Work Flexibility: Hybrid Senior Lead HRIS Analyst, UKG Permanent Contract The Senior Lead HRIS Analyst serves as the functional and technical expert for UKG Workforce Management, supporting timekeeping and leave management processes across the organization. This role is responsible for ensuring system stability, supporting business operations, managing enhancements, and driving continuous improvement of UKG solutions. The individual will partner closely with HR, Payroll, Finance, Compliance, Audit, IT, and business stakeholders to optimize processes, resolve complex system issues, and support ongoing product releases and roadmap planning. The role will lead requirements gathering, solution design, testing, production support, and adoption of new UKG capabilities while maintaining alignment with enterprise HR technology strategy. What you will do: Serve as the subject matter expert for UKG (Kronos) timekeeping and leave management, providing functional and technical support to HR/business users and support teams, with a focus on European timekeeping and leaves functionality. Own production support and live-site stability by serving as the escalation point for complex UKG issues, driving root cause analysis, resolution, and corrective actions to prevent recurrence. Recommend and implement business process, reporting, and system changes that improve efficiency, user experience, and business outcomes. Evaluate UKG releases and new functionality (weekly, monthly, and twice-yearly), assessing impacts and providing recommendations for adoption within the change control process. Manage the enhancement backlog by evaluating, prioritizing, and delivering system improvements in partnership with business stakeholders. Configure, test, and document system, security, and reporting changes, defining tangible test use cases that align technology output to business objectives. Perform feasibility assessments of system/report modifications and enhancements, ensuring alignment with HRIS enterprise strategy and anticipating cause-and-effect impacts across integrated systems. Identify security issues/risks and provide solutions, while supporting audit activities and ensuring compliance with internal controls. Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with business users, business-facing HR, and HR COE teams, and provide consulting and insights to stakeholders at all levels. Create and manage reporting, data visualizations, and user interfaces, and train/educate users across the organization to enable best use of the system and reports. Who we want: Service-oriented professionals who take ownership of system stability, issue resolution, and end-user experience. Continuous improvement practitioners who proactively identify enhancement opportunities and drive adoption of new functionality. Relationship builders who partner across HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, Compliance, and business teams to support ongoing operations. What you will need: Required Bachelor's degree or equivalent required. 6+ years of HRIS experience required, with a focus on supporting production/live environments.

Experience

supporting timekeeping or leave systems, such as UKG (Kronos), strongly preferred. Demonstrated experience with production support, incident resolution, and root cause analysis. Preferred 3+ years supporting UKG Workforce Management (or an equivalent timekeeping and leave management platform). Ideally in a Manufacturing environment 2+ years business-facing HR, HR COE, HR Operations, or role-related experience.

Experience

with UKG configuration, security, reporting, and troubleshooting.

Experience

supporting global / European timekeeping and leave processes.

Experience

with release management, tenant/environment maintenance, and change governance.

Experience

with Boomi integrations.

Experience

with BIRT report creation, data visualization, and workforce analytics. #IJ United Kingdom Pay Ranges: United Kingdom: £51,700 - £86,200 GBP Annual Ireland Pay Ranges: Ireland: €62,000 - €105,000 EUR Annual Netherlands Pay Ranges: Netherlands: €68.400 - €127.000 EUR Annual At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package. If you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process. Travel Percentage: 10% Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com Work Flexibility Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location. Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based. Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category. Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.