[Hiring] HRIS Manager @Meridian Bioscience

Role Description

The HRIS Manager provides operational leadership for Meridian's HR technology ecosystem, with Workday serving as the core platform supporting HR Operations and Centers of Excellence. The role owns day-to-day governance and administration of assigned HRIS areas, including:

• System configuration
• Security
• Integrations
• Reporting standards
• Data quality
• Change control
• Release support

In partnership with designated process owners, the Manager translates approved requirements into controlled system solutions; directs the HRIS Analyst; and establishes standards and controls for basic Workday transactions performed by the HR Coordinator and other approved users. The role ensures stable operations, privacy, audit readiness, and user adoption while leaving policy, program, and business decisions with the assigned functional owners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, HRIS, Information Systems, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Six or more years of progressive HRIS/HCM experience, including at least three years of hands-on Workday configuration and administration.
• Demonstrated experience leading at least one Workday module, major enhancement, or business-process improvement from requirements through deployment and stabilization.
• Advanced experience with Core HCM, Workday business process configuration, security, reporting and calculated fields, data loads, and integrations; experience with Performance, Talent, Compensation, Recruiting, Absence, Time Tracking, or Benefits preferred.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and vendors; prior people leadership or formal technical team-lead experience preferred.
• Experience supporting a global or multi-entity environment preferred.
• Formal Workday training, Workday Pro accreditation, or equivalent advanced Workday expertise preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced Workday functional configuration and troubleshooting capability with a clear understanding that system administration supports, but does not replace, assigned policy, program, process, or business ownership.
• Strong understanding of HR, payroll, total rewards, talent, recruiting, and employee-lifecycle processes and the distinction among policy, program, process, and system ownership.
• Knowledge of Workday security, role-based access, segregation of duties, data privacy, audit controls, and change management.
• Working knowledge of Workday integrations and tools such as EIBs, delivered connectors, web services/APIs, and integration monitoring; deeper integration-builder experience preferred.
• Strong reporting and data-analysis skills, including custom reports, calculated fields, dashboards, data validation, and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong project coordination, requirements gathering, testing, documentation, and change-adoption capabilities.
• Sound judgment, risk awareness, and ability to make decisions with incomplete information while escalating appropriately.
• Strong leadership, coaching, stakeholder management, vendor management, and clear communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving, attention to detail, organization, and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Demonstrated discretion.

Requirements

• Travel up to 5%.

Benefits

• *All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. (USA Only)*