Senior Project Manager

About the Role The Senior Project Manager will simultaneously handle several projects including Enablement and Workday Success Plan offerings, coordinating the delivery of packaged services to customers of all sizes and industries around the world. Senior Project Managers drive the execution of projects, ensuring success, efficiency and quality via project management practices (e.g., develop project staffing plan, coordinate system access, conducting meetings, etc.) and by handling the customer relationship. Within these projects, Project Managers serve as an advocate for Workday, our employees and our customers in equal measure, to complete projects under budget and on time per the definition of each service.Responsibilities include:Leading projects to deliver Workday Success Plans programs and services.Clearly and successfully presenting project objectives and delivery strategies.Becoming a specialist in Workday's implementation methodology and using it on engagements.Balancing the needs of a large number of concurrent projects.Providing guidance and mentoring to Professional Service resources working on your projects.Ensuring projects are accurately planned and staffed.Working with the client project manager to identify and resolve issues that could impact project scope or timeframe.Leading customer meetings and Workday internal operational meetings.Finding opportunities to position other service offerings.Ensuring customers can serve as a reference upon completion of their project.Communicating and drafting change orders if Workday agrees to perform tasks outside of the scope of the SOW.Completing project administration tasks such as updating project forecasts, assisting with team scheduling, and other internal project initiation tasks.About YouBasic Qualifications:Fluency in the English language (written and spoken)5+ years of project management experience with HCM, Payroll, Financial or Student implementations within medium enterprise, large enterprise, higher education and/or state and local governments.5+ years of experience implementing Workday, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or similar applications.Other Qualifications:Passion for customer serviceExcellent organization, time management, verbal and written communication skillsSolid understanding of at least one of the following business areas: Human Resources, Benefits, Payroll, General Ledger, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Services procurementCapable of influencing, interacting and collaborating with senior executives, internally and externallyAbility to work on multiple engagements simultaneouslyAbility to travel up to 10%