PMO Manager - Workday & Enterprise Applications

Scope:

• Own and drive the Workday enhancement portfolio, covering demand intake, prioritization, roadmap planning, delivery, releases, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes.
• Lead PMO governance and executive reporting, providing leadership visibility into program health, milestones, risks, financials, and key decisions.
• Coordinate across HR, IT, Finance, business teams, technology partners, and senior leadership to ensure alignment, timely execution, and successful adoption of Workday initiatives.Key Responsibilities

What Youll Do:

Workday Enhancement Program Management

• Own the PMO governance for the Workday enhancement portfolio, including demand intake, prioritization, planning, delivery tracking, and closure.
• Partner with HR, IT, Workday product teams, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into actionable enhancement initiatives.
• Manage enhancement roadmaps, release planning, dependencies, risks, issues, and key milestones.
• Establish and maintain standardized processes for Workday change requests, prioritization, approvals, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
• Coordinate with Workday implementation/support partners and internal technology teams to ensure timely delivery.
• Track benefits, outcomes, and business value delivered through Workday enhancements.

Executive Stakeholder ELT Engagement

• Work closely with ELTs and senior leadership to provide clear visibility into portfolio health, strategic initiatives, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.
• Prepare executive-level presentations, dashboards, status reports, and decision papers.
• Facilitate leadership governance forums, steering committee meetings, and program reviews.
• Proactively identify issues that require executive intervention and drive them to resolution.
• Communicate complex technology and business topics in a concise, outcome-oriented manner.

PMO Governance

• Establish strong program governance, operating rhythms, and reporting mechanisms across Workday and related enterprise initiatives.
• Maintain portfolio-level RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs, milestone plans, and financial tracking.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards and KPIs covering delivery, budget, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes.
• Ensure adherence to organizational PMO standards, controls, and delivery methodologies.
• Drive continuous improvement of PMO processes, tools, templates, and reporting.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Act as a central coordination point between HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Security, Business Operations, and Technology teams.
• Manage dependencies across Workday and other enterprise applications.
• Partner with product owners, architects, engineering teams, vendors, and functional leads to ensure alignment and timely execution.
• Support organizational change management and stakeholder adoption for major Workday enhancements.

What We Are Looking For:

• 9-14 years of experience in PMO, Program Management, Technology Transformation, or Enterprise Applications.
• Proven experience managing Workday enhancement programs or Workday-related initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Workday modules such as HCM, Compensation, Talent, Recruiting, Absence, Payroll, or Finance is preferred.
• Experience working in a global, matrixed organization with geographically distributed teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with C-suite / ELT / VP-level stakeholders.
• Strong experience in executive reporting, governance, portfolio management, and strategic planning.
• Excellent understanding of RAID management, dependency management, risk management, financial tracking, and change control.
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously in a high-growth and changing environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Experience with PMO tools such as Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Power BI, or similar platforms.
• Experience in HR Technology / HRIS transformation.
• Experience working with global consulting partners and technology vendors.
• Exposure to enterprise architecture, and technology governance.
• Experience within a SaaS, enterprise software, supply-chain technology, or similarly complex technology organization.

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