HR Systems Specialist - 18 months Mat Cover (Senior HR Digital Systems Officer)
Oxford, GB
Join Us in Changing Lives
At OXB, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re on a mission to enable life-changing therapies to reach patients around the world—and we’re looking for passionate individuals who embody our core values every day: Responsible, Responsive, Resilient, and Respectful.
We’re currently recruiting for a HR Systems Specialist (SuccessFactors) to join our HR team for an 18-month maternity cover. In this role, you will work closely with the HR team and wider business to provide solutions for efficiency and enablement of automated processes, as well as data and analytics to support talent strategies, playing a key part in advancing our mission and making a real difference.
Your responsibilities in this role would be:
System-related Configuration and Testing
- Lead or support implementation/process improvement projects
- Maintenance of permission roles, workflows, business rules
- Configuration of system changes, for example adding new fields; portlets; form templates; route maps; adding / updating picklists and tables
- Support annual processes, such as, performance and compensation cycles, system upgrades, absence – holiday and sickness calendars
Systems Support
- Monthly SuccessFactors induction for new starters
- Provide systems guidance and support to employees, managers, and the HR team, creating user guides to ensure the HR system is a ‘source of truth’, updating the OXB intranet as required
Reporting
- A key project for this role is to convert standard table and canvas reports to story reporting
- Create and provide reports for business enablement, providing analysis / storytelling, so the data can be used effectively.
- Provide HR and finance monthly reporting on headcount; dashboards; data and analytics; position management
We are looking for:
- Experience of SuccessFactors system administration is essential. This includes experience with implementation, configuration, testing and then creating end user training and guidance material.
- Have a forward-thinking, business focussed approach to ensure any configuration / process changes within SuccessFactors consider the impact / risk to the system
- Ability to analyse complex configuration problems working from first principles and up through to hypothesise factors which impact, to identify and propose solutions for system problems.
- Advanced knowledge of system reporting, with the ability to convert standard table and canvas reports to story reporting. Capable of linking data from multiple tables and producing reports and dashboards. Understand OXB’s talent strategy and goals so that data can be analysed, providing a synopsis of the data to HR and the wider business.
- Good communicator with an ability to ensure a good end user experience for our employees and managers
About Us:
OXB is a quality and innovation-led viral vector CDMO with a mission to enable its clients to deliver life changing therapies to patients around the world. One of the original pioneers in cell and gene therapy, we have more than 30 years of experience in viral vectors; the driving force behind the majority of gene therapies.
OXB collaborates with some of the world’s most innovative pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, providing viral vector development and manufacturing expertise in lentivirus, adeno-associated virus (AAV) and adenoviral vectors. OXB’s world-class capabilities span from early-stage development to commercialisation. These capabilities are supported by robust quality-assurance systems, analytical methods, and depth of regulatory expertise.
Why Join Us?
- 💸 Competitive total reward packages
- 🧘 Wellbeing programmes that support your mental and physical health
- 🚀 Career development opportunities to help you grow and thrive
- 🤝 Supportive, inclusive, and collaborative culture
- 🧪 State-of-the-art labs and manufacturing facilities
- 🌍 A company that lives its values: Responsible, Responsive, Resilient, Respect
We want you to feel inspired every day. At OXB, we’re future-focused and growing fast. We succeed together—through passion, commitment, and teamwork.
Ready to Make a Difference?
Collaborate. Contribute. Change lives.