Global Time & Attendance Executive Director

Lead a global function with enterprise accountability for the strategy, controls, service performance, employee and manager experience, and technology and data priorities across Time and Attendance. You will shape a multi-year transformation agenda to standardize fragmented processes, reduce avoidable demand and payroll leakage, strengthen prevention and remediation, and deliver a scalable operating model that accommodates approved local and regulatory requirements. This is a high-impact leadership role requiring strong cross-functional partnership, disciplined execution, and data-informed decision-making.

As an Executive Director, Global Time, Absence and In-Office Attendance in Global Time and Attendance , you will define and execute the enterprise strategy, target operating model, and multi-year transformation roadmap for a simplified, consistent, and customer-focused Time and Attendance experience. You will establish clear governance, decision rights, and accountability; sustain global service performance; resolve material issues; and partner across Human Resources, Payroll, Technology, Controls, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and regional teams to deliver scalable solutions with appropriate local flexibility. Success requires connecting strategic transformation with day-to-day operational discipline, influencing across functions and regions, making data-informed investment decisions, and building a high-performing global capability.

Job responsibilities

- Define and execute the global strategy, target operating model, and multi-year transformation roadmap
- Standardize policies, processes, controls, service expectations, and governance across regions, allowing approved local variation where required
- Own sustained global service performance across demand, quality, customer experience, risk, financial impact, and delivery
- Establish a disciplined performance rhythm, decision forums, escalation paths, and timely resolution of material operational issues
- Clarify enterprise decision rights and accountability across Human Resources, Payroll, Technology, Controls, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and regional partners
- Lead workforce strategy, capability building, succession planning, and the development of global Time and Attendance subject-matter expertise
- Simplify the end-to-end employee and manager journey by reducing handoffs, clarifying guidance and ownership, and improving transparency and resolution speed
- Reduce avoidable demand through root-cause elimination, proactive communications, self-service, automation, and preventative interventions
- Own effective control design, regulatory compliance, issue remediation, and reduction of payroll corrections, overpayments, underpayments, and clawbacks
- Establish global data definitions, governance, analytics, and decision-quality executive reporting
- Set the technology roadmap by defining business requirements, prioritizing investments, improving systems/integrations/digital capabilities, developing business cases, and tracking benefits realization to deliver measurable reductions in financial leakage

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

- 10+ years of relevant experience in Human Resources Operations, Time and Attendance, Payroll, Human Resources Service Delivery, Human Resources Product, workforce management, or a related field
- 7+ years leading complex teams, functions, or enterprise transformation initiatives in a global or highly regulated environment
- Demonstrated success standardizing global processes while balancing enterprise requirements with regional and regulatory obligations
- Strong capability across strategy, service operations, risk and controls, data governance, technology, financial management, and benefits realization
- Proven ability to simplify complex processes, reduce avoidable demand, improve customer outcomes, and deliver measurable business value
- Executive presence and influence, including experience establishing governance, making cross-functional decisions, resolving escalations, and leading through ambiguity
- Ability to build inclusive, high-performing teams and strengthen workforce capability, succession, and subject-matter expertise

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

- Experience with enterprise timekeeping, attendance, leave, disability, accommodation, or absence management capabilities and journeys
- Human-centered/service design expertise, supported by digital and data fluency across employee, manager, and Human Resources experiences
- Experience working across jurisdictions and shaping Human Resources platform roadmaps, requirements, testing, implementation, and adoption