Workday Project Manager

Description

Summary Baxter Healthcare is seeking a senior level professional who understands both Technical and Business to act as a Project Manager to Baxters Workday Recruiting implementation project. This candidate must be familiar with implementing Workday cloud solutions in a highly matrixed environment. This position requires an individual who has significant experience in partnering with 3rd party System Implementers (SIs), IT teams and business functions to understand business requirements and deploying solutions that bring rapid value to the customer community.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities Baxter has implemented Workday Core, Payroll for US/PR, Advanced Compensation and Talent/Performance functionality globally across 60+ countries and 8 languages. The WD Recruiting project manager must be an experienced Workday project manager that has implemented Workday Recruiting as a phase 2 for a large global company.
This role will be responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of Workday Recruiting by Partnering with the selected system implementer project manager/team to plan the project
Ensure adherence of Baxters Workday guided principles throughout the project
Creation of Scope, Key Deliverables, Key Milestones, Work Schedule, and Resource plan.
Facilitating crosswork stream collaboration to identify interdependencies, project requirements and risks, while maintaining open lines of communication throughout the project.
Providing direction and support to project team members across work streams.
Presenting project progress, issues, risks, mitigation strategies to project team and leadership
Management of project financials
Key Competencies for this position Project Management
Planning and organizing
Decision making
Communication
Influencing and leading
Conflict management
Teamwork
Adaptability
Ability to grasp new concepts quickly and ability to partner with business, supplier, and technical teams
Provides appropriate rationale and context to drive commitment
Conveys relevant information in a candid and timely manner
Interacts regularly with customers to understand their business objectives and to anticipate the necessary IT resources for the project
Effective meeting facilitation
Achieves high level of customer satisfaction
Establishes collaborative working relationships with the business, IT, and 3rd party SI and ensure alliance to project strategy
Ability to connect functional teams with technical teams to achieve goals.
Ability to work and succeed without geographical, functional, or team boundaries.
Qualifications Candidate must possess the following knowledge Technical
Working knowledge of Implementing Workday Recruiting as a phase 2
Workday tenant management
Workday conversion methodology
Workday Integrations/APIs
Workday testing
Workday deployment requirements
Workday translations
Understanding of Workday Business Processes and Business Applications for HCM Core and Recruiting
Business
Working knowledge of Global Recruiting
Working knowledge of Change Management
Working with Workdays Delivery Assurance team
Education and/or Experience
Excellent verbal and written skills
3+ years experience project manager for Workday Recruiting implementations
3+ years experience in leading crossfunctional, global teams.
4+ years experience in supporting Human Resources Recruiting or Recruiting projects/programs
Desirable PMP Certification
Knowledge of Taleo to Workday conversion projects
Past experience with global healthcare/manufacturing companies