Associate Project Manager Lead

Dexian; Valleyview (OH); Remote; USD 73,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexian is seeking a contractor to support Talent Management initiatives as a Workday workstream lead. The role is 100% remote, based in the United States, with a focus on delivering on time and maintaining stakeholder alignment across programs.

You will manage project plans, schedules, status reports, metrics, and resource tracking, while ensuring readiness, testing, and go-live activities. Strong communication and governance experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with Workday implementations, especially HCM and Talent Management.
• Proficient with MS Project and MS Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Agile project delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and manage project management deliverables and artifacts (plans, schedules, status reports, metrics, resource tracking).
• Oversee workstream delivery from planning through execution and ensure timelines are met.
• Facilitate status tracking and reporting for the workstream and roll updates into program-level reporting.

Skills

Workday HCM

Talent Management

Agile project delivery

MS Project

MS Office

Tools

Workday

Job description

Location: 100% Remote

Pay Rate: $53.00 - $56.00 hourly on W2

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Schedule

• Days: Mon-Fri
• Hours: 8-5PM EST (regardless of time zone the candidate lives)
• NO OT

Day to day responsibilities

This contractor will support Talent Management initiatives, managing one or more workstreams depending on business needs. This role requires a highly organized, detail-oriented professional who can operate effectively in a fast-paced environment and seamlessly transition between functional areas. The successful candidate will be able to quickly come up to speed, establish key stakeholder relationships, and drive project execution.

• Create, maintain, and manage project management deliverables and artifacts, including:
  • project plans
  • schedules
  • status reports
  • project metrics
  • resource tracking
• Oversee workstream delivery from planning through execution.
• Ensure all activities and deliverables are progressing according to the approved timeline.
• Facilitate status tracking and reporting for the workstream and roll updates into program-level reporting.
• Proactively identify and resolve issues impacting delivery.
• Escalate risks and issues coming from the workstream as needed.
• Support readiness, testing, and go-live planning activities.
• Present status updates during team forums and larger program meetings, including broad audience calls.

What's the impact this role has on the business?

Serves as the business lead for a Workday workstream, ensuring successful delivery, stakeholder alignment, organizational readiness, and adoption while providing leadership visibility into progress, risks, decisions, and overall workstream health.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification preferred
• PMI-based project delivery training/certification is a plus

Top Must Have Skills

• Experience with Workday implementations, especially in:
  • HCM
  • Talent Management
• MS Project: Intermediate to Advanced proficiency required.
• Strong MS Office skills, particularly:
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • Word
• Experience with Agile project delivery required.

Soft Skills Required for success

• Experience managing large, complex projects and/or transformational programs.
• Proven ability to manage integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Strong risk, issue, action, and decision management experience.
• Experience with governance, executive reporting, and stakeholder communications.
• Ability to proactively identify delivery risks and drive mitigation actions.

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.