Strong understanding of work schedules, time registration, leave administration, and time-to-payroll dependencies.
• Experience working across countries with different legal and operational requirements.
• Experience designing and improving processes in a shared-services or global business-services environment.
• Experience with HR or workforce-management platforms such as Workday and service-management platforms such as ServiceNow.
• Experience leading process or technology changes involving HR, Payroll, IT, employees, and managers.
• Strong end-to-end process, governance, analytical, control, data-quality, stakeholder-management, influencing, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Fluency in English and the ability to translate complex policy, legal, and system requirements into practical processes.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Lean or comparable continuous-improvement methodologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Role within the Global Operational Excellence team in People Operations, hirify.global Business Services.
• Work focuses on improving processes used daily by employees and managers and influencing payroll accuracy, compliance, and employee experience.
• Collaborative approach aligned with hirify.global’s values of Challenge, Collaborate, and Care.
• Inclusive and diverse equal-opportunity workplace.

Hiring process

• Apply with an English CV and cover letter outlining relevant experience and motivation.