Sr. Workday Implementation Manager

W2 OR 1099 ONLY. NO THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES.

9 month contract. Potential to extend.

Client: State government agency.

Overview:

Under limited supervision, analyzes customer business needs and participates in the planning, design, and implementation of systems. Serves as subject matter expert, providing authoritative guidance for professional staff. This individual will have a proven track record of implementing cloud SaaS ERP projects for large, complex initiatives. Manage a large, cross-functional project team and provide an organizational view of project/program dependencies, stakeholder, and risk impacts. Utilize effective communication skills, organizational awareness, and ability to manage critical dependencies and impacts. Local candidates strongly preferred.

Role:

• Lead and manage NextGen Workday cutover planning and execution activities.
• Collaborate with program teams, technical teams, and implementer resources to build out a detailed project cutover schedule to include tasks for all areas (technical (reports, integration, security) and functional (HCM, Payroll, Finance and Procurement) and OCM (Communications, Change Management, Training).
• 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 assure cutover and system remediation processes, deliverables, and milestones are developed and completed.
• Provide comprehensive reporting of cutover activities, challenges and risks. In coordination wit project team develop risk mitigation approaches to ensure on time go live.
• Prepare and deliver metric reporting demonstrating 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.

Skills Required:

Technical Project Management experience

Operations Management

Change Management

Release Management

Project Management Tools

Qualifications:

• 5 years prior experience as a Workday implementation program manager (must have managed multiple Workday components).
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 8 years of Workday SaaS ERP experience.
• 10 years of prior project management experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• 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.
• Ability to communicate in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiences.
• 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 able to clearly guide and articulate needs successfully onboard and manage new organization.