Consolidate a fragmented 101-country payroll landscape onto two global providers, ADP and Ramco, alongside Workday and a supporting document management platform.
Meet country-specific statutory and payroll compliance requirements and support SAP and SAP HANA retirement where required, without disrupting employee salary payments.
Coordinate delivery across EMEA, APAC and LATAM, spanning multiple time zones, cultures and affiliates with widely differing readiness and complexity.
Manage critical dependencies with the concurrent One Roche One IT operating-model transformation and the Aspire core-systems programme, amid shifting ownership and delivery locations.
Establish a scalable delivery model, mobilise the IT implementation teams and restart country workstreams that had remained stalled for up to a year.
Profexec Contribution
Designed the global country-rollout methodology and wave plan, sequencing affiliates by readiness, availability and complexity and using lower-complexity early deployments to build team capability and working routines.
Built and led an approximately 27-person IT team covering implementation, integration, architecture, data migration and archiving; synchronised the team with Workday and business workstreams.
Led Polaris across LATAM and APAC and Boreal across EMEA, while aligning dependencies with Aurora in Switzerland, Germany and China and with the One Roche One IT and Aspire programmes.
Standardised discovery and business-analysis activities, implementation-planning templates, country cut-over planning, architecture and integration forums, and executive status reporting.
Directed migration and archiving design and established rigorous local-readiness, parallel-run, rollback and cut-over controls to protect payroll continuity.
Reorganised the IT team around agile ways of working, using daily stand-ups and disciplined backlog management to improve transparency, predictability and scalability.
Results & Business Impact
Delivered 18 successful country go-lives on schedule, including Mexico and Portugal, while progressing multiple additional affiliates in parallel.
Completed all go-lives under the engagement with zero critical payroll disruptions and no severe compliance failures.
Restarted the previously stalled Mexico and Brazil workstreams within three months by resetting leadership, mobilising the teams and applying the new delivery method.
Turned non-performing project branches into productive delivery streams and gave team members clear ownership, repeatable routines and confidence in the path to success.
Handed over a scalable operating model with established processes, templates, governance forums and completed reference deployments, enabling the remaining country rollout to continue consistently.
Capabilities Demonstrated
Global IT Transformation and Programme Leadership
Multi-country Payroll and Human Capital Management Transformation
Programme Governance, Delivery Management and Executive Reporting
Cross-cultural Matrix-team Leadership and Stakeholder Management
Architecture, Integration, Data Migration and Master Data Governance
Agile Delivery, Operational Standardisation and Scalable Team Design
Risk, Cut-over, Business-continuity and Compliance Management
