People Systems Manager
| Posting date: | 08 September 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, London, SE1 7GP |
| Company: | PPHE Hotel Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | req14118_1757360128 |
Summary
Are you passionate about HR technology and transformations? Join PPHE as our People Technology Manager, where you'll lead the evolution of our people systems, drive strategic initiatives, and empower teams through smart, scalable solutions. Your Impact: As a key partner to the Director of People & HR Technology, you'll shape and deliver our people tech strategy. You will lead full-cycle system projects, from RFP to implementation, adoption, and ongoing optimisation as well as manage and mentor a team of People Technology Specialists. Key Responsibilities: Project & Change Management
- Lead cross-functional teams to implement people management systems.
- Drive change management strategies to ensure high user engagement and successful adoption.
- Manage project resources and budgets, aligning with business priorities.
- Work closely with key stakeholders from HR to Finance to understand their needs and deliver relevant solutions.
- Advises the business leadership on people management systems
- Configure and maintain systems, including workflows, security, testing, and updates.
- Support user testing and work with the team to drive user adoption.
- Troubleshoot issues, recommend improvements, and ensure data integrity.
- Develop user friendly procedures & guidelines
- Ensure training is provided and available
- Advocate for user experience in system design and functionality.
- Collaborate with the Data & Automation team to reduce manual tasks and improve efficiency.
- Proactively seeks to make continuous process and systems improvements.
- Manage vendor relationships and support contract negotiations.
- Maintain reporting tools and dashboards to support strategic decision-making.
- Deliver regular and ad-hoc reports with accurate, consistent data.
- Ensure data governance and audit processes are in place and effective.
- Lead, mentor, and empower a team of People Technology Specialists.
- Foster strong relationships across departments and with external partners.
- Communicates effectively with both internal and external stakeholders and service providers (via written correspondence, phone and face to face)
- Builds positive partnerships with key providers.
- Support the Director in streamlining HR Shared Services Centre (HRSC) operations.
- Ensure HRSC teams can manage day-to-day system administration and first-line support effectively.
- Experience in Dayforce system
- Strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills
- A passion for data, systems, and continuous improvement
- Experience leading teams and driving adoption of new technologies