Director, Global HRIS

Job Description

The Global Workday System Manager is responsible for the technical and functional management of the Workday system within the organization. This role oversees overall process efficiency, data integrity, and analyzes business opportunities to streamline, automate, and improve the Workday platform.

This leader provides strategic guidance to Global HRIS Managers, Subject Matter Experts, Business Processes Leaders, and Project Teams, serving as the HR Project Lead during system implementations, upgrades, or changes. They are responsible for leading HRIS Team Leaders in providing functional and analytical support for core HR business processes, including Recruiting, Payroll, Absence, Learning, Performance, and Talent Management, as well as integrating various HRIS systems.

This position is available in a Hybrid (Houston) or Remote format.

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Manage and oversee the team of Global HRIS managers and colleagues performing functional requirements gathering, configuration, and testing of all Workday impacts across the HR function.
2. Involvement in all aspects of mid-to-large-scale Workday system enhancement projects, including developing and maintaining standards, tools, and templates for Workday configuration activities.
3. Work with the HR Governance leader to assess change requests, ensuring business justification, financial analysis, and timeline impacts are quantified.
4. Partner with Centers of Excellence (COEs) to understand business priorities and advise on technology capabilities, review and prioritize enhancement requests, and uncover opportunities for automation.
5. Evaluate and ensure that system enhancements, new processes, and integrations, in partnership with HR technology, are properly documented and tested.
6. Provide project management leadership and communications for projects, anticipating needs, raising risks, and proposing mitigation plans.
7. Partner with HR Operations/Shared Services for impacts to system configuration, service center impacts, and overall colleague experience.
8. Support best practices for managing projects, reporting status, planning for change, and measuring success throughout HR.
9. Anticipate and identify potential issues and risks that may impact program implementation.
10. Provide strategic advice and thought leadership, deploying required resources to address various program challenges and unanticipated events.
11. Ensure global consistency, stability, and data accuracy in the HRIS system.
12. Partner with HR and IT leaders to define HR's Technology strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business needs.
13. Manage appropriate security within the HRIS team through role assignment and ensure role assignments remain relevant.
14. Partner with functional HR leaders to prioritize business needs and implement a strong project management cadence in delivering solutions, including leading weekly prioritization meetings, measuring solution effectiveness, and managing customer expectations.

Abilities and Skills

• Ability to manage a global team of HRIS leaders while managing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Utilize project management concepts to ensure successful delivery.
• Strong problem-solving and project management skills to deliver strategic objectives.
• Possess rigorous goal-setting and continuous improvement discipline.

Requirements

1. 9 years of experience in a leadership position, 7 of which were spent leading a team.
2. 5 years of experience demonstrating a strong understanding of HR and payroll business processes, preferably with Workday experience.
3. Global HRIS implementation experience, preferably with Workday.
4. Experience building and delivering complex communication plans across diverse stakeholder groups.
5. Experience managing global initiatives and ability to navigate ambiguity/re-prioritize as requirements and direction change.
6. Experience building and managing case tool reports/SLAs to manage the effectiveness and efficiency of the HRIS team.
7. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and project management tools.
8. Proven track record of managing cross-functional partnerships, including business leadership up to C-suite, IT, Finance, Legal, and HR.
9. Exceptional people skills with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with both a technical audience and business users.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or an additional 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.