Workday Project Manager

Responsibilities

•            Successfully manage delivery of end-to-end Workday HCM project

•            Develop full-scale project plans and associated communication strategy.

•            Create and manage roadmaps, manage day to day monitoring tasks and activities, and initiate corrective action where necessary in order to keep the project on track.

•            Effectively communicate project expectations to internal and external project team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion

•            Manage the contract based on agreed scope as defined in Statement of Work, manage scope creep, ensure change requests are clearly called out, agreed, and impacted against timeline

•            Continually assess action items, risks, and issues maintaining risk and issue logs and contingency plans

•            Validate the time spent and work performed by external implementation partner resources and escalate deviations from resource plans

•            Develop and deliver progress reports and escalate any issues, as appropriate, in a timely manner

•            Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path deliverables

•            Develop and maintain backlog of product enhancements to meet tactical needs and strategic goals

•            Ensure that proper approvals are completed at appropriate project milestones, and ensure adherence to all standard components of the system development lifecycle

•            Lead regular project reviews with Project Team, and with project stakeholders and senior management to keep the project on track and on budget

•            Participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process

Qualifications

•            5+ years of relevant Workday HCM experience

•            2 years of experience leading Workday HCM projects and workstreams

•            Experience with leading end-to-end Workday HCM implementation project

•            Workday HCM or Workday EM/PM Certified preferred – this is just preferred, not required

•            Bachelor's degree

•            Strong verbal and written communications skills.

•            Ability to understand business processes & requirements.

•            Excellent organizational skills and ability to juggle multiple tasks