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Associate Director / Senior Workday Engagement Manager - Precision Task Group
Software Engineer
Senior leader overseeing large-scale Workday implementations, driving project planning, risk mitigation, and client delivery while mentoring consultants and ensuring on-budget, on-schedule outcomes.
About the role
Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Expertise in Workday's Implementation Methodology
- Understanding of the Workday product suite - HCM, Payroll, Financials, and/or Student
- Manage 2 large and 4+ medium enterprise Workday full platform product implementations in the Project Manager role
- Ensure projects are properly planned and staffed
- Track issues and risks, communicate status, and escalate concerns
- Provide guidance and mentoring to consultants working on their implementations
- Work with the client project manager to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframes
- Ensure the project is delivered within the budget outlined in the SOW
- Present client with change orders in the event they're asking Workday to perform tasks that are outside the scope of the SOW
- Present at Executive Steering Committee meetings
- Ensure Workday compliance and scorecard updates are completed
- Assist in the transition of the customer from professional services to product support
- Ensure the client can serve as a reference upon completing their implementation
- Participate in the sales cycle when requested to gather requirements, formulate a delivery approach, and develop a proposal/SOW
- Identify opportunities to position other service offerings
- Mentor other project managers and develop tools and templates to support projects
- Support the Workday Practice Operations as needed
- Provide oversight to various projects as needed
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in implementation experience as a project manager with HCM, Payroll, and Financials.
- 5+ years as a Workday Engagement Manager at a Partner Consulting firm
- Led multiple Workday platform implementations from start to completion, preferably within the public sector
- Workday Local/State/Agency government implementation experience is required. Higher Education experience is a plus.
- Proficiency in Smartsheet and Microsoft Office
Originally posted on Himalayas