Global Transformation Lead

Global Transformation Lead at Sability

Sability, an honored two-time award recipient of the UKG HCM Services Partner of the Year, four-time UKG + Raven Intelligence Voice of the Customer Award winner, and 2025 UKG White Glove Services Partner of the Year, is seeking a Global Transformation Lead. This pivotal role drives enterprise-scale HR, Payroll, Workforce, and Digital transformation for mid-market and enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will lead global change, operating model design, and adoption strategy across complex HCM and workforce initiatives, ensuring measurable business outcomes and sustainable transformation. Join our award-winning team and experience a culture committed to excellence.

Role Overview

The Global Transformation Lead blends strategy, transformation leadership, executive advisory, and change management expertise. This role is crucial for 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.
• Familiarity with HCM / Payroll ecosystems (UKG, Workday, ADP, SAP, Oracle, Dayforce).
• 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.

Key skills/competency

• Enterprise Transformation
• Change Management
• HR Technology
• Global Payroll
• Operating Model Design
• Executive Advisory
• HCM Ecosystems (UKG, Workday, SAP)
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Program Leadership
• Digital Transformation