Workday Strategic Projects Lead

What you bring

1. Strong Workday functional expertise and at least 8 years hands-on Workday configuration / Project experience covering multiple functions is essential.
2. In depth knowledge of Workday’s HCM business processes, Security and Compensation features; a good understanding of Workday Extend and Strategic Workforce Planning
3. Completed at least 4 full lifecycle Workday HCM implementations
4. Driven, self-starter and team-player, requiring minimum oversight and mentorship. A real “can do” attitude with high levels of resilience and used to working successfully under pressure with superb communication skills
5. Ability to work well in a matrix-based and geographically dispersed organisation
6. Flexibility to adapt to changing project requirements and environments
7. Experience in designing and implementing change management plans

Your responsibilities

1. Responsible for planning, design, and execution of Workday projects to meet Siemens Energy’s transformation initiatives. Develop detailed project plans, including scope, schedule, budget, and resource requirements.
2. Orchestrates multiple projects simultaneously, assigning responsibilities, managing timelines, and resolve conflicts
3. As a strategic project leader, you are responsible for ensuring everyone is aligned, expectations are clear, and communication flows efficiently.
4. In collaboration with project managers, business analysts, testers, integration developers and third parties to deliver strategic change and transformation projects enabled by Workday. This includes rolling out new functionality as well as optimizing our existing processes
5. Work with internal and third-party teams, including Application Management Services (AMS) teams, to translate the Workday requirements, understanding and articulating business needs to drive successful implementations in Workday.
6. Lead Workday project requirements capturing workshops to facilitate meetings in the full lifecycle of a project including, Business Analysis, Functional Specification, System Configuration, Testing
7. Liaise with key internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to HR, Benefits, Compensation, AMS partners etc. to establish project management discipline and governance processes to support initiatives end to end from project planning through testing to delivery to ensure a successful end-user experience for all new deployments and on-going maintenance of Workday and integrations.