The Workday Program/Project Manager will have a proven track record of implementing cloud SaaS ERP projects for large, complex initiatives. You will lead a large, cross-functional project team and provide an organizational view of project/program dependencies, stakeholder, and risk impacts. The lead will have effective communication skills, organizational awareness, and ability to manage critical dependencies and impacts.

This is a long-term contract position, (est. 2+ years.) Candidates residing in GA preferred, out of state candidates will be considered for a 100% remote work schedule.

What You Need for this Position

Technical Project Management experience
Operations Management
Change Management
Release Management
Project Management Tools

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Lead and manage Workday planning and execution activities.
Collaborate with program teams, technical teams, and implementer resources to build out a detailed project schedule to include tasks for all areas (technical reports, integration, security) and functional (HCM and Finance)
Field questions and escalations regarding cutover activities and work with the cutover team to close open items.
Manage cutover tasks, risks, issues, and project timelines to assure progress towards cutover completion
Work with the appropriate system owners, business and technical subject-matter-experts, and workstreams to ensure cutover and system remediation processes, deliverables, and milestones are developed and completed.
Provide comprehensive reporting of cutover activities, challenges and risks. Coordinate with project teams to develop risk mitigation approaches and ensure on time go live
Prepare and deliver metric reporting to track progress against planned activities
Escalate items that would impact go live date
Lead and participate in the cutover planning, cutover plan review, capture of cutover activity timeframes/durations, mock cutover, and cutover execution activities.

Essential Skills

Prior experience as a Workday Implementation Project/Program Manager (must have managed multiple Workday components)
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
10 years of IT experience
5 years of Workday SaaS ERP experience
10 years of prior project management experience
Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate in various situations and audiences
Prior experience with state or other public sector clients
Excellent organizational skills and a leader in the change process
Ability to collaborate and drive execution at all levels within a business area
Expertise in documentation, presentation tools, and project management tools
Excellent skills in critical thinking and analysis
Ability to establish strong working relationships across IT, business lines and external stakeholders
Group facilitation skills, negotiation and ability to influence and drive decisions
Possess understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture and ability to clearly guide and articulate needs for successful implementation and organization management

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