Project Manager - HR Technology

Role & responsibilities

Project Leadership & Governance

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Workday and HR Transformation projects (Planning Design Build Testing Deployment Go-Live Hypercare).
• Establish project governance, manage stage gates, and ensure adherence to Project Management and Workday methodologies.
• Define, monitor, and report project KPIs, budgets, timelines, and scope.
• Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and drive timely resolution/escalation.
  

Stakeholder & Team Management

• Engage and align with global stakeholders, including HR, IT, Finance, and external vendors/partners (Workday, Accenture, Deloitte, etc.).
• Manage cross-functional and multi-entity teams in a matrix organization, ensuring clarity of ownership and accountability.
• Foster collaboration across regions, functions, and business units to achieve alignment.

Execution & Delivery

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans using Smartsheet, and other PM tools.
• Coordinate system integrations, data migration, testing cycles (UAT, E2E, regression), and cutover planning.
• Ensure compliance with change management processes and quality assurance standards.
• Oversee vendor delivery and ensure contractual obligations (SOW, milestones, deliverables) are met.
  

Communication & Reporting

• Provide regular executive-level reporting (SteerCo decks, dashboards, progress summaries).
• Ensure transparent communication across all levels of the organization.
• Translate complex technical and functional updates into simple, actionable insights for senior leadership.
  

Risk, Compliance & Change Management

• Identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring data privacy, compliance, and security requirements are met.
• Partner with Change & Enablement teams to drive adoption strategies, training, and stakeholder readiness.
• Support HR process optimization and adoption of digital HR solutions beyond Workday.
  

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors degree in Business, IT, HR, or related field.
• 5+ years of project management experience (global HR TECHNOLOGY / HR Transformation programs strongly preferred).
• Strong knowledge of Project Management practices and Workday project methodology.
• Proven track record managing large-scale, multi-country HR TECHNOLOGY implementations.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, Excel (advanced), Smartsheet, MS Project, PowerPoint and PPT.
• Experience with project management tools like ADO (Azure DevOps), Workday, or other HR tools (SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, etc.) is a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management, vendor management, and executive communication skills.

Ability to lead in a matrix organization with distributed teams across multiple geographies.