Workday HCM Consultant

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Hyderabad, Telangana, IND
In-Office
Expert/Leader
eCommerce • Logistics
The Role
Owns the Workday enhancement portfolio, including demand intake, prioritization, roadmaps, releases, risks, dependencies, governance, financial tracking, and business outcomes. Leads executive reporting, steering committees, PMO operating rhythms, dashboards, and decision forums. Coordinates HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Security, vendors, and business teams to deliver enterprise application initiatives, manage change, and drive adoption.
Summary Generated by Built In

Scope:


  • Core responsibilities include managing day-to-day support tickets and delivering enhancement requests, with a primary focus on Workday Security, Succession Planning, Talent & Performance, and Reporting.
  • As part of the ASIS team, this position will help advance the Workday HCM solution by troubleshooting production issues, applying best practices, and delivering secure, compliant, and scalable enhancements across Workday functional domains.
  • The role includes configuring new security groups and security policies, supporting succession and talent processes, and developing reports and calculated fields to meet business and operational needs.
  • We are looking mainly for an individual contributor who can deal the end-to-end enhancements and implementations.
  • Who can quickly understand the process and kick start the work and deal with production issues.


What You'll Do:


  • Own day-to-day Workday HCM operations, with emphasis on Security, Succession Planning, Talent & Performance, and Reporting, including incidents, service requests, and minor-to-major enhancements. Along with Absence and Time Tracking experience will be an added advantage.
  • Analyse and troubleshoot production issues involving security access, business process steps, talent processes, succession events, performance reviews, goals, and reporting; perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
  • Configure and maintain Workday Security, including security groups, domain security policies, business process security policies, role assignments, user-based security, and role-based access controls, following least-privilege principles.
  • Configure and support Succession Planning, including succession pools, succession plans, talent cards, candidate readiness, critical positions, and related security and reporting.
  • Configure and support Talent & Performance processes, including goals, performance reviews, calibration, feedback, talent reviews, competencies, and development plans.
  • Develop and maintain Workday reports and data outputs, including custom reports, advanced reports, matrix reports, composite reports, dashboards, discovery boards, calculated fields, and Report-as-a-Service (RaaS).
  • Ensure secure access to sensitive talent, succession, and performance data; support periodic access reviews, segregation-of-duties assessments, and audit requests.
  • Partner with product, platform, engineering, HR, and business teams throughout the delivery lifecycle, including requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, documentation, and hyper-care.
  • Support data validation, report reconciliation, downstream consumption, and integration troubleshooting as needed.
  • Align with Blue Yonder core values: Empathy, Results, Relentless, and Teamwork

What We Are Looking For:


  • 6–8 years of experience in Workday as a consultant or a developer but not as a tester.
  • Proven experience managing Workday enhancement programs or Workday-related initiatives being an individual contributor.
  • Strong Workday Security experience, including security groups, domain security, business process security policies, user-based security, role assignments, and role-based access control.
  • Strong experience with Workday Succession Planning, including succession pools and plans, candidate readiness, critical roles, talent cards, and succession-related reporting.
  • Strong Workday Talent & Performance experience, including goal management, performance reviews, calibration, feedback, competencies, talent reviews, and development planning.
  • Proven Workday reporting skills, including custom and advanced reports, matrix and composite reports, calculated fields, dashboards, discovery boards, and RaaS. BIRT experience is a plus.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot production issues, manage day-to-day support tickets, and deliver enhancements with minimal supervision.
  • Working knowledge of at least one additional Workday functional area, such as Recruiting, Learning, Benefits, or Time and Absence, is preferred.
  • Strong stakeholder management, analytical, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into secure and scalable Workday solutions.

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Skills Required

  • 9-14 years of experience in PMO, program management, technology transformation, or enterprise applications
  • Experience managing Workday enhancement programs or Workday-related initiatives
  • Experience working in a global, matrixed organization with geographically distributed teams
  • Experience working directly with C-suite, ELT, or VP-level stakeholders
  • Experience in executive reporting, governance, portfolio management, and strategic planning
  • Understanding of RAID management, dependency management, risk management, financial tracking, and change control
  • Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, influencing, analytical, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to manage multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously in a high-growth and changing environment
  • Experience with PMO tools such as Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Power BI, or similar platforms
  • Experience in HR Technology or 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
  • Understanding of Workday modules such as HCM, Compensation, Talent, Recruiting, Absence, Payroll, or Finance

Blue Yonder Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Blue Yonder and has not been reviewed or approved by Blue Yonder.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is described as generous or “unlimited” in the U.S., alongside paid holidays, sick time, and two paid volunteer days. These policies are often highlighted as strengths that support work–life balance.
  • Flexible Benefits — Remote-work options and flexible arrangements are emphasized as part of the package. This flexibility is valued alongside compensation and can help offset middling pay for some roles.
  • Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are provided, with mental health/EAP support and HSA/FSA options referenced. These core coverages are portrayed as solid and comprehensive.

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The Company
HQ: Scottsdale, AZ
5,001 Employees
Year Founded: 1985

What We Do

Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment. Our intelligent, end-to-end platform enables retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers to seamlessly predict, pivot and fulfill customer demand. With Blue Yonder, you can make more automated, profitable business decisions that deliver greater growth and re-imagined customer experiences. Blue Yonder - Fulfill your Potential Blue Yonder’s tagline “Fulfill Your Potential” reflects the company’s mission to empower every organization and person on the planet to fulfill their potential. Each day, our global teams of associates and business partners work together to accelerate global economic growth, increase sustainability and prosperity with a Sonoran Spirit.

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