North America Payroll Manager (Nashville, TN)

The North America Payroll Manager is responsible for leading end-to-end payroll operations for the US and Canada, ensuring payroll is processed accurately, timely, and in compliance with applicable policies and requirements. The role provides strong payroll expertise and oversight across payroll processing, complex transactions, pay-related data changes, approvals, audits, reconciliations, controls, and issue resolution. The Payroll Manager drives continuous improvement and operational efficiency through process standardization, optimization, and LEAN principles, while strengthening payroll controls and service delivery. The role also leads and develops the payroll team through effective workforce and capacity planning, training, coaching, and technical guidance to build a high-performing payroll organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-End Payroll Operations : Bring strong payroll expertise and hands-on knowledge of payroll processing to ensure employees are paid accurately, timely, and compliantly, including oversight of payroll inputs, calculations, interfaces, reconciliations, controls, and issue resolution.

• Drive Payroll Operational Excellence : Build and lead a strong, efficient payroll operation with clear processes, controls, accountability, and performance standards, while continuously identifying opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve payroll delivery.

• Lead & Develop a High-Performing Payroll Team: Provide strong day-to-day leadership, coaching, and technical guidance to the payroll team, ensuring the right capabilities, capacity, and ownership are in place to deliver consistent, high-quality results.

Minimum required Education:

Minimum required Experience:

Minimum 5 years of experience with Bachelor's in areas such as Human Resources, Organizational Transformation, Process Optimization, Payroll Management, Accounting, HR Technology and Digitization, Recruiting or equivalent OR no prior experience required with Master's Degree.

Minimum required Certification:

Certified Payroll Professional certification

You are the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 5+ years of experience with Bachelor's in areas such as Human Resources, Organizational Transformation, Process Optimization, Payroll Management, Accounting, HR Technology and Digitization, Recruiting or equivalent OR no prior experience required with Master's Degree. Minimum required certification as a Certified Payroll Professional.

• Your skills include exempt/non-exempt/non-union/union payroll; people management (team of 8+); experience using Workday (time-tracking) and ADP for payroll; and full understanding of payroll systems and policies. Additional experience with 401K, bonus!

• You have a Bachelor's/ Master's Degree in Human Resources, Communications, Business Administration, Organization Development or equivalent.

• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

About Philips:

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in Plymouth, Minnesota is $93,000 to $148,000.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives, may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here.

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.

Additional information:

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Nashville, TN.

It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

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