Change Management Consultant, EMEA (German and English speaking)

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Munich, Bayern
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • HR Tech
The Role
As a Senior Change Management Consultant at Workday, you will lead customer engagements and oversee key change management activities including stakeholder identification, communications planning, and training. You'll develop training materials for Workday adoption and assist in the innovation of change management practices while supporting internal initiatives.
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Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

The Workday Change Management team is passionate about helping our customers prepare their users to successfully adopt Workday. In short, change management is the “people side” of our deployments.

About the Role

Our team promotes Workday’s core values with ‘Employees’ being the first of them! This is why we:

  • offer flexible work schedules aligned to our "Flex" model;

  • empower you to follow your desired career path & achieve professional and personal goals

  • encourage work-life balance and wellbeing

  • are proud to champion equal opportunities for everyone.

We’re a diverse, fun group of people, with an invaluable mix of experience and backgrounds, located across multiple locations within the region.


The Senior Change Management Consultant serves as a work stream lead on customer engagements and contributes internally to practice development.

Key customer activities will include:

  • Serving as the primary point of contact for the work stream and being a great partner to your direct customer counterpart, as well as project leadership and executives within the customer organization

  • Owning and leading change-related activities including, but not limited to, stakeholder identification, change impact analysis, communications planning, training planning, readiness assessment, and adoption measurement

  • Hands-on development of communications and training materials that support a successful transition to Workday for key end-users

  • Maintaining the change management project plan tasks and providing mentorship to the customer on how these activities are impacted by functional achievements within the Workday methodology

Internal contributions will include:

  • Supporting ongoing innovation of the service offering and change management practice through contribution to team Objectives and Key Results (OKRS)

  • Participate in business development activities including estimating, drafting RFP responses, presenting our service to prospective customer leadership, and drafting SOW language

  • Lend expertise to ad-hoc internal initiatives where change management insight is required

About You

Basic Qualifications

  • Languages: German and English

  • 5 years experience in Change Management on large transformation programmes

  • 5 years Consulting experience, either as an Internal Consultant or with a Consulting/Software Company

  • 5 years experience implementing or supporting HCM ERP products

Other Qualifications

  • Ability to guide customer in strategic conversations and provide tactical, day-to-day support

  • Thrive delivering a thoughtful, consultative approach to change management that results in outstanding experiences for our customers

  • Experienced in leading others through changes to the way they work and how they interact with enterprise technology (strong preference for Workday-related experience)

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills in a customer-facing environment

  • Existing Workday Certification or ability to achieve certification with first 90 days of employment would be beneifical but not essential

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!

The Company
HQ: Pleasanton, CA
14,894 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance, HR, and planning. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.

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