Associate Director Time & Attendance/Workforce Management Systems

Tyson Foods•Springdale, AR

12d•Onsite

About The Position

This position will be responsible for driving, implementing, and managing an enterprise wide end to end workforce management solution to create efficiencies impacting operational output and promote a positive team member experience by ensuring accurate and timely scheduling and pay. This position will lead a team of support professionals whose purpose is to advance the delivery of the time systems technology by implementing a scheduling program to aide in production efficiency and consolidating into one time and attendance system. This position is expected to provide technical and analytical leadership on projects and to contribute to strategic planning efforts. This position is responsible for ensuring the time systems function upholds Tyson HR policies and business procedures to ensure time calculations are accurate based on location pay practices while adhering to local, state and federal laws, union contracts and Tyson business practices. This position will oversee the efforts to data mine for legal requests in current and legacy systems, test upgrades, break/fixes and new functionality ensuring system functionality integrity. This will include defining user requirements, establishing technical specifications, productivity, quality, and customer service standards. They will play a significant part in driving efficiency and consistency across the time systems function. The leader of this team will ensure the necessary KPIs and SLAs are met to ensure delivery to payroll for the hourly population on a weekly basis.

Requirements

General working knowledge of hourly pay practices, HR policies, state and federal laws.
Ability to comprehend union contracts and how they impact punches to administer company obligations while standardizing to reduce system footprints.
Ability to lead and inspire a complex team with high level technology configuration skills.
Selection and development of team members, effective delegation, motivation, communication and decision making related to the team members it manages.
Experience building out large scale cross functional process documentation, identifying improvement opportunities and specific measurements to track performance post implementation.
Ability to lead complex, enterprise wide time system initiatives.
Understands how to escalate & drive issues to resolution, manage budget, perform resource planning and manage scope.
Exceptional technical and analytical skills with the ability to think creatively and develop new solutions.
Ability to identify process improvements that will drive optimal efficiency and a lean operating model.
Demonstrated ability to successfully manage competing priorities & deliverables in a fast-paced, dead-line oriented environment.
Perseveres to locate necessary data and identify creative solutions to enable project completion.
Experience collaborating with solutions to enable project completion.
Consistently delivers high-quality, timely work resulting in highly satisfied customers.
Background in Project Management.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
10 years relevant experience required.
Advanced computer skills related to time systems.
Highly competent in the use of Microsoft office suite, in addition to other database query/reporting tools.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills required.
Ability to adapt communication style for all levels within the organization.
Proven ability to manage large scale cross functional projects using the defined Tyson methodology.
Strong analytical, technical, and interpretation skills to drive efficiencies.

Nice To Haves

Passion for learning, testing, and able to work successfully in a matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

Driving, implementing, and managing an enterprise wide end to end workforce management solution.
Leading a team of support professionals to advance the delivery of time systems technology.
Implementing a scheduling program to aid in production efficiency.
Consolidating into one time and attendance system.
Providing technical and analytical leadership on projects.
Contributing to strategic planning efforts.
Ensuring time systems function upholds Tyson HR policies and business procedures.
Ensuring time calculations are accurate based on location pay practices while adhering to local, state and federal laws, union contracts and Tyson business practices.
Overseeing efforts to data mine for legal requests in current and legacy systems.
Testing upgrades, break/fixes and new functionality ensuring system functionality integrity.
Defining user requirements, establishing technical specifications, productivity, quality, and customer service standards.
Driving efficiency and consistency across the time systems function.
Ensuring necessary KPIs and SLAs are met to ensure delivery to payroll for the hourly population on a weekly basis.
Interpreting earned time off, incentives, holidays, etc. across location specific preferences and configuring time systems to accurately reflect.
Ensuring any due retro payments are made.
Building out large scale cross functional process documentation.
Identifying improvement opportunities and specific measurements to track performance post implementation.
Leading complex, enterprise wide time system initiatives.
Escalating & driving issues to resolution.
Managing budget.
Performing resource planning.
Managing scope.
Identifying process improvements that will drive optimal efficiency and a lean operating model.
Managing competing priorities & deliverables in a fast-paced, dead-line oriented environment.
Locating necessary data and identifying creative solutions to enable project completion.
Collaborating with solutions to enable project completion.
Delivering high-quality, timely work resulting in highly satisfied customers.
Learning, testing, and working successfully in a matrixed environment.