Job Description

About the Role

Our team lives and breathes Workday’s core values with ‘Employees’ being the first one.

This is why we:

  • offer flexible work schedules

  • empower you to follow your desired career path & achieve professional and personal goals

  • encourage work-life balance and wellbeing

  • are proud to champion equal opportunities for everyone

    • We promote a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and aspirational goal setting; inspiring and encouraging team members to own and develop their career and become the best professionals they can be!

    Are you willing to drive our customers to success in a fast-paced environment, achieving the transformation they are looking for?

    As a project manager within our delivery team you will learn and apply the Workday methodology to successfully lead Workday project teams deploying our Finance / Human Resources / Procurement solution. You will be responsible for projects across all types of industries, starting with medium size deployments and up to very large and sophisticated global deployments. 

    You will be the key player guiding customers through our deployment lifecycle, resolving challenges in a creative way by partnering with Workday delivery leadership, consultants, and resource management teams. Your role is to deliver the expected value to our Customer on time and on budget, with the best Customer experience from project start up through go-live.

    Project Managers report to the Delivery Directors of the EMEA Professional Services. 

    The role may require up to 25% travel across the EMEA region.

    Key objectives for the role:

  • Customer deployment success and satisfaction

  • Scope and risk management

  • Project budget and forecast management

  • Timely and transparent communication

  • Effective team management

    • About You

    Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience of project management with HCM or Financial implementations within medium or large enterprise

  • 5+years of experience implementing Workday, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or similar applications

  • Successful candidates have a balance of functional (business) and technical experience

    • Other Qualifications

  • Passion and drive for customer success

  • Leadership abilities to empower and focus the project team on deployment objectives

  • Strong at building relationships, working cross-functionally and can influence internal and external stakeholders.

  • Excellent organization, time management, and presentation skills 

  • Ability to manage multiple project priorities at the same time

  • Manage 3rd parties on project teams

  • Present at Customer Executive Steering Committee meetings

  • Solid track record in Project Management delivery within a Professional Services environment

  • Work effectively with sales partners to collect requirements, formulate delivery approach, and develop a proposal

  • Deliver projects within the budget outlined in the Statement Of Work

  • Experience working with customer project managers to proactively identify/resolve issues

  • Workday deployment methodology and processes

  • International organization experience 

  • Promote a positive and inclusive working environment

  • Passionate for learning and adopting future AI technologies and trends towards Agentic LLMs

  • Fluency in English and Italian is mandatory

  • Milan based only

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