Workday ERP Technical Program Manager (Clinical Healthcare)

Job Title: Workday ERP Technical Program Manager, Clinical Healthcare

Primary Location: Remote USA

Position Type: Full-Time Direct Hire

Overview

TalentFish is casting a line for a Workday Technical Program Manager (Workday). This is a full-time direct hire role. This is an exciting new position with our premier healthcare client! Come join one of the nation's highest-rated institutions in health and biomedical sciences.

Key Requirements

• This position requires experience supporting Workday in a clinical healthcare or medical hospital IT environment (not health insurance).
• Must have a strong technical background to drive technical work with IT Team Leads.
• Must have excellent communication skills and executive presence.
• Experience working on multiple end-to-end Workday full suite implementations (Phase 0 Support) involving all Workday modules, in a Program or Project Director role.
  
  

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 10
• years of IT project experience in lieu of degree.
• Industry certification such as PMI Project/Program/Portfolio Management Professional (PMP, PgMP, PfMP), Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean, Certified Agile Scrum Master, etc. required.
• Demonstrable successful Workday ERP implementation project experience.
• 5
• years in leading a large-scale ERP Implementation project, in a PM or Program Manager capacity with processes such as Budget, Finance, Procurement, and Human Resources/Payroll.
• Working HR/Finance experience and knowledge.
• Change management and communication planning and implementation experience.
• Technical and Functional Expertise with ERP Systems such as Workday, Oracle or Infor.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, Service Now, Jira. Confluence etc.
• Demonstrated success in leading large, complex, and high-visibility groups of concurrent projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including large group and executive-level facilitation and presentation skills.
  
  

Skills

What You'll Do. (Skills Used in this Position)

• Lead a large-scale, phased Workday ERP Implementation working with multiple business owners, with a shared vision, and equal accountability.
• Deliver results by building a culture of accountability and consistent application of project and program management practices.
• Provides direction and guidance regarding strategic and operational priorities to ensure project success on technical and operational initiatives and project deliverables, both short and long term.
• Facilitate teams and motivate others working across departments and entities within and who partner to ensure collaboration, communication, visibility, and successful delivery of the ERP program.
• Lead program team and deliver strategic value. Partner with the program sponsor and stakeholders to define the program key deliverables and roadmap. Creates a strategic and operational plan by working with project leadership. Manage and develop a Workday ERP program concept or strategy from inception to implementation.
• Actively participates, and facilitates as appropriate, meetings setting goals and work efforts for project personnel in various workstreams. Attends weekly/monthly and impromptu meetings and have frequent interaction with D&IS as well as non-D&IS stakeholders, external vendors, and others needed.
• Cultivates an environment of learning based on expert knowledge of Workday ERP implementations.
• Provide expert guidance and Workday implementation advice and guidance to the team. Provides direction and advice to Project Managers, Team Leads and other individuals on the ERP Workday implementation program, spanning technology, business, concerns and risks, and accomplishments.
• Responsible for achieving goals, timelines, risk mitigation, developing budget and monitoring, and continuous improvement of the ERP program.
• Step in to manage projects or aspects of projects within the programs you own, as needed.
• Provide guidance and assessments on project processes
• offer suggestions and areas for improvement to ensure customer feedback is always considered for continuous improvement and meeting project goals and objectives.
• Identifies risks by analyzing key data points to drive proper decision making by the project's leadership and governance structure. Utilizes previous ERP implementation experience to determine where risk/issues could affect scope, schedule, and budget. Quickly notifies program leadership of project impacts and courses of action for correction. Anticipate and mitigate risk by conducting assessments across the program to determine if the implementation plans meet stakeholder requirements and will achieve strategic objectives.
• Plan and manage large, moderately complex technical programs that may consist of multiple projects or teams. Through effective program management, drive delivery of project and program work from matrix team. Leverage matrix team to prevent and resolve issues. Help matrix team or other junior program and project managers to refine their individual project management skills and behaviors.
• Direct and accountable for organizational change management with key stakeholders. Communicate to inform and influence key stakeholders and end-users.
• Biweekly and monthly reporting summarizing key milestones, decisions, issues, recommendations, and/or areas of risk or concern. Provides expert ERP project advice on project performance measures and project management metrics to improve the quality of project activities and deliverables, measures benchmarks and plots realistic and achievable targets. Works closely with other project leadership to determine metrics that need to be tracked during the project, and post implementation. Based on expertise will recommend the most beneficial metrics to be tracked.
• Manages and aligns priorities throughout the course of the project applying advanced skills and best practices of ERP project management, and implementation. Reviews and continuously improves the Project Management Plans to ensure most accurate information is reflected for utilization by the project team. Makes strategic recommendations utilizing successful strategies that help achieve project goals and statewide needs by utilizing expert experience in ERP implementations.
  
  

The Company

Our client is a premier clinical healthcare organization, ranked among the Best Hospitals throughout the world and one of the nation's highest-rated institutions in health and biomedical sciences. Our client truly cares about their employees! They offer an extensive range of benefits including multiple healthcare plans, education programs, employee assistance programs, multiple retirement investment plans, and more. Apply today!

TalentFish is an employee-owned company pioneering a new realm in talent acquisition. We are redefining IT staffing by evolving AI, video screening, and our unique platform. TalentFish focuses on providing the best employee, consultant, and client experience possible. At TalentFish we are an Equal Opportunity Employer; we embrace and encourage diversity!