Guide enterprise customers through AI-powered workflow implementation, from onboarding and process mapping to launch and adoption, coordinating stakeholders and translating customer needs into measurable business outcomes.
Payroll Implementation Manager
📜 Description
- Lead grape connect implementations for new and existing customers, from feasibility assessment through go-live.
- Assess technical feasibility, scope, estimate effort, and prepare quotations during pre-sales.
- Configure payroll interfaces, data transfers, wage type mappings, and technical accounts.
- Test payroll processes, daily allowance calculations, and data flows end to end with Customer Success.
- Build technical partnerships with HR and payroll system providers and drive standard integrations with an in-house engineer.
- Maintain accurate implementation documentation and improve configuration processes.
🛠️ Requirements
- 5+ years in client-facing roles managing concurrent implementations, with strong project management and technical pre-sales scoping experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on payroll experience, including wage type mapping and exports, employee data, and end-to-end payroll testing.
- Experience with payroll interfaces and data transfers, including API connections and CSV, TXT, XML, or JSON formats.
- Understand salary reductions during absence, continued salary payments, and daily allowance practices and calculations.
- Experience building and managing technical partnerships with software or system providers; enterprise HR and payroll systems are preferred.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration, business communication, attention to configuration accuracy, and initiative to improve processes.
- Proficient in German and English; Swiss German and French are a plus.
- Experience with absence data and knowledge of SAP and/or Abacus are nice to have.
✨ Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work schedule.
- One-off CHF 200 home office budget.
- Monthly internet allowance.
- Flexible working hours.
- Annual CHF 1,500 learning budget.
- Mental health sessions with Aepsy.
- Monthly team events and annual team retreats.
- 27 paid vacation days per year
- Wellness budget
- Additional parental and adoptive leave
Full job description
Your Role
As Payroll Implementation Manager, you own the technical implementation of grape connect, from pre-sales feasibility assessment through go-live, for new and existing customers. grape connect is our data standard linking customers’ payroll and HR systems to the grape platform, enabling automated insurance processes and absence management. You configure and test payroll and daily allowance (Krankentaggeld) set-ups, and build partnerships with HR and payroll system providers so future integrations get simpler and faster. You sit within Customer Success and work closely with Customer Success Managers, Sales, Engineering, external IT partners and customers to deliver a smooth, fast technical onboarding. And when you see a better way of doing things, you build it.
🍇 About grape: Our entrepreneurial spirit drives us in what we do and what we are passionate about. Our mission is to become the premier health partner in the insurance business. Recognising the need for innovation in the traditional employee insurance model we are set to revolutionize the employee insurance industry. We help companies support people before and after they get sick and to make more of their time. Our insurance solutions reduce monotonous and manual work for employees, doctors, HR & payroll managers. As we strive to lead a technology-driven transformation, we put employees first. At grape we pride ourselves on our people and our culture. We continue to grow fast and that’s where you come in. Our team is dynamic, diverse and full of creative ideas. Want to join? We can’t wait to get to know you! 🤝 What we offer in return: 🌱 Empowering workplace: Join a passionate team and an empowering workplace where you are given the ownership, tools, and support to make decisions and take initiative. Together we grow and build innovative solutions. 💻 Hybrid setup: Enjoy the flexibility of our hybrid work schedule, with the freedom to work remotely or from our office in Zurich. On Thursdays, our team day, we meet together in our Zurich office. 🪑 Home office stipend: To enable our hybrid setup, we allocate a one-off CHF 200.- home office budget to help you set up your dream workspace in the comfort of your own home. 🌐 Internet allowance: We give you a monthly internet allowance to help cover your internet costs at home and enable you to work seamlessly from your home office. ⏳ Flexible working time: You can distribute your working hours the way you want to. 🧠 Learning budget: We support you in improving your skills, acquiring new knowledge and advancing your career. We also allocate a CHF 1'500.- budget annually ❤️🩹 Well-being: Work-life balance is important to us and we foster a supportive work environment. We support you with mental health sessions with our partner Aepsy. 🎫 Team events: Every month we gather for fun and engaging events where we can connect and bond with our colleagues and our teams. ✈️ Team retreats: Once a year we travel somewhere nice to bond with our colleagues. 🚂 Travel and commute: We will cover your SBB half fare card, so we can spend some time together in the office. 🌴 Paid vacation: You get 5 weeks (25 days) of paid vacation every year and 2 additional days of paid vacation to compensate for canton-related holidays, religious holidays, birthdays, etc. The total amount of paid vacation days per year is 27 days. 🧖♀️ Wellness budget: Health and well-being looks different for everyone. You can optimize your wellness budget to best fit your needs. 👨👨👦👦 Parental and adoptive leave: We offer additional time off to support employees who are balancing family and work time in the most crucial stages of family life. ✈️ Digital nomad: For every 3 years of employment, you can work for an extended period of time from anywhere in the world (location subject to review). 🏁 Our recruitment process We place particular emphasis on four areas when making our selection decision: professional and technical skills, mindset & values. We evaluate these through the following steps: Step 1 - Your motivation To get to know you better, we invite you to a 30-minute motivational interview with our Talent Acquisition Team. Step 2 - Role fit In the first interview, we assess how well your qualifications and skills align with the role requirements. This discussion will take place with your Hiring Manager. Step 3 - Case study For roles with higher technical demands, we will invite you to complete a case study or technical assessment. This allows us to better evaluate your specific skills and problem-solving abilities. Step 4 - Our culture connect Throughout the interview process, you'll gain insight into our company culture, and we'll explore how your values and mindset align with our ways of working. The final interview will offer a deeper look into this connection, along with broader discussions about the role and our vision. Our diverse experiences, perspectives, and voices make us the company we are, and we would love to learn more about you! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Health is our foundation. Innovation drives our mission. Together, we’re building the future of employee insurance. At grape, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, it’s the foundation of how we work, live, and succeed. From bold brainstorms and lessons learned, we overcome challenges side by side. Our time together is our greatest asset. Disrupting an industry that truly needs change takes courage, creativity, and team spirit and that’s exactly what defines us. With well-being at the core, we foster an environment where ideas and people thrive. Your growth matters as much as our mission. Whether it’s supporting your self-care, developing new solutions, or redefining how health and insurance connect, we grow together. Our values guide us every step of the way: keeping Health at Heart, Inventing Together, and always striving to Embrace Clarity.What you'll do:
Customer-facing Implementation & Pre-Sales
Payroll Configuration & Testing
Technical Partnerships
What you'll need:
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