Workday Project Manager - Remote

Summary: The Workday Project Manager will oversee the implementation of Workday solutions in a remote capacity for a 15-month contract, with potential for extension. This role requires extensive project management experience, particularly in Workday environments, and involves collaboration with various teams to ensure successful project cutover and execution. The position demands strong communication, organizational, and leadership skills to manage risks and deliverables effectively.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Program Teams, Technical teams, and implementer resources to build out a detailed project cutover schedule to include tasks for all areas.
• 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 with 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.

Key Skills:

• Agile environment experience.
• Prior experience as a Workday implementation program manager.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 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.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT