Change people’s lives and love what you do! Cochlear is the most recognized brand in hearing health care.
Workday & Adaptive Planning Specialist
About the role
Cochlear is helping people hear, and be heard, all over the world. Come be a part of our amazing mission and join the number one most trustworthy company in the healthcare industry as recognized by Newsweek in its 2024 rankings of the World's Most Trustworthy Companies!
As a member of the Cochlear Workday Technology Squad, the Workday & Adaptive Planning Specialist plays a critical role in supporting and enhancing Workday HCM and Workday Adaptive Planning to enable strategic, data-driven Workforce Planning across the organization. This role supports key business functions including:
- Workday Adaptive Planning: Workforce budgeting and forecasting, including model maintenance, dashboard/report development, access control, and integration support.
- Workday HCM: Headcount planning, organizational modelling, and workforce analytics.
- System Integrations: Design, support, and optimization of integrations between Workday and Adaptive Planning, as well as downstream connectivity to Finance and Financial Planning systems for seamless data flow and alignment across planning cycles.
Key Responsibilities
- Administering and optimizing the broader Adaptive Planning for Workforce Planning solution, including model management (maintaining planning models, dimension structures, and hierarchy updates), formula optimization (develop and troubleshoot complex calculated accounts, custom formulas, and linked sheets to support dynamic planning scenarios), sheet design and maintenance (configure and manage standard sheets, modelled sheets, and assumption sheets)
- People & Culture systems operations support including releases, upgrades, and enhancements to Workday HCM and Workday Adaptive Planning
- Partner with stakeholders to understand business pain points, problem statements, and systemic inefficiencies
- Investigate and resolve intricate business and system issues, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable, future-proof solutions
Key Requirements
To add value to Cochlear in this role you'll be able to meet and demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and abilities in your application and at interview:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in one of the following fields: HR, Business, or IT.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience with Workday (HCM and Adaptive Planning) and Workday integrations.
- Knowledge of XML, XSLTs, ETV and XTT.
- Knowledge of developer tools such as Workday Studio and Workday integration tools, including EIBs.
- Must have excellent verbal/ written communication, user interaction, and interpersonal skills and work well in a team environment.
- Knowledge and experience with Agile practice and project delivery.
Total Rewards
In addition to the opportunity to develop your knowledge and grow professionally, we offer competitive wages and benefits.
- Pay Range in the United States: $126,000 - $140,000 based upon experience, as well as an annual bonus opportunity of 15% of base salary. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
- Benefit package includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance as well as 401(K) matching with immediate vesting, Paid Time Off, tuition reimbursement, maternity and paternity leave, Employee Stock Purchase Plan and pet insurance.
Who are we?
Human needs have always been our inspiration, ever since Professor Graeme Clark set out to create the first multi-channel cochlear implant because he saw his father struggle with hearing loss. We always start with people in mind – thinking about their needs.
For this reason, our products, services and support will continue to evolve and improve. We are by our customers’ side through the entire hearing journey, so they can experience a life full of hearing. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives and working in an organization where they can be part of bringing the mission to life each day.
Learn more about what our employees are saying about working at Cochlear:
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Physical & Mental Demands
The physical and mental demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to be in a stationary (seated/standing) position; utilize business technology for work product delivery, communicate orally and in writing with others internal or external to the organization, utilize problem solving/critical thinking skills to discern and convey information. May be asked to occasionally transport/move up to 30 pounds, depending on the position. Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to adjust focus. The individual is regularly required to utilize comprehension, critical thinking, communication, problem solving, organization reasoning, relating to others and discernment of items such as product specifications, procedures and processes to customers (whether internal or external). Influence, organization/classification of information and planning are also required.
The work environment is a home/office environment. This is representative of the environment an individual may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job.
Apply now by completing your application form online. Applicants must meet the job specific application criteria to be considered. Visit our careers site at www.cochlear.us/careers to learn more.
Deadline to apply by January 9th, 2026.
Cochlear Americas is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require accommodation with completing the online application, please contact us via web or phone at 303-264-2549.
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What We Do
Hear now. And always
As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, at Cochlear (ASX: COH) we are committed to our mission to help people hear and be heard. Our story started more than four decades ago when Professor Graeme Clark pioneered the world's first multi-channel cochlear implant and created an entirely new treatment for hearing loss.
Since our formation in 1981, we continue Professor Clark’s work to help people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a life full of hearing.
We have provided more than 650,000 implantable devices. Each recipient helps form a global community of millions, through families, friends, colleagues, teachers and more. And they’re not just connected to their own community — each shares a link with each other and to Professor Clark’s childhood desire to help people hear.
We aim to give people the best lifelong hearing experience and access to innovative future technologies. We understand the privilege of connecting people to a life lived with hearing. And we listen, respond and move with the times – to continue to bring hearing within reach of all those who need it.
That's how we live our mission every day. Our global workforce of more than 4,000 people shares a collective determination to give more people the opportunity to enjoy a life of hearing.
Cochlear’s global headquarters are on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia with regional headquarters in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Through our offices in over 180 countries we help people of all ages to hear.
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