Uniphar Background

Uniphar Group is a rapidly expanding diversified healthcare services business with a global footprint and a proud heritage in Ireland. Since Uniphar became a publicly listed company in 2019, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, which continue to strengthen Uniphar’s international reach. With a workforce of close to 3,000 spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Nordics and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and medtech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines and treatments around the world.

Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain & Retail, Commercial & Clinical (Med Tech / Pharma) and Product Access.

Job Description Summary

The HRIS Specialist will work across multiple modules in Workday (e.g. Core HCM, Learning, Recruitment, Absence, etc.) supporting the design, configuration, and administration of Uniphar Group global HRIS. The role collaborates with Divisional HRBP’s, the Talent team, as well as Payroll and Total Rewards, to analyse and document current processes and procedures with a consultative approach to improve efficiency and identify additional opportunities for automation.

Key Outcomes

• The primary focus of this position is to support the structure and maintenance of the Workday system (HRIS)
• Support security configuration to ensure appropriate control of access to the data and system.
• Provide 2nd level support to triage, diagnose, and assign/resolve issues originating from end-users, business process events, etc.
• Provide day-to-day support to HRIS stakeholders within the HR, Payroll, as well as to end users (employees and managers).
• Support HRIS upgrades, proactively monitor new features, upgrades and enhancements released by Workday and advocate for appropriate adoption plans, including bi-annual Workday releases and new system features.
• Support the HRIS Project Manager in testing and data validation and ensure that overall system performance is aligned with business objectives.
• Work closely with Divisional HR teams and business stakeholders to gather and define requirements and provide recommendations through a consultative approach.
• Partner with all areas of HR and business to create, edit and prepare reports and user-friendly dashboards where needed.
• Participate actively in the Workday Community, propose and advocate for improvements to the Workday solution, and build a network of peers to best-practice-share with.
• Ensure audit, compliance and GDPR practices are implemented and adhered to, and support system audits.
• Support the divisional HR teams to maintain the accuracy and integrity of employee data.
• Develop user procedures, guidelines, and documentation

Key Skills & Experiences

2 years’ experience working within a Workday configurations role together with a background in HR, either in a generalist or specialist role would be preferable. From there, we are looking for:

• Strong knowledge of multiple workday modules.
• Understanding of the full HR processes
• Strong communication skills, both in composing thoughtful and carefully written communication and sharing complex information verbally.
• You can navigate highly complex business needs without a clearly defined path and where you see a need, you bring a well-considered solution.
• Strong knowledge of Workday best practices and how to effectively translate into realistic business processes.
• Uses Initiative– always spots opportunities to simplify and improve processes to drive better results.
• Ideally completed some Workday Courses