Regional Payroll Lead - EMEA Food ingredients
On-siteAsturias, Central Visayas, Philippines
Job Summary
Lead execution, implementation, and stabilization of payroll operations across the EMEA region as the Food Ingredients business transitions to a standalone organization. Own regional payroll delivery against the global project plan, ensuring country readiness, testing, and milestone management. Oversee end-to-end payroll accuracy, timeliness, and compliance while managing vendor relationships with ADP and TMF. Lead and develop regional payroll resources, providing direction to local teams and acting as the primary escalation point for regional issues. Partner with HR, Finance, Tax, and business leaders to ensure alignment on inputs, funding, and reporting. Drive continuous improvement in service delivery and operational effectiveness across the region.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive payroll experience with significant multi-country EMEA payroll leadership responsibilities
- Strong experience managing payroll operations across multiple countries, including oversight of payroll vendors and local payroll teams
- Demonstrated experience supporting payroll implementations, transitions, or transformation initiatives within complex multinational organizations
- Strong understanding of payroll compliance, controls, governance, statutory requirements, and country-specific payroll practices across the EMEA region
- Experience supporting payroll operations within environments subject to collective bargaining agreements, Works Councils, labor unions, and other employee representative bodies, with an understanding of their impact on payroll administration, compliance, and operational processes
- Experience managing vendor-led payroll delivery models and driving vendor accountability against service levels and operational performance expectations
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, risks, and operational activities in a fast-paced environment
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively across HR, Finance, Legal, Tax, IT, and business leadership
- Experience leading teams, coaching payroll professionals, and creating a culture of accountability, service excellence, and continuous improvement
- Strong communication in English, as well as problem-solving, execution, and organizational skills
- Prior experience working with ADP, TMF, or similar global payroll providers
- Experience leading payroll stand-up, carve-out, separation, or transformation activities, and operating within a shared services, global business services, or outsourced payroll environment
- Experience within a manufacturing, industrial, food, ingredients, or similarly complex operational environment
Desired Qualifications
- The preferred location for the role would be Asturias (Spain), but other locations can be potentially considered as well
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