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Workday PMO Executive in Remote, Michigan
The Program Management Office Executive will work closely with Workday delivery to drive a successful deployment and high customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- Leverage broad-based industry knowledge and deployment expertise to ensure customer success.
- Establish and execute against a clearly defined governance model and program management framework, including processes for project planning (including dependent project dependencies), status reporting, decision-making frameworks, change requests and risks/issues logs into a program-wide view.
- Partner with workstream project leads to ensure adherence to program standards and governance.
- Enable the customer to manage the overall program by:
- Facilitating the steering committee and other cross-program governance activities.
- Monitoring steering committee engagement and governance effectiveness.
- Producing executive communication, dashboards, scorecards and/or reports. This will require coordination across multiple functions/vendors to gather, analyze, and synthesize information for executive audiences.
- Driving executive decision making.
- Ensuring adherence to change control and other governance processes.
Identifying dependent projects, their dependencies, and associated risks with the Workday project. This includes working with dependent initiative project managers, and Workday project workstream leads to address conflicts.
About You
The top qualified candidate is very customer focused that can build instant rapport with the customer and loves to work with others to address project challenges. Their motto would be "there isn't a mountain high enough to summit or a valley we couldn't cross or bridge when we work together."
Basic Qualifications
- 15 + years of project and program management of large, complex technology deployments with direct interaction with senior executives. (Highly preferred 2+ years in role with a top tier multi-national company)
- Experience working within a Consulting firm/practice as a Program Manager, Sr. Project Manager, Management Consultant, etc.
Experience in a project management role for a Human Capital management or Financial system implementation.
Other Qualifications
- Tenacity in driving the customer, vendors, and partners to meet or exceed program objectives.
- Innovative problem solver. Ability to quickly identify and understand issues and drive towards effective resolution.
- Advanced communication skills - both written and oral. Ability to simplify complex concepts and messages to essential components and deliver effective messages to a wide range of audiences.
- Proactive, resourceful, and detail oriented. Ability to identify, understand and track details and inter-dependencies between many projects regardless of project ownership.
- Strong emotional intelligence. Ability to work effectively across teams, overcome resistance and navigate a complex organization.
- Mastery of project management skills and processes.
- Experience with both operational and program budgets.
- Good history and track record of working with vendors.
- Understanding of Project Management Institute, Agile and Six Sigma methodologies. PMP certification is a plus.
- Ability to travel at least 50%
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well a