Senior Engagement Manager - Deployment Success Management Japan

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About the Team

The Workday Success Plans Team are all about our customers and their entire journey with Workday - we create programs to help them drive business value from their Workday applications. The team is responsible for delivering a variety of programs and services to our customers ranging from feature demonstrations to guidance during their deployments.At Workday, we help the world’s largest organisations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too! We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

About the Role

Workday is looking for a Senior /Principal Engagement Manager, with Strong HCM or Financials expertise to join our growing Deployment Success Management team, part of the larger Workday Success Plan (WSP) organisation.

In this role, you are considered an expert with the Workday Deployment Methodology, leading/managing mid to large deployments and resolving complex issues in creative and effective ways.
 

Responsibilities:

• Leading projects to deliver Workday Success Plans programs and services.

• Clearly and successfully communicating project objectives and delivery strategies.

• Becoming a specialist in Workday Success Plans offering and educating customers throughout the project.

• Balancing the needs of a large number of concurrent projects.

• Providing guidance and mentoring to consultants working on your projects.

• Ensuring projects are accurately planned and staffed.

• Working with the client project manager to identify and resolve issues that could impact project scope or timeframe.

• Leading customer meetings and Workday internal operational meetings.

• Ensuring customers can serve as a reference upon completion of their project.

• Completing project administration tasks such as updating project forecasts, assisting with team scheduling, and other internal project initiation and closure tasks.

About You

Senior Level

Basic Qualifications

- Effective bi-lingual in Japanese and English communication skills
- 5+ years of experience of project management with HCM, Payroll, Financial
within medium enterprise, large enterprise, and/or state and local governments.
- 5+ years of experience implementing Workday, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or
similar applications.

Principal Level

Basic Qualifications

- Effective bi-lingual in Japanese and English communication skills
- 8+ years of experience of project management with HCM, Payroll, Financial
within medium enterprise, large enterprise, and/or state and local governments.
- 8+ years of experience implementing Workday, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or
similar applications.

Other Qualifications

• Passion for customer service

• Excellent organization, time management, verbal and written communication skills

• Solid understanding of at least one of the following business areas: Human Resources, Benefits, Payroll, General Ledger, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Services Procurement

• Capable of influencing, interacting and collaborating with senior executives, internally and externally

• Ability to work on multiple engagements simultaneously

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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