Core HR Integration - Senior Project Manager

Talan – Positive Innovation

Talan is an international consulting group specializing in innovation and business transformation through technology. With over 7,200 consultants in 21 countries and a turnover of €850M, we are committed to delivering impactful, future-ready solutions.

Talan at a Glance

Headquartered in Paris and operating globally, Talan combines technology, innovation, and empowerment to deliver measurable results for our clients. Over the past 22 years, we’ve built a strong presence in the IT and consulting landscape, and we’re on track to reach €1 billion in revenue this year.

Our Core Areas of Expertise

• Data & Technologies: We design and implement large-scale, end-to-end architecture and data solutions, including data integration, data science, visualization, Big Data, AI, and Generative AI.
  
  
  
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  Cloud & Application Services: We integrate leading platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, and IBM Maximo, helping clients transition to the cloud and improve operational efficiency.
  
  
  
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  Management & Innovation Consulting: We lead business and digital transformation initiatives through project and change management best practices (PM, PMO, Agile, Scrum, Product Ownership), and support domains such as Supply Chain, Cybersecurity, and ESG/Low-Carbon strategies.
  
  
  
  
  
  

We work with major global clients across diverse sectors, including Transport & Logistics, Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Retail, and Media & Telecommunications.

Job Description

Location: Madrid, Spain - Relocation is Mandatory

Set up: Hybrid (1 day/week)

Within the framework of a transversal initiative across a global financial group, the objective is to implement a single HR platform designed to empower employees and managers, ensure data reliability, reinforce compliance, and support operational excellence. As part of this transformation, locally hosted HR applications must be replaced by the group-wide Core HR solution built on Oracle HCM.

The project has an overall duration of three years and is divided into three deployment waves. The scope of this RFP covers the year 2026, with the possibility of extension for the following years.

In this context, the Corporate and Investment Banking division is responsible for overseeing the integration of Core HR with its application landscape and has assigned its IT department in Spain to lead the integration effort with local applications across 17 European countries under its remit.

The project includes:

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   Technical migration – extract, transform and load legacy HR data into Oracle HCM.
   
   
   
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   System integration – connect Oracle HCM with existing payroll, talent-management and other third-party HR solutions.
   
   
   
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   Change management & training – prepare users, deliver training material and support the go-live phase.
   
   
   
   

Expected Derivables for the Project Manager

• Detailed project plan & schedule
• Governance model (steering-committee minutes, KPI dashboards, risk & issue logs)
• Stakeholder-communication plan
• Change-management & training coordination
• Demand-management (JIRA) and alignment with the group-wide application-landscape strategy
  
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Definition and maintenance of the project plan in collaboration with internal teams and external providers.
• Risk identification and implementation of corrective action plans, ensuring that deliverables defined during the Global Design Phase are delivered on time.
• Ensuring communication between business lines, IT, and service-provider teams.
• Support to the Head of Program through preparation and facilitation of information for steering-committee and project meetings, and provision of the required reporting to Group-Program instances.
• Management of project documentation (plans, reports, minutes, etc.) with version control and central storage.
• Application of project-management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) appropriate to the scope and complexity of the initiative.
• Management and follow-up of compliance activities, supporting the central Group team in validating the solution with local regulators before implementation and liaising with local compliance experts to ensure that implementation criteria are well-assessed, documented, and approved.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• 8 + years of IT project management, client-facing, risk & issue management
• Governance (JIRA, demand-management)
• Agile/Waterfall methodology
• Strong technical background and experience on technical migration projects and integration among different information systems.
  
  
  

Languages (mandatory)

• Fluent English
• Fluent Spanish
  
  
  

Additional Information

What do we offer you?

• Hybrid position based in Madrid, Spain
• Possibility to manage work permits.
• Permanent, full-time contract.
• Smart Office Pack so that you can work comfortably from home.
• Training and career development.
• Benefits and perks such as private medical insurance, life insurance, Language lessons, etc
• Possibility to be part of a multicultural team and work on international projects.
  
  
  

If you are passionate about data, development & tech, we want to meet you!

Talan Spain’s commitment to non-discrimination based on gender, race, ideology, or any other reason, in accordance with the company’s "Equality Plan" and the current regulations on gender equality between women and men (Royal Decree-Law 6/2019).