Zellis
Almondsbury, Gloucestershire
As a Managing Project Manager, you will lead and manage one or more specific implementation projects, often with complex multi workstream delivery and transformative customer change.This will include the responsibility for the customer relationship, project plans, objectives, deliverables and milestones, risks and issues, status reporting and governance and the budget and P&L for medium-large (often £300k+) projects and commercial margin of the delivery. You will work closely with the Engagement Director, Implementation Consultants, Test Managers/Leads, Service Readiness and Zellis Product & Technology colleagues, and will partner with customer Project, and Test managers to achieve the relevant delivery milestones on time, at the highest level of quality and on budget. As well as this, you will also manage a pool of project managers, and be instrumental in supporting coaching and mentoring to support their skills and career development This role will also involve interfacing with Customer and Zellis Exec to present the ongoing status, risks and issues on projects under their governance, and support our continuous improvement initiatives to take lessons learned and feed them back into our programme and project methodology. Please note that this is a home based role with expectation to travel to customer sites as neccessary. Responsibilities Partnering with the customer Project and Test Managers to develop a One Team approach to end-to-end delivery to ensure that all project and change activities are delivered on time, at the highest level of quality and on budget Developing, agreeing, and maintaining a detailed project plan with the customer, based on the Zellis standard project Implementation methodology, including deliverables, milestones and entry and exit criteria as relevant Managing and coordinating all project or change activities so that they are undertaken in accordance with the project plan, including successfully transitioning the service to a live state with ongoing ownership from the Application Support team Onboarding, managing, coaching and supporting all project resources in executing their activities and acting as the point of escalation for any execution issues beyond the relevant workstreams Facilitating the provision of software, infrastructure, supporting tools and appropriate resources for each phase of the project to ensure all pre-requisites and ongoing support is in place Managing the scheduling, preparation and facilitation of project or change governance meetings (including milestone or stage gate reviews and sign off meetings) and to inform project stakeholders of progress Managing ongoing project or change risks and issues (including mitigation and where possible resolution), and ensuring that they are reported and escalated to the Engagement Directors and Implementation Director in a timely fashion way. Skills & Experience Experience leading on medium-large scale Implementation, software, advisory or Managed Services customers with medium-large scale employee volumes (over 10,000 EE s and £300k budgets) Managing & owning project KPIs, objectives, financial measures, planning, resourcing, deliverables, change controls and successful outcomes with internal and customer stakeholders (including C-Suite level with Engagement Director support) Acting as project lead across complex projects, including over multiple workstreams (cross customer, third party and internal cross functional Planning, scheduling and delivering work for self and others to meet given objectives, outcomes and KPIs; monitors self and others against agreed delivery timelines Understands, applies and advises appropriate methods, tools, applications and processes (driving continuous improvement of standard operating processes) ?Demonstrates the ability to manage people performance, development and retantion risks, including driving teams to achieve targets, incl SLAs, KPI's Benefits & Culture At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Think scale. Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that s varied, flexible and hugely supportive. We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you ll receive: A competitive base salary. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday. Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%. A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.
As a Managing Project Manager, you will lead and manage one or more specific implementation projects, often with complex multi workstream delivery and transformative customer change.This will include the responsibility for the customer relationship, project plans, objectives, deliverables and milestones, risks and issues, status reporting and governance and the budget and P&L for medium-large (often £300k+) projects and commercial margin of the delivery. You will work closely with the Engagement Director, Implementation Consultants, Test Managers/Leads, Service Readiness and Zellis Product & Technology colleagues, and will partner with customer Project, and Test managers to achieve the relevant delivery milestones on time, at the highest level of quality and on budget. As well as this, you will also manage a pool of project managers, and be instrumental in supporting coaching and mentoring to support their skills and career development This role will also involve interfacing with Customer and Zellis Exec to present the ongoing status, risks and issues on projects under their governance, and support our continuous improvement initiatives to take lessons learned and feed them back into our programme and project methodology. Please note that this is a home based role with expectation to travel to customer sites as neccessary. Responsibilities Partnering with the customer Project and Test Managers to develop a One Team approach to end-to-end delivery to ensure that all project and change activities are delivered on time, at the highest level of quality and on budget Developing, agreeing, and maintaining a detailed project plan with the customer, based on the Zellis standard project Implementation methodology, including deliverables, milestones and entry and exit criteria as relevant Managing and coordinating all project or change activities so that they are undertaken in accordance with the project plan, including successfully transitioning the service to a live state with ongoing ownership from the Application Support team Onboarding, managing, coaching and supporting all project resources in executing their activities and acting as the point of escalation for any execution issues beyond the relevant workstreams Facilitating the provision of software, infrastructure, supporting tools and appropriate resources for each phase of the project to ensure all pre-requisites and ongoing support is in place Managing the scheduling, preparation and facilitation of project or change governance meetings (including milestone or stage gate reviews and sign off meetings) and to inform project stakeholders of progress Managing ongoing project or change risks and issues (including mitigation and where possible resolution), and ensuring that they are reported and escalated to the Engagement Directors and Implementation Director in a timely fashion way. Skills & Experience Experience leading on medium-large scale Implementation, software, advisory or Managed Services customers with medium-large scale employee volumes (over 10,000 EE s and £300k budgets) Managing & owning project KPIs, objectives, financial measures, planning, resourcing, deliverables, change controls and successful outcomes with internal and customer stakeholders (including C-Suite level with Engagement Director support) Acting as project lead across complex projects, including over multiple workstreams (cross customer, third party and internal cross functional Planning, scheduling and delivering work for self and others to meet given objectives, outcomes and KPIs; monitors self and others against agreed delivery timelines Understands, applies and advises appropriate methods, tools, applications and processes (driving continuous improvement of standard operating processes) ?Demonstrates the ability to manage people performance, development and retantion risks, including driving teams to achieve targets, incl SLAs, KPI's Benefits & Culture At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Think scale. Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that s varied, flexible and hugely supportive. We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you ll receive: A competitive base salary. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday. Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%. A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.
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As an Implementation Consultant, you will be responsible for delivering implementation consultancy activities for Zellis customers on multiple aspects of their solutions or services delivery. You will be responsible for advising and working with customers to help them understand, implement, configure or test good practice use of Zellis suite of customer solutions and advise on industry leading processes and operational service design. This role may lead delivery directly or will work closely with the implementation project or programme manager. They will also partner with customer stakeholders and business representatives to support the achievement of the relevant delivery milestones on time, at the highest level of quality and on budget. Responsibilities Acting as a good practice advisor, coach and subject matter expert on industry leading processes and Zellis range of solutions and services, partnering with the customer to develop a One Team approach to delivery and to ensure that all activities are delivered on time, at the highest level of quality and on budget Managing, scheduling and coordinating all activities assigned to you so that they are undertaken in accordance with the relevant plan, working alongside and in partnership with the wider Zellis and customer project team Completing testing of any deliverables or supporting activities assigned to you as part of the implementation plan to the highest level of quality and where agreed, in line with all acceptance criteria Supporting the project or programme manager in facilitating the provision of software, infrastructure, supporting tools and appropriate resources for each phase of the project to ensure all pre-requisites and ongoing support is in place Anticipating and managing ongoing risks and issues (including mitigation and resolution), and ensuring that they are escalated to the Implementation project or programme manager (or Zellis senior leader) in a timely fashion Skills & Experience Experience delivering on small, non-complex Implementation, software, advisory or Managed Services customers with small-medium scale employee volumes (under 10,000 EE s and £300k budgets) Significant experence implementing HCM or Payroll software Significant understanding of Payroll processing and legislation Proficiency in ZIP APIs, connectors and integration methods Proficiency in data migration and loading for medium complexity data structures, as well as master data and payroll reconciliation for medium complexity employee payroll data, gross to net calculations and associated outputs Benefits & Culture At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Think scale. Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that s varied, flexible and hugely supportive. We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you ll receive: A competitive base salary. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday. Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%. A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.
As an Implementation Consultant, you will be responsible for delivering implementation consultancy activities for Zellis customers on multiple aspects of their solutions or services delivery. You will be responsible for advising and working with customers to help them understand, implement, configure or test good practice use of Zellis suite of customer solutions and advise on industry leading processes and operational service design. This role may lead delivery directly or will work closely with the implementation project or programme manager. They will also partner with customer stakeholders and business representatives to support the achievement of the relevant delivery milestones on time, at the highest level of quality and on budget. Responsibilities Acting as a good practice advisor, coach and subject matter expert on industry leading processes and Zellis range of solutions and services, partnering with the customer to develop a One Team approach to delivery and to ensure that all activities are delivered on time, at the highest level of quality and on budget Managing, scheduling and coordinating all activities assigned to you so that they are undertaken in accordance with the relevant plan, working alongside and in partnership with the wider Zellis and customer project team Completing testing of any deliverables or supporting activities assigned to you as part of the implementation plan to the highest level of quality and where agreed, in line with all acceptance criteria Supporting the project or programme manager in facilitating the provision of software, infrastructure, supporting tools and appropriate resources for each phase of the project to ensure all pre-requisites and ongoing support is in place Anticipating and managing ongoing risks and issues (including mitigation and resolution), and ensuring that they are escalated to the Implementation project or programme manager (or Zellis senior leader) in a timely fashion Skills & Experience Experience delivering on small, non-complex Implementation, software, advisory or Managed Services customers with small-medium scale employee volumes (under 10,000 EE s and £300k budgets) Significant experence implementing HCM or Payroll software Significant understanding of Payroll processing and legislation Proficiency in ZIP APIs, connectors and integration methods Proficiency in data migration and loading for medium complexity data structures, as well as master data and payroll reconciliation for medium complexity employee payroll data, gross to net calculations and associated outputs Benefits & Culture At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Think scale. Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that s varied, flexible and hugely supportive. We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you ll receive: A competitive base salary. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday. Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%. A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.
