HRIS Manager

About Meridian

Meridian Bioscience is a fully integrated life science company that develops, manufactures, markets and distributes a broad range of innovative diagnostic products. We are dedicated to developing and delivering better solutions that give answers with speed, accuracy and simplicity that are redefining the possibilities of life from discovery to diagnosis. We are looking for talented and passionate individuals that help drive our vision.

Our innovative culture will allow interested candidates to discover and create, through collaboration, cutting edge solutions to tough problems.

Meridian Bioscience is a fully integrated life science company that develops, manufactures, markets and distributes a broad range of innovative diagnostic products. We are dedicated to developing and delivering better solutions that give answers with speed, accuracy and simplicity that are redefining the possibilities of life from discovery to diagnosis. We are looking for talented and passionate individuals that help drive our vision.

Our innovative culture will allow interested candidates to discover and create, through collaboration, cutting edge solutions to tough problems.

The HRIS Manager provides operational leadership for Meridian's HR technology ecosystem, with Workday serving as the core platform supporting HR Operations and Centers of Excellence. The role owns day-to-day governance and administration of assigned HRIS areas, including system configuration, security, integrations, reporting standards, data quality, change control, and release support. In partnership with designated process owners, the Manager translates approved requirements into controlled system solutions;

directs the HRIS Analyst; and establishes standards and controls for basic Workday transactions performed by the HR Coordinator and other approved users. The role ensures stable operations, privacy, audit readiness, and user adoption while leaving policy, program, and business decisions with the assigned functional owners.

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities:

• Maintains the HRIS operating model and Workday roadmap for assigned areas, governance model, system architecture standards, configuration standards, service model, and decision rights in alignment with HR and business priorities.
• Supports implementation of new Workday products/SKUs and modules, major enhancements, release adoption, and cross-functional HR technology projects for assigned areas; manages vendors, risks, timelines, and adoption outcomes.
• Leads requirements discovery and end-to-end solution design for business processes, workflows, approvals, notifications, reporting, integrations, and controls based on requirements approved by designated process owners; ensures solutions are scalable, documented, and aligned with global and local requirements.
• Owns Workday architecture and high-risk configuration within assigned areas across Core HCM, job and position structures, compensation structures, workforce and talent processes, security, integrations, and reporting; delegates routine administration to the HRIS Analyst and approved basic transactions to the HR Coordinator or other operational users.
• Establishes and enforces change-control and release practices, including impact assessment, peer review, testing and user acceptance, migration, production validation, rollback planning, and retention of implementation evidence.
• Owns Workday security and data-privacy governance, including role-based access, least-privilege standards, segregation of duties, security approvals, periodic access reviews, and audit evidence in partnership with IT, Internal Audit, Legal/Compliance, and data owners.
• Directs integration, data-governance, reporting, and analytics standards; maintains integration inventories and runbooks, oversees data audits and exception management, and leads resolution of complex interface, data-feed, and vendor issues.
• Defines the HRIS support and knowledge-management model; provides Tier 2 and Tier 3 escalation support, leads root-cause analysis, and ensures procedures, job aids, training, and release communications support consistent user adoption.
• Partners with Center of Excellence leaders, HR Business Partner/Client Support, Global HR Service Delivery, the US Payroll Manager, Finance, IT, Internal Audit, Legal/Compliance, and local HR to translate approved program and process requirements into system solutions; HRIS provides technical enablement and does not make unassigned policy or business decisions.
• Leads, coaches, and develops the HRIS Analyst and establishes access, training, validation, and quality standards for basic Workday data entry performed by the HR Coordinator and other approved users; ensures cross-training, backup coverage, and business continuity.
• Establishes reporting and analytics governance, data definitions, quality standards, and delivery priorities for workforce, compliance, sustainability, and operational reporting; partners with HR, Finance,…