Workday- Project Manager

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About the Job You're Considering Capgemini is seeking an experienced Workday Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of Workday transformation initiatives across Human Capital Management (HCM), Finance, Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence, Talent, Recruiting, Benefits, Learning, Integrations, Reporting, and Analytics. This role is responsible for managing the full project lifecycle, from strategy and planning through deployment, stabilization, and ongoing optimization.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong blend of project management expertise, Workday functional knowledge, stakeholder engagement skills, and consulting experience. This individual will partner with client executives, business leaders, HR organizations, and technical teams to drive large-scale enterprise transformation programs while ensuring delivery excellence, quality, governance, and business value realization.

Project Managers are responsible for overseeing the project/engagement/contract/activity on a daily basis and are responsible for delivering high-quality results within the identified objectives and constraints, ensuring the effective use of the allocated resources. They are responsible for risk and issue management, project/engagement communication and stakeholder management. Project managers perform the activities of planning, organising, securing, monitoring and managing the resources and work necessary to deliver specific project goals and objectives in an effective and efficient way.

Responsible for ensuring that client needs are satisfied through the formulation, development, implementation and delivery of application solutions in response to client requirements, expressed in approved service requests. PM are responsible for the overall projector engagement plan, budget, structure, schedule and staffing requirements for the delivery organization. PM ensure that the project meets its deliverables in an agreed schedule, according to the scope, within stipulated budget, and to quality standards.

Your Role Lead end-to-end Workday implementation, enhancement, optimization, migration, and Application Management Services (AMS) engagements.

Manage project scope, budget, resource planning, timelines, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and change control processes.

Serve as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders, executive sponsors, and delivery teams throughout the engagement lifecycle.

Develop and manage project plans, work breakdown structures, staffing models, milestones, status reporting, and governance frameworks.

Coordinate cross-functional Workday teams including HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Talent, Recruiting, Learning, Compensation, Finance, Integrations, Reporting, Security, and Data Conversion work streams.

Facilitate discovery sessions, design workshops, solution reviews, conference room pilots, user acceptance testing (UAT), and deployment readiness assessments.

Drive alignment between business requirements, Workday leading practices, and organizational transformation objectives.

Lead project governance meetings, steering committee reviews, executive status updates, and stakeholder communications.

Monitor project health through KPIs, delivery metrics, RAID logs, quality reviews, and financial management reporting.

Manage client expectations, resolve escalations, and proactively identify…