Workday Project Manager (Data)
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people in 112 countries. Our company creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology. WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world’s biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC and the UN. Our clients include 69 of the FTSE 100, 348 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 70 of the NASDAQ 100.
WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide. The company is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world’s largest creative transformation company. WPP is reinventing creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology for clients.
WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data
WPP have selected Workday as their innovative HCM, Finance & PSA (Professional Services Automation) system of choice to meet changing demands and roles will be instrumental in rolling out and servicing one of the most exciting Workday programmes for a global business right now.
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Why we're hiring:
At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences, and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data and breadth of expertise. WPP are underway with a significant programme of technology-enabled change across our Finance, Professional Services and People function and this role will be instrumental in ensuring that our programme is understood, welcomed, and enthusiastically adopted through the business as we progress. Workday @Scale is a large-scale programme that will replace some of our core technology and also influence the ways of working for many of our colleagues at WPP. This flagship programme will see Workday deployed across our global landscape to address the technology needs of Finance, Projects and our People function – so essentially it touches all of our employees to some degree. The key to this programme is that data is an enabler for our transformation and is the backbone of our technology deployment. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the build and management of the Workday Data Management Platform. This platform will serve as the hub of conversion and migration of data from over 300 legacy ERPs to Workday. You will use your understanding of concepts of data management and data architecture to manage the development of a world class data platform. In your role, you are expected to collaborate with a multiple teams including the Workday programme leadership, the Workday data team, enterprise architecture, and vendor partners. |
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What you'll be doing:
• Develop a detailed project management and release plan for the data platform, with deliverables and milestones. Identify the critical path and activities of the project. • Identify and document risks associated with the program and devise mitigation strategies to manage these risks. • Manage communication and status reporting with programme leadership and stakeholders. • Collaborate and collaborate with cross disciplinary teams including data architects and product owners to manage schedules, deadlines and deliverables. • Maintain and manage requirements traceability to ensure that functional and non-functional requirements are developed and tested. • Work with product owners to prioritize features and finalize release plans, • Work with Workday implementation teams to identify and provision data for testing. |
Who you'll be working with:
Reporting Line : Workday @Scale Data Lead
What you'll need:
- Experience in leading data management or data platform initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of data management and data architecture principles and concepts.
- Background in large data conversion projects, with multiple data sources from varying data models utilizing SAP/Oracle/Workday/similar as target
- Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills – to present data concepts in a meaningful way
- Experience in managing remote
- Confidence in challenging situations, able to inform senior management and work under pressure
- Dogged, determined and attention to detail essential
Who you are:
You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of 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 conviction: 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 provide extraordinary every day.
What we'll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
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