
Product Line Manager - Payroll, Time & Absence
Barcelone, Espagne Regular Posté le Jul. 30, 2025 Expire le Aug. 30, 2025Product Line Manager - Payroll, Time & Absence
- Location: Barcelona, Spain , maximum of 50% remote, 30% travel to be expected.
- Jobtype: Permanent Full-Time position
Our Team:
Our ambition: deliver best-in-class enterprise services enabling Sanofi to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Sanofi has been building the foundations of enterprise services over the past few years. With the creation of the global business unit Business Operations in 4Q 2023, we have elevated our commitment to innovation and excellence.
Business Operations plays a key role for Sanofi in modernizing the way we work.
An expert leadership team, passionate about process excellence, leading with high performance. We are building for the long term. We bring people together – many of them in our hub locations around the world - which simplify processes, break down barriers and rapidly cross-fertilise the best ideas across Sanofi.
Our critical success factors:
We have identified three key drivers:
- Community - Building a vibrant team that attracts and engages talent
- Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements.
- Digitalisation - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.
About the job
Reporting to the Head of Digital P&C and People Services, this global position oversees the digital configuration, integration, and strategy for time, attendance, absence, and payroll-related systems. The role is accountable for the end-to-end process and system design for time management and payroll interfaces, ensuring compliance with global standards while supporting local operational needs.
Key responsibilities
- Product Management Leadership: Lead the global product management team for time, attendance, absence, and payroll integration systems, ensuring system reliability and process optimization.
- Workday Expertise: Manage the configuration of Workday’s time and absence modules. Ensure global consistency while meeting specific country-level compliance requirements.
- Core Model and Payroll Interfaces: Own the design and governance of the core model for integration between Workday and local payroll/time tracking systems. Manage exceptions and ensure consistent interface operations.
- Strategic Roadmap Delivery: Develop and execute a long-term roadmap for payroll and time systems, anticipating compliance, operational, and efficiency needs.
- End-to-End Process Design: Oversee global process design for absence, time tracking, and payroll integration to ensure streamlined and compliant workflows.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with Digital Products, P&C, People Services, and local HR and finance stakeholders to ensure systems support operational excellence and compliance.
About you
Professional experience
- Experience: At least 10 years of experience in HR technology or digital product management with 5+ years in payroll, time, and attendance systems leadership.
- Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of Workday time and absence configuration. Experience managing interfaces with local payroll systems is essential.
- Leadership and Collaboration: Proven ability to lead teams and collaborate with cross-functional global stakeholders across P&C, Finance, and IT.
- Strategic Vision: Ability to build a strategic roadmap for time and payroll solutions while addressing local compliance and operational efficiency.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills, especially with translating system capabilities to business audiences.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, HR, or a related field
- Certifications in Workday or payroll/time systems are preferred
- Agile Mindset and Practices
- Compliance and Operational Governance
- Digital Product Management
- Risk and Issue Management
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Le contenu du poste est libellé en anglais car il nécessite de nombreuses interactions avec nos filiales à l’international, l'anglais étant la langue de travail. / This job description is written in English as this role requires daily interactions with sites and colleagues around the world and English is the common, working language.
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