Workday Project Manager

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:

As a Workday Project Manager in Kainos, you’ll fully manage the successful implementation of Workday solutions for customers by working closely with customer business teams and internal delivery teams to drive the scope, definition and delivery of solutions that are fit for purpose and commercially viable. You’ll take accountability for the complete delivery lifecycle alongside the sales and capability Solution Architects . You’ll manage all aspects of your projects, which will typically be either one large, complex project or multiple smaller projects. This will include project planning, resourcing, milestone t racking, commercial management and customer satisfaction.

Your Key Responsibilities Include

• Commercially managing the implementation of global Workday programmes from pre-sales through implementation to hand over to AMS (Application Management Services).
• Acting as the key client interface between functional and technical teams and the client.
• Pragmatically offering domain experience (HCM, Fins, Payroll or where relevant to a Workday Capability) to provide functional insight and thought-leadership .
• Managing all aspects of project delivery including project planning, resourcing, milestone tracking, commercial management and customer satisfaction.
• Leading and supporting blended teams of colleagues, client and partner resources to share knowledge and develop an integrated delivery ethic.
• Agree ing objectives, outputs, milestones, timescale with client, together with associated contract and commercial terms.
• Identifying requirements, business processes, application configurations, testing plans and other artefacts to be documented to ensure shared understanding and facilitate knowledge transfer.
• Creat ing well structured & accurate deliverables and present ing to client steering level groups to secure proposed recommendations and agreement.
• Identify ing and actioning appropriate ly opportunities to win business, including negotiating and closing at a senior client level.
  

Minimum (essential) Requirements

• Experience in implementing back office systems with direct experience in the successful delivery of solutions within a consulting environment/ IT services environment
• Full lifecycle project management experience, from initial opportunity through to requirement development / definition, functional solution design, implementation, data-migration, system testing, user acceptance testing, go-live and service management
• Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations. You will be able to intervene effectively and resolve customer escalations appropriately
• Commercial e xperience of managing and supporting geographically distributed and blended teams of colleagues, client and partner resources to share knowledge and develop an integrated delivery ethic
• Excellent commercial management , influencing and negotiation skills
• Excellent communicator, able to communicate with customers and colleagues with impact and credibility. Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences
• An emerging role model within Kainos and wider Workday ecosystem
• Excellent business writing skills with experience in the production of business cases, requirement documentation, tender documents, contracts, statements of work and change requests
• Demonstrable s uccess in identifying and taking appropriate action on opportunities for additional business.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of customer demands and Kainos commercials
• Ability to widen and maintain a network of external contacts
• Understanding of risk management and able to manage risk
• Able, if required, to travel to customer sites in the same region (minimal out of region travel may also be required)
• Support the operations function ensure that our consultant pool is used in the most commercially advantageous way, balancing development needs and personal preferences
  

Desirable

• Professional qualifications where applicable in your Capability
• Develop and deliver products/offerings and services that differentiate Kainos in the marketplace
• Identify talent for rapid development within the capability
• Experience of managing, mentoring and developing teams
• Working with Workday or other SaaS delivery methodolog ies
• PRINCE 2 (or similar) certification
• Strong functional domain expertise including areas such as HR and Finance (including Payroll)
  

Who You Are

Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren’t abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience. These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.

We’re an inclusive bunch at Kainos and we believe in equal opportunity. We welcome applications from all walks of life, including those with criminal records. Everyone who is offered a position here undergoes a basic background check , however no one is treated differently due to their background where it isn’t relevant to the role. It’s important to note - failure to reveal information which is relevant to the position sought, could result in us having to withdraw the conditional offer of employment.

In short: Having a criminal record will not exclude you from a career with Kainos. This depends entirely on the nature and requirements of the position, together with the circumstances and background of offences. Kainos has a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders (available on request).