M3M3 — Senior Manager
HRIS Senior Manager
Second-level manager overseeing one or more HRIS managers or multiple teams/projects, contributing significantly to HR technology planning.
What this level means
Leads multiple teams or a sub-function; sets goals and owns cross-team execution.
- Scope
- Multiple teams or a sub-function
- Autonomy
- Sets goals within functional strategy
- Complexity
- Multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs
- Impact
- Sub-function outcomes
- Decision rights
- Owns goals, budget input, and people decisions across teams
- Leadership
- Manages managers and/or several teams
- Typical experience
- 8–12 yrs
What you'd do
- Contribute to the creation of the HRIS roadmap
- Oversee large-scale HRIS projects end-to-end
- Establish and enforce governance for HR data and system use
- Work closely with IT architects and other departments to integrate HRIS with enterprise systems
- Spearhead the development of advanced HR analytics capabilities
- Implement robust controls for data quality and security
- Develop HRIS roadmap
- Manage projects
- Enforce governance
- Integrate systems
- Develop analytics
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Roadmap development
- Project management
- Governance enforcement
- System integration
- Analytics development
- HRIS architecture
- Project management
- Data governance
- System integration
- Analytics capabilities
- Project leadership
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional collaboration
What good looks like
- Expertise in HRIS architecture
- Broad knowledge of HR technology landscape
- PMP certification
Common titles
HRIS Senior Manager
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
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