Contract Workday Implementation Program Manager - Healthcare

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• Drive Workday application roadmap at an enterprise level in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to achieve the product vision and strategically aligned prioritization.
  
• Builds close relationships with the functional teams to understand requirements to innovate, grow, improve efficiencies, address compliance requirements, complete change request and enhancement projects.
  
• Apply agile methodologies to manage and evaluate the Workday backlog, of change requests, enhancements and drive prioritization of items and release cycles.
  
• Plan and drive Workday’s semi-annual system releases and new module implementations, ensuring minimal disruption to daily operations.
  
• Build and advocate for organizational processes and culture to achieve team and business objectives.
  
• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of Workday System Administrators; drive alignment of prioritized responsibilities, manage capacity, skills development and team member retention.
  
• Establish a culture of continuous improvement and implement feedback loops with all stakeholders.
  
• Partner with department leads to develop business cases inclusive of project budgets, evaluating risk levels, legacy system impacts, stability, organizational policies and reliability.
  
• Drive the execution of new Workday integrations and coordinates with functional leaders, system administrators, and vendors.
  
• Apply creative solutions to design workflows and procedures with strong attention to detail.
  
• Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.
  
• Establish strong working relationships with Executive Sponsors, department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.
  
• Exhibits leadership by confidence in self and others, inspires and motivates others to perform well, effectively influences actions and opinions of others.
  
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  

• Requires professional level knowledge of Workday system configuring, product design, and supporting software applications.
  

• Completion of a Baccalaureate degree & minimum of eight years’ experience in a leadership role in information systems (Master’s degree is a plus)
  
• OR Associate's degree in relevant field of study and minimum of ten years’ experience in leadership role in information management
  

• ACP Agile, Product Management or PMP preferred
  
• Workday functional certifications (HCM, Financial)
  

• 8+ years of experience supporting Workday.
  
• Experience utilizing integrations, leading system customizations, migrating data, and testing.
  
• Prior working history as a Workday Product Owner, Senior Systems Administrator or similar leadership role.
  

• Strong leadership with direct reports and indirect stakeholder teams
  
• Excellent program management skills to drive deadlines, budget and prioritization
  
• Strong understanding of the principles of product management
  
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence diverse stakeholder groups and communicate technical concepts to non-technical individuals