Global HRIS Director
Global HRIS Director
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Global HRIS Director
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Who we are
You enjoy creating and innovating. You never stop striving for better. You take responsibility and you get results. You love being part of a team. Above all, you want your work to matter: Welcome to our world! At Sonova we create sense by bringing sound to life. Our innovative hearing care solutions help millions of people enjoy life’s unforgettable moments.
We offer exceptional career opportunities through market-leading brands from consumer to medical, products and services that keep pushing hearing care forward, and a culture where you can quickly belong and perform at your best.
If you want the freedom to explore, opportunities to grow, and make positive change on people lives through your work, this is the place for you.
Join Sonova. Create sense.
Global HRIS Director
The Global HRIS Director is accountable for shaping, delivering, and sustaining a global HR technology strategy that positions HR as a strategic enabler of business outcomes.
Acting as the bridge between HR and IT, the role ensures seamless system operations, harmonization of global HR platforms, and delivery of innovative, AI-enabled solutions that enhance the employee experience and generate actionable insights. The role will consolidate HR systems into a unified architecture, strengthen data integrity and compliance, and partner with leadership to execute a digital HR roadmap.
By combining deep HR domain expertise with proven IT know-how, the Global HRIS Director will ensure Sonova’s HR technology landscape is secure, compliant, scalable, and future-ready.
More about the role:
- Define, manage, and execute a 3–5 year roadmap covering systems consolidation, payroll harmonization, SuccessFactors expansion, analytics, and AI adoption with a major focus on end-user satisfaction and experience.
- Consolidate fragmented HR systems into a unified platform (SAP), ensuring seamless data flow across recruitment, payroll, learning, and analytics.
- Lead rollout and integration of Compensation, Talent Management, and LMS modules globally in SuccessFactors.
- Pilot and scale AI-driven solutions (e.g., predictive attrition, chatbots, skills intelligence, digital onboarding).
- Enable a skills-based workforce marketplace, enabling internal mobility and strategic workforce planning.
- Eliminate manual reporting through automation; implement global KPI frameworks and Power BI dashboards.
- Deploy a workforce planning tool that integrates quantitative (FTE/costs) and qualitative (skills/succession) planning into business cycles.
More about you:
- 10+ years of experience in the HRIS space with a minimum of 5 years of direct people management experience in a complex, global, and customer-facing business (industrial, retail, healthcare, consumer, etc.).
- Track record of designing and executing a large-scale HRIS transformation in line with business strategy (innovation, transformation, and change management).
- Deep experience in various SAP/SuccessFactors modules, ServiceNow (SNOW), integration, M&A, and change management, ideally across multiple business models (e.g., wholesale + retail).
- Demonstrated ability to build and coach high-performing teams across different geographies.
- Comfortable with contemporary digital HR tools, experience with leveraging data and people analytics to drive decisions and influence leaders.
- High learning agility (e.g. AI trends, developments, and opportunities), resilience, and comfort with ambiguity.
- Ability to simplify complexity, create clarity, and propose solutions.
More about what we offer
As one of the world’s leading hearing care providers headquartered in Switzerland, we’re committed to building an inclusive culture. We want to create an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work, through our flexible hybrid working model. We offer a wide range of training opportunities for both your professional and personal development, and there are exceptional growth opportunities with individual development plans.
For this vacancy, only direct applications will be considered.
Sonova is an equal opportunity employer.
We team up. We grow talent. We collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to win with the best team in the market place. We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of a candidate’s ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation or marital status, gender, genetic identity, age, disability or any other legally protected status.