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
