Workday Cutover Lead

Padmore Global Connections LLC; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Padmore Global Connections LLC seeks a Workday Cutover Lead to drive the planning and execution of cloud ERP cutover activities for large, complex deployments. You will coordinate across program, technical, and implementer teams to ensure tasks cover technical, functional, and organizational change aspects and align with go-live milestones.

The role requires a proven track record in Workday SaaS ERP projects, excellent communication, and strong stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Technical Project Management experience.
• Operations Management experience.
• Change Management experience.
• Release Management experience.
• Familiarity with project management tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the NextGen Workday cutover planning and execution activities.
• Collaborate with Program Teams, Technical teams, and implementer resources to build out a detailed project cutover schedule to include tasks for all areas (technical reports, integration, security) and functional (HCM, Payroll, Finance and Procurement) and OCM (Communications, Change Mgmt, Training).
• Field questions and escalations regarding cutover activities and work with the cutover team to close open items.
• Manage cutover tasks, risks, issues, and project timelines to assure progress towards cutover completion
• Work with the appropriate system owners, business and technical subject-matter-experts, and workstreams to assure cutover and system remediation processes, deliverables, and milestones are developed and completed.
• Provide comprehensive reporting of cutover activities, challenges and risks including risk mitigation approaches for on-time go-live
• Prepare and deliver metric reporting demonstrating progress against planned activities
• Escalate items that would impact go live date
• Lead and participate in the cutover planning, plan reviews, and execution activities.
• Prior experience as a Workday implementation program manager (must have managed multiple Workday components)
• 0 years of IT experience
• 5 years of Workday SaaS ERP experience
• 10 years of prior project management experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Prior experience with state or other public sector clients
• Excellent organizational skills and a leader in the change process
• Ability to collaborate and drive execution at all levels within a business area
• Ability to communicate in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiences
• Expertise in documentation, presentation tools, and project management tools
• Excellent skills in critical thinking and analysis
• Ability to establish strong working relationships across IT, business lines and external stakeholders
• Group facilitation skills, negotiation and ability to influence and drive decisions
• Possess understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture and able to clearly guide and articulate needs to successfully onboard and manage new organization

Skills

Technical Project Management

Operations Management

Change Management

Release Management

Project Management Tools

Job description

Interview Type: Either Web Cam or In Person

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Engagement Type: Contract

NOTE: Applications with resumes in PDF Format will be automatically rejected. Only Word format resumes will be considered.

Short Description:

Under limited supervision, analyzes customer business needs and participates in the planning, design, and implementation of systems. Serves as subject matter expert, providing authoritative guidance for professional staff. May also serve in a lead role.

Complete Description:

The Workday Cutover Lead will have a proven track record of implementing cloud SaaS ERP projects for large, complex initiatives. The Cutover Lead will lead a large, cross-functional project team and provide an organizational view of project/program dependencies, stakeholder, and risk impacts. The lead will have effective communication skills, organizational awareness, and ability to manage critical dependencies and impacts. Local candidates strongly preferred. Out of state candidates will be accepted for a 100% remote work schedule.

What You Need for this Position

• Technical Project Management experience
• Operations Management
• Change Management
• Release Management
• Project Management Tools

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the NextGen Workday cutover planning and execution activities.
• Collaborate with Program Teams, Technical teams, and implementer resources to build out a detailed project cutover schedule to include tasks for all areas (technical (reports, integration, security) and functional (HCM, Payroll, Finance and Procurement) and OCM ( Communications, Change Mgmt, Training).
• Field questions and escalations regarding cutover activities and work with the cutover team to close open items.
• Manage cutover tasks, risks, issues, and project timelines to assure progress towards cutover completion
• Work with the appropriate system owners, business and technical subject-matter-experts, and workstreams to assure cutover and system remediation processes, deliverables, and milestones are developed and completed.
• Provide comprehensive reporting of cutover activities, challenges and risks. In coordination wit project team develop risk mitigation approaches to ensure on time go live
• Prepare and deliver metric reporting demonstrating progress against planned activities
• Escalate items that would impact go live date
• Lead and participate in the cutover planning, cutover plan review, capture of cutover activity timeframes/durations, mock cutover, and cutover execution activities.
• Prior experience as a Workday implementation program manager (must have managed multiple Workday components)
• 0 years of IT experience
• 5 years of Workday SaaS ERP experience
• 10 years of prior project management experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Prior experience with state or other public sector clients
• Excellent organizational skills and a leader in the change process
• Ability to collaborate and drive execution at all levels within a business area
• Ability to communicate in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiences
• Expertise in documentation, presentation tools, and project management tools
• Excellent skills in critical thinking and analysis
• Ability to establish strong working relationships across IT, business lines and external stakeholders
• Group facilitation skills, negotiation and ability to influence and drive decisions
• Possess understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture and able to clearly guide and articulate needs to successfully onboard and manage new organization