Project Manager

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At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

The Workday Success Plans Team are all about our customers and their entire journey with Workday - we create programs to help them drive business value from their Workday applications. The team is responsible for delivering a variety of programs and services to our customers ranging from feature demonstrations to guidance during their deployments.


At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too! We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

About the Role

The Advisory Services Project Manager will simultaneously handle several projects, coordinating the delivery of packaged services to customers of all sizes and industries around the world. Project Managers drive the execution of projects, ensuring success, efficiency and quality via project management practices (e.g., develop project staffing plan, coordinate system access, conducting meetings, etc.) and by handling the customer relationship. Within these projects, Project Managers serve as an advocate for Workday, our employees and our customers in equal measure, to complete projects under budget and on time per the definition of each service.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading projects to deliver Workday Success Plans programs and services.

• Clearly and successfully communicating project objectives and delivery strategies.

• Becoming a specialist in Workday Success Plans offering and educating customers throughout the project.

• Balancing the needs of a large number of concurrent projects.

• Providing guidance and mentoring to consultants working on your projects.

• Ensuring projects are accurately planned and staffed.

• Working with the client project manager to identify and resolve issues that could impact project scope or timeframe.

• Leading customer meetings and Workday internal operational meetings.

• Ensuring customers can serve as a reference upon completion of their project.

• Completing project administration tasks such as updating project forecasts, assisting with team scheduling, and other internal project initiation and closure tasks.

​For Project Managers, each quarter you are expected to spend at least 50% of your time in a Workday office, with the flexibility to spend half your time working from home.

About You

Basic Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of project management experience with HCM, Payroll, or Financial implementations within medium and small enterprise

• Proven track record implementing Workday Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or similar applications

Other Qualifications:

• Passion for customer service

• Excellent organization, time management, verbal and written communication skills

• Solid understanding of at least one of the following business areas: Human Resources, Benefits, Payroll, General Ledger, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Services Procurement

• Capable of influencing, interacting and collaborating with senior executives, internally and externally

• Ability to work on multiple engagements simultaneously

• Ability to travel up to 10%

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!