What are the responsibilities and job description for the Freelance Workday HCM Project Manager position at WPP?
About WPP IT
WPP IT offers information technology services for WPP, the world's largest provider of communication services. WPP is a creative transformation company that helps its clients to transform the future through exceptional work. WPP IT plays a crucial role in this journey, and we take pride in providing technology solutions to some of the most innovative and creative brands worldwide.
Role Purpose
WPP is a company that places technology at the forefront of its operations. At WPP IT, we are dedicated to enabling collaboration, creativity, and success for everyone. We are transforming significantly to create a platform that will power WPP's next evolution. Our current focus is to simplify and clarify the operating model between WPP and our brands, modernise and create technology-enabled colleague experiences, and establish an open, integrated technology innovation platform throughout WPP.
As part of this process, we have identified the need for a crucial new role, the Workday HCM Project Manager. This person will lead Workday HCM delivery in North America for our agencies. The Workday HCM Project Manager will ensure that the HR Technology Transformation is aligned with WPP IT's vision, professionalise how we deliver projects as a service, provide a value-focused approach, and maintain cost control through tools fit for purpose.
Key Responsibilities
The job involves defining and maintaining technical project plans, combining various workstreams, and assessing functional dependencies.
You will oversee the end-to-end rollout of Workday HCM solutions, including plan and deliverable tracking, workstream alignment, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and reporting.
You will lead workstream alignment as a conduit between the Functional, Integrations, Testing, Data, and Cutover workstreams.
You will also devise a plan to transition the HCM solution from programme mode to BAU, collaborating with the service team, other project managers and the BAU product owner.
Your job will also involve leading discussions with 3rd party vendors on solutions, scope, plan tracking and budget management. This also includes building and maintaining tenant management plans for deployment purposes.
You will lead workstream alignment in Functional, Integrations, Data, Test, Cutover, and Hypercare. You will possess exceptional facilitation, conflict resolution, and prioritisation skills and lead global workshops as part of HCM deployment.
You will collaborate with a diverse, multidisciplinary global team to deliver the HCM solution based on business needs and outcomes, managing cross-dependency between Functional, Technical, Data Migration, Testing, Cutover, and Transition to BAU workflow.
You will be the single point of contact for any plan tracking, deployment progress, issues and associated risks to complete on-time delivery.
You will work with Risk and controls, DPO approvals, and Programme assurance to ensure project governance deliverables meet WPP IT audit standards and best practices.
Skills and Experience
The ideal candidate should have previous experience leading the rollout of Workday HCM projects in a complex global organisation, such as Technical Project Manager, Project Manager, Deployment Manager, or Engagement Manager.
They should have end-to-end Workday HCM project delivery experience in a large-scale organisation, starting from project kick-off until transitioning to BAU and hypercare. Additionally, they should have previous experience in delivering Workday HCM solutions as part of a wider HR Transformation program.
The candidate should possess exceptional stakeholder engagement skills and have an appreciation for and experience working with stakeholders across multiple business units and levels of seniority.
They should be quick to learn and adaptable to changing priorities, with the ability to reshape, reconfigure, and realign plans and delivery approaches to meet challenging deadlines without jeopardising the overall delivery.
Moreover, the candidate should be a self-starter with impeccable organisational and time-management skills, a focus on value and outcomes, and an enthusiastic and can-do attitude.
They should have strong communication and stakeholder management skills, turn complex technical messages into effective, succinct communications, and influence stakeholders with competing priorities.
Lastly, the candidate should have experience and knowledge of project management tools and dashboards such as MS Project, Smart Sheets, Jira, Risk Register, and Office 365 Collaboration tools.
To be Successful
- 3 – 4 Workday HCM Deployment experience as a Project Manager or Engagement Manager
- Previously Certified in Workday HCM / Project Manager
- Workday Functional knowledge will be beneficial.
- Previously deployed Workday HCM in the North America Region
- Team lead, Team player skills to manage a project as part of the Global Programme.
Skills Keywords
Workday HCM Functional Architect, Workday Functional lead, HCM Technical Project Manager, Workday PMO, Workday Delivery Lead, Workday Engagement Manager
You’re open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You’re optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology, and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients, and our communities. We approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You’re extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we deliver extraordinary every day.
Available in the East Coast time zone to collaborate with a wider Programme team based in London.
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