Workday Project Manager - HRIS & Delivery

Innoova; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Group benefits

Retirement plan

Health spend account

Certifications support

Vacation 4 weeks

Job summary

INNOOVA, a Montreal-based boutique consulting firm, seeks an experienced Workday Engagement Manager to own end-to-end delivery across client projects and drive governance in a fast-growing practice.

You will lead cross-functional teams, shape delivery approaches, and build reusable accelerators while coordinating with stakeholders in a matrix environment. French/English communication required, with occasional travel to client sites.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record leading HRIS/IT projects end-to-end in external consulting.
• Strong advisor and delivery leadership capabilities across multiple clients and cultures.
• Excellent communication with clients, consultants, and leadership in French and English when required.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workday implementation projects end to end from mobilization to hypercare.
• Drive client-facing project governance and executive reporting.
• Coordinate internal delivery teams across concurrent mandates in a matrix structure.
• Contribute to proposals, pre-sales activities and shaping delivery approaches.
• Develop reusable accelerators, templates and standards for delivery excellence.
• Act as internal ambassador for delivery and flag risks early.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Workday delivery

Bilingual French/English

Tools

Workday

Job description

INNOOVA is a Montreal-based boutique consulting firm founded in 2019 and the only certified Workday partner headquartered in Canada. We deliver end-to-end HRIS implementations and transformations across the public sector, healthcare, finance, technology, and education. Our team offers the rigour of a recognized firm without the weight of large corporate structures which means faster decisions, direct impact, and real ownership from day one.

Our delivery practice is growing fast. Today, every project passes through a single Project Manager, and the pipeline has outpaced that capacity. We are building the next generation of our PMO, and this hire is the cornerstone. You will own project delivery across our Workday implementations and contribute to standardizing how INNOOVA executes. This is not a coordination role. This is someone who leads, mediates, mobilizes, and transforms not just someone who tracks a plan. Less bureaucracy, more impact.

• Lead Workday implementation projects end to end from mobilization and stakeholder planning through testing coordination, go-live, and hypercare.
• Drive client-facing project governance: status meetings, steering committees, risk and issue management, escalation resolution, and executive reporting.
• Coordinate internal delivery teams across concurrent mandates, managing timelines, dependencies, and deliverable quality in a matrix structure.
• Contribute to proposals and pre-sales activities building project plans, presenting to prospective clients, and shaping delivery approaches.
• Build INNOOVA's delivery DNA: develop reusable accelerators, project templates, and standards that raise the bar for how we execute across all platforms.
• Serve as the internal ambassador for deliveryexcellence coaching, flagging risks early, and keeping both client and team aligned throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

The profile we are lookingfor60% advisor 40% expert

What matters most (60%) advisory& delivery leadership

• A natural mediator: you manage client expectations and internal team dynamics with equal skill, and you de-escalate without losing momentum.
• High emotional intelligence: you read the room, adapt your communication style, and earn trust quickly with clients, consultants, and leadership alike.
• Comfort with ambiguity: you thrive in fast-moving, unstructured environments where priorities shift, and you help create structure where there is none.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering HRIS or IT projects end to end in an external consulting context managing multiple clients, cultures, and stakeholder environments simultaneously.
• Strong communicator in French andEnglish appliedcase by case based on client needs.

What we also expect ( 40 %) project delivery fundamentals

• Solid command of project delivery lifecycle phases mobilization , planning, design, build, test, deploy, hypercare and the ability to keep a team moving through each one.
• Experience managing project plans, schedules, and risk logs across concurrent mandates; enough functional context to ask smart questions and hold delivery teams accountable.
• Comfort reading the technical landscape without needing to configure it you don't need to be an HRIS specialist, but you understand the environment your team operates in.
• Workday Engagement Managercertification anasset; may be supported by INNOOVA for the right candidate.

Our must-haves

• Have led HRIS , Finance or IT projects delivered end to end in an external client-facing consulting context .
• Legal authorization to work in Canada.
• Availability for occasional travel for client engagements.
• Genuine flexibility andadaptability thisis a high-growth environment where the pace is real.
• The successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in Canada (citizen, permanent resident, or valid work permit holder), to be confirmed during the background check.

What we offer

• Competitivecompensation discusseddirectly with our TA team.
• 4 weeks vacations
• Fully remote and occasional on-sitearrangements possible depending on mandates.
• Group benefits from day one; retirement plan after 3 months.
• Health spending account of $1,000
• Certifications and professional development supported by INNOOVA.
• Real impact, fast growth without the corporate overhead.

The process simple and fast

• Discovery call 20 to 30 minutes with our TA team.
• Hiring manager interview 45 minutes with our Workday practice leads (behavioural and situational discussion; no formal technical case).
• Final interview coffee chat with our Managing Director (cultural and strategic alignment).
• Offer + background verification .

INNOOVA is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of gender, background, or situation.If you don't check every box, we still want to hear from you your potential matters as much as experience.We use artificial intelligence tools to support and not replace human judgment in our selection process.

Our process is designed to be fair, bias-aware, and focused on skills and potential.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.