Senior Manager, People Operations & Payroll

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A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive. Visit Our People page to learn more about Tapestry's commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity. 

Primary Purpose: This role leads People Operations and Payroll (both in-house and offshore) for Europe - a growing business unit currently spanning 11 markets. You will be responsible for driving seamless experiences that enhance self-service, automation, and cost efficiency. Key areas of focus include systems implementation and integration, payroll execution, and end-to-end HR shared service delivery.
You will align local objectives with global strategies, ensure compliance, and foster continuous improvement. This role collaborates closely with HR technology, shared services, and executive stakeholders to shape the future of HR systems, payroll, and service delivery.

Reports to: Senior Director, People Operations (North America)
Dotted line to: VP, Head of HR – EMEAI

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in People Operations & Payroll to lead: 

People Operations & Systems:

• Serve as regional lead for Workday implementation and Time & Attendance launch / integration.
• Manage the day-to-day relationship with Accenture/TPS (outsourced HR services vendor), including  governance meetings and quarterly leadership reviews.
• Lead HR systems, shared service delivery and payroll initiatives across Europe.
• Align regional objectives with global priorities to drive operational consistency.
• Act as the subject matter expert for HR operations, ensuring best-in-class service delivery.
• Serve as the escalation point for operational issues and cross-functional projects.
• Analyze ServiceNow ticket trends to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Continuously evaluate service provider performance and seek enhancements.
• Drive digitalization as product owner for systems like PeopleDoc, ServiceNow, and Audit & Compliance tools.
• Ensure all HR operations policies and processes are documented and up to date.

Compliance:

• Ensure adherence to regional/local data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) and internal policies.
• Act as a key contact for internal and external audits related to employee and payroll data.
• Conduct regular data integrity checks across systems.
• Ensure timely and accurate execution of SOX controls and quarterly submissions via AuditBoard.

Payroll:

• Work with Payroll team ensuring accurate and timely payment processing in compliance with company and statutory regulations.
• Maintain confidentiality of payroll operations by ensuring that general and payroll specific security procedures are observed by the team.
• Review and approve reconciliation and payroll reports, and coordinate with Finance on submissions.
• Liaise with tax authorities (e.g., HMRC) to ensure compliance with legislative requirements.
• Partner with Finance for year-end procedures and statutory reporting.

The accomplished individual will possess:

• Experience: Extensive experience in HR operations and project management. Expertise in HCM environment (SuccessFactors or Workday).
• Ownership & Process-driven Mindset: Strong ownership and accountability of people, processes, and strategy. Process management mindset with the ability to influence outcomes.
• Analytical Skills: Proficient in data analysis and reporting for informed decision-making and process improvement.
• Communication: Strong stakeholder management and excellent communication skills.
• People/Vendor Management: People and vendor management experience, motivating, leading, building and retaining talent.
• Project Management: Project management experience, including discovering, exploring, defining and delivering projects.

What Tapestry can offer you: 

• Hybrid working (3 days working from the office, 2 days remote)
• Option to finish early on a Friday (Flex Fridays)
• 1 paid volunteering day per year and opportunities to volunteer with global projects
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Internal mobility & career progression
• Regular social events - seasonal & cultural
• Equity Inclusion & Diversity initiatives which include employee resource groups & regional inclusion council

Other benefits include: 

• 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
• Annual Incentive Plan (company performance bonus)
• Multi brand discount up to 50% off – Coach and Kate Spade
• Private healthcare with health assessment (Bupa)
• Bupa rewards - Financial wellbeing support and wellness discounts
• Private dental cover
• Eyecare vouchers
• Employee assistance programme
• Employer pension contribution
• Gym discount
• Interest free season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person’s career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale
  and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Tapestry, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. Visit Tapestry, Inc. at http://www.tapestry.com/