Sr Engagement (Project/ Delivery) Manager - Higher Education Job at Workday
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About the Team
Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses. Our solutions combine the lower cost of ownership of SaaS with a modern approach to applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday delivers Human Capital Management, Payroll, Financial Management and Student solutions for midsize and large organizations.
As an Engagement Manager in our Higher Education practice, you will be the key player on a team that guides customers through the deployment lifecycle, solution delivery, and issue management by partnering with Workday Delivery leadership, consultants, and resource management. You will be the Workday leader responsible for managing the Customer experience through deployments. You will be tasked with managing a portfolio of project engagements, including external customer facing engagements (initial and subsequent add-on deployments) as well as internal Workday engagements.
About the Role
As an Engagement Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of the Workday products for our Higher Education customer base. The Engagement Manager, through building key relationships with the client executive leadership and implementation team(s), will drive the implementation from planning through multiple moves to production. In addition, the Engagement Manager will be involved in the development of several key project deliverables (e.g., charter, project/staffing plan, issue logs, project status reporting, etc.) and work with the Client project manager to resolve issues that stand in the way of project success. The Engagement Manager will also be responsible for managing to the agreed upon budget and delivering the project profitably.
Basic Qualifications:
- Demonstrable experience (5+ years) of project managing Medium and/or Large Enterprise ERP or Student SIS implementations, preferably within the Higher Education and/or Non-Profit customer base.
- Prior consulting experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software company.
- Experience implementing Workday, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Ellucian or a similar application.
- Working knowledge with at least one of the following: HCM, Financials, SIS (Student Information System) business areas: Student Financials, Financial Aid, Records/Registration, Admissions or similar business experience.
Other Qualifications:
- Previous experience with project management tools (Microsoft Project, Smartsheets, etc).
- Experience in project management incorporating financial business processes and financial reporting
- Experience managing 3rd parties on a project
- Business development experience
- Previous service sales experience is a plus. Successful candidates have a balance of functional (business) and technical experience
- Ability to travel 50-60 percent or more of the time (post COVID)
About You
What you’ll be doing:
- Project manage one or more Workday product implementations concurrently
- Participate in the sales cycle when requested to gather requirements, formulate delivery approach and develop a proposal/SOW
- Provide guidance and mentoring to Professional Services resources working on your implementations
- Ensure projects are properly planned and staffed
- Manage and measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks
- Work with the client project manager to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframes
- Work with Delivery Assurance to ensure compliance with agreed to checkpoints
- Present at Executive Steering Committee meetings
- Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday best practices
- Be a liaison for Professional Services when interacting with sales and/or development
- Identify 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 client with change orders in the event they're asking Workday to perform tasks that are outside the scope of the SOW
Expected results within 12 months:
- Become a specialist in Workday's Implementation Methodology as well as the Student Deployment Approach for use on all engagements
- Demonstrate competency in the Workday Student product suite
- Full project P+L ownership
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