Strategic Engagement Lead - Workday Deployments

Workday; Missouri; Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking an Engagement Manager to lead mid to large deployments using the Workday Deployment Methodology. You will guide engagements, manage multiple simultaneous projects, and mentor resources while ensuring adherence to scope and budget.

The role emphasizes expertise in Financials, HCM, and Payroll, with occasional sales-cycle involvement and executive-level visibility. Flexible work options and travel up to 50% are expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience of project management with HCM, Payroll, or Financial implementations within medium enterprise, large enterprise, higher education and/or state and local governments.
• 3+years of experience implementing Workday, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or similar applications.

Responsibilities

• Become a guide in Workday's Implementation Methodology and demonstrate it on all engagements.
• Lead the implementation of 3 - 5 simultaneous projects.
• Show strength in the Workday product suite – Financials, HCM, and/or Payroll.
• At times, participate in the sales cycle to gather requirements, formulate delivery approach, and develop a proposal/SOW.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to those Professional Service resources working on their implementations.
• Ensure projects are accurately planned, staffed and tight management of scope and budget/resource forecasting.
• Work with the internal customer project manager to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframes.
• Present at Executive Steering Committee meetings.
• Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday standard methodologies.
• Be a liaison for professional services when interacting with sales and/or development.
• Find opportunities to position other service offerings.
• Ensure the client can serve as a reference upon completing their implementation.
• Assist in the transition of the customer from professional services to product support.
• Ensure the project is delivered within the budget outlined in the SOW.
• Present clients with change orders in the event they're asking Workday to perform tasks that are outside the scope of the SOW.

Skills

Project management

Client interaction

Leadership

Communication

Travel up to 50%

Tools

Workday Deployment Methodology

Workday product suite

Job description

Workday is seeking an Engagement Manager to lead mid to large deployments using the Workday Deployment Methodology. You will guide engagements, manage multiple simultaneous projects, and mentor resources while ensuring adherence to scope and budget.

The role emphasizes expertise in Financials, HCM, and Payroll, with occasional sales-cycle involvement and executive-level visibility. Flexible work options and travel up to 50% are expected.