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As a Product Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for driving positioning, go-to-market execution and commercial impact across key areas of the Zellis portfolio. Your focus is clear: turn insight into revenue. You will translate product capability into compelling value stories, support successful launches, strengthen competitive positioning and equip our commercial teams to win. You will report to the Head of Product Marketing and work closely with Product Management, Sales, Customer Success and the wider Marketing team. Responsibilities Product positioning and messaging Define clear, differentiated positioning grounded in customer outcomes. Develop messaging frameworks that move the conversation from features to measurable value. Ensure consistency across campaigns, sales enablement and external communications. Go-to-market delivery Lead end-to-end go-to-market plans for product launches, enhancements and propositions. Align Product, Sales, Marketing and Customer Success around shared objectives and launch milestones. Ensure every launch is evidence-based and measured by adoption, pipeline contribution and revenue impact. Market and competitive insight Conduct buyer research, win/loss analysis and competitor monitoring. Maintain up-to-date battlecards, personas and segmentation frameworks. Translate insight into practical recommendations that influence pricing, packaging and roadmap priorities. Sales enablement and value articulation Develop tools that help sales teams sell on value, not features. Create discovery guides, value propositions, objection-handling frameworks and business case support materials. Performance and impact Track product marketing contribution to win rates, deal size and growth. Use data to refine messaging, campaigns and GTM processes. Demonstrate tangible commercial impact from product marketing activity. AI Creation and management of AI agents in the PMM and GTM processes to drive efficiency and effectiveness Skills & Experience Significant product marketing experience, ideally within HR, Payroll or B2B SaaS. Experience delivering structured go-to-market plans in enterprise environments. Strong commercial awareness and comfort working with revenue metrics. Proven ability to turn complex product capability into simple, persuasive messaging. Experience supporting competitive intelligence and sales enablement programmes. Benefits & Culture At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Think scale. Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that s varied, flexible and hugely supportive. We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you ll receive: A competitive base salary. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday. Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%. A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.
As a Product Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for driving positioning, go-to-market execution and commercial impact across key areas of the Zellis portfolio. Your focus is clear: turn insight into revenue. You will translate product capability into compelling value stories, support successful launches, strengthen competitive positioning and equip our commercial teams to win. You will report to the Head of Product Marketing and work closely with Product Management, Sales, Customer Success and the wider Marketing team. Responsibilities Product positioning and messaging Define clear, differentiated positioning grounded in customer outcomes. Develop messaging frameworks that move the conversation from features to measurable value. Ensure consistency across campaigns, sales enablement and external communications. Go-to-market delivery Lead end-to-end go-to-market plans for product launches, enhancements and propositions. Align Product, Sales, Marketing and Customer Success around shared objectives and launch milestones. Ensure every launch is evidence-based and measured by adoption, pipeline contribution and revenue impact. Market and competitive insight Conduct buyer research, win/loss analysis and competitor monitoring. Maintain up-to-date battlecards, personas and segmentation frameworks. Translate insight into practical recommendations that influence pricing, packaging and roadmap priorities. Sales enablement and value articulation Develop tools that help sales teams sell on value, not features. Create discovery guides, value propositions, objection-handling frameworks and business case support materials. Performance and impact Track product marketing contribution to win rates, deal size and growth. Use data to refine messaging, campaigns and GTM processes. Demonstrate tangible commercial impact from product marketing activity. AI Creation and management of AI agents in the PMM and GTM processes to drive efficiency and effectiveness Skills & Experience Significant product marketing experience, ideally within HR, Payroll or B2B SaaS. Experience delivering structured go-to-market plans in enterprise environments. Strong commercial awareness and comfort working with revenue metrics. Proven ability to turn complex product capability into simple, persuasive messaging. Experience supporting competitive intelligence and sales enablement programmes. Benefits & Culture At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Think scale. Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that s varied, flexible and hugely supportive. We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you ll receive: A competitive base salary. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday. Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%. A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.
