Global Transformation Lead — Strategy, Change, & Global Payroll
Remote, United States/Canada
Sability is honored to have been a two-time award recipient of the UKG HCM Services Partner of the Year, the four-time award recipient of the UKG + Raven Intelligence Voice of the Customer Award and the 2025 UKG White Glove Services Partner of the Year. Whether it’s working with customers, collaborating with our business partners, or helping a fellow team member, Sability just does it better than the rest. Join our team and experience the culture of an award-winning team!
Role Overview:
Sability is seeking a Global Transformation Lead to drive enterprise-scale HR, Payroll, Workforce, and Digital transformation for mid-market and enterprise clients. This role leads global change, operating model design, and adoption strategy across complex HCM and workforce initiatives, ensuring measurable business outcomes and sustainable transformation.
The ideal candidate blends strategy, transformation leadership, executive advisory, and change management, with experience driving multi-country rollouts, system enablement, and global workforce modernization.
Key Responsibilities:
Transformation & Strategy Leadership
Lead global transformation programs across HR, Payroll, Workforce Management, and enterprise operations
Develop roadmaps, business cases, and execution plans aligned to client strategy and growth
Drive multi-region deployments, balancing global standardization with local requirements
Change Management & Adoption
Design and execute enterprise change and adoption strategies for HCM and workforce platforms
Conduct impact assessments, readiness planning, stakeholder engagement, and enablement
Build learning, communications, and adoption campaigns that improve system usage and behavioral change
Establish metrics to track adoption, ROI, and transformation success
Operating Model & Governance Design
Define future-state HR, Payroll, and service delivery operating models
Create governance frameworks, decision structures, and scalable transformation playbooks
Improve speed-to-value, process efficiency, and post-go-live stability
Executive Advisory & Client Leadership
Serve as a trusted advisor to CHROs, CIOs, Payroll leaders, and Transformation Sponsors
Lead executive workshops, strategic assessments, and transformation planning sessions
Translate insights into clear, executive-ready recommendations and outcomes
HCM, Workforce, & Global Payroll Enablement
Support HCM Technology and Global Payroll transformation initiatives
Align people, process, technology, and data to enable scalable workforce solutions
Partner with delivery teams to ensure business value realization and adoption success
Success Metrics
Adoption & engagement outcomes
Client satisfaction & transformation impact
Value realization & operational efficiency gains
Scalability of transformation frameworks
Strength of executive partnerships
Qualifications
7–10+ years in enterprise transformation, change management, HR tech, or consulting
Experience leading global or multi-country transformation initiatives
Strong expertise in operating model design, stakeholder advisory, and adoption strategy
Executive presence, strong storytelling, and data-driven decision-making
Prosci or equivalent change certification preferred
Why Sability:
At Sability, we help organizations modernize HR, Payroll, and Workforce operations through Strategy & Advisory, Change Management, and UKG-powered transformation. This role offers the opportunity to shape enterprise transformation, influence executive leaders, and build scalable change capabilities across global clients.
About Sability:
Sability is the Human Capital Management (HCM) industry’s premier UKG partner and a leading HCM strategy and advisory consulting firm. We specialize in full suite HCM and WFM Pro & Ready serving both global and regional organizations. For nearly three decades, we have helped companies navigate HCM modernization, from strategic consulting to system implementations to technical services to managed services.
Our mission is simple: we help our clients achieve their HCM goals and transform their organizations.
Our culture is unique: we have a t-shirt and jeans attitude, while providing white glove services.
Our results people-oriented: We measure our success by how much we help others.
Sability team members are known for their ability to leverage their knowledge to help our customers, stay calm in a stressful situation, and maintain confidence – while delivering services in highly visible situations. From sunny San Diego to bustling Toronto, and the beaches in Ft Lauderdale to the slopes of Vancouver, and everywhere in between, our award-winning team has a spot for you! Working remotely is nothing new to us, we’ve been doing it successfully for over 20 years.
Experienced HCM consultants choose Sability for our flexible work environment and sense of pride and ownership in the success of our clients. We offer virtual full-time employment opportunities across the US and Canada and are a five-time recipient of SHRM’s “When Work Works” award for workplace flexibility. As a high-growth company, we have also been recognized as a member of the Inc. 5000 and one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces. If you want to be a part of that, you’re at the right place. Sability is always on the move, and we’re always seeking the best talent and the most unique perspectives.