{"id":4317964,"url":"https://alion.io/job/strada-global-workday-project-manager","title":"Workday Project Manager","company":{"id":1946100,"name":"Strada Global","domain":"stradaglobal.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/stradaglobal","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":108,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.565,"repost_share":0.019,"time_to_fill_p50_days":27,"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:58:10Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":88200,"max":163800,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":163800},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-13","last_verified_at":"2026-11-14T17:16:39Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Join us on a journey of endless possibilities\nAt Strada, possibility isn’t just a promise - it’s the foundation of everything we do. We believe in unlocking potential for every colleague, creating a journey of growth, discovery, and impact.\nWith the support, resources, and opportunities we provide, you’ll build a fulfilling future - working on meaningful projects that span industries and regions, contributing to outcomes that matter.\nStrada is a people, payroll, and technology leader simplifying international workforce management. Operating in 180+ countries, we design and deliver people-first solutions powered by cloud-based technology - helping organizations grow and enabling workforces to perform at their best.\nLearn more at www.stradaglobal.com\nStrada is currently recruiting for a Workday Benefits Consultant (AMS/post production). We have an ever-expanding business pipeline and are seeking suitably skilled and interested candidates to help us build our practice in line with the growth of the Workday ecosystem.\nAs a Workday Benefits Functional Consultant, you will play a key role as part of an industry-leading team, helping to drive results for our clients by delivering innovative and effective solutions.\nThe Workday Project Manager (PM) will be directly responsible for overseeing all stages of the project and project delivery. The responsibilities include assembling project teams, assigning individual responsibilities and enforcing accountability, developing and maintaining a budget and schedule to ensure timely completion of project, maintaining standard project management documentation and metrics with limited direction, working directly with internal and external client counterparts, other project leads, and ongoing operations to deliver successful implementation, and managing the scope of the project. The Workday Project Manager will also be responsible for promoting team engagement and building and maintaining a successful relationship with the client.\nManage Project Scope and Delivery\nLeads ME/Launch, Phase X, or smaller LE (under 15k Employees) projects.\nMay participate in sales opportunities and process.\nActs as a coach or buddy for Associate PM or a PM.\nParticipates in building the practice initiatives.\nManages Workday implementations through all life cycles stages.\nWork with the Client PM to develop the project plan and project charter, including procedures for managing Actions, Risks and Issues throughout the project.\nCommunicate Project Plan: ensure a common understanding by setting expectations regarding the project plan to align the stakeholders and team members. Implement approved actions and workarounds to mitigate project risks in order to minimize the impact on the project.\nExecute Project Plan: execute the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals.\nMonitor and Control Project Work: measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor and report on the progress of the project against plan and budget, identify and quantify variances, perform required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.\nManage Project Scope: manage changes to the project scope, schedule, roles & responsibilities and costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep the project plan and budget accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized changes as defined in the change control procedures; facilitate customer acceptance.\nEnsure any sign-offs required for the project (e.g. stage and/or milestone sign-offs, design sign-offs, Stage Gate Reviews, Change Order sign-offs etc.) are obtained in a timely manner.\nClose Contractual Obligations: Formalize final acceptance for the project from the sponsor/customer by ensuring that the delivered product(s) and services comply with the agreed deliverables lists, scope, and any organizational procedures. Ensuring the end of project survey is sent to the client as well as performing a project lessons learned.\nCommunicates: Provides information to others both internal and external to the organization; represents the organization to customers and other external sources.\nPartnership with Workday: liaise with Workday in terms of the project status updates, Delivery Assurance Checkpoints, product gap reporting and other processes as defined in Workday Deployment Methodology. Set up and maintain Customer Scorecard in the Partner Centre, manage creation and access to Client’s tenants including Customer Central.\nAlign and Manage Resources and Budget\n· Execute Resource Allocation Plan: manage resource allocation proactively by ensuring that appropriate resources and tools are assigned according to the project plan.\n· Celebrate, either formally or informally, the accomplishment of goals.\n· Engage Others: introduce the Alight project team members to the project. Manage, guide and motivate the Alight project team. Set clear vision, expectations and milestones for the project. Facilitate and enable effective teamwork and collaboration.\n· Manage Client billing: with support from a Project Coordinator, ensure that any time spent on the project work gets reported against the right project codes and charged to the client (unless agreed otherwise with the Engagement Executive).\n· Monitor and manage project budget and margin, take corrective actions when required.\nContribute to Practice Building\n· Contributes to knowledge management capital through activities such as sharing documented lessons learned, documented deliverables, and internal methodology initiatives\n· Understands quality standards for own work and monitors and manages work of team members, providing feedback as appropriate.\n· Follow Alight Workday Deployment Methodology, suggest improvements and proactively address issues.\nEnsure Customer Success\n· Client Relationship: establishes and maintains client relationships. Communicates feedback to leadership as appropriate.\n· Client Success: in conjunction with project’s Lead Consultants, plan and execute adequate Knowledge Transfer (within SOW scope) to the Client so they can be self-sufficient in administering Workday post go-live. Identify opportunities to introduce the Customer to Alight’s ongoing support offering, if the project is an initial deployment, and other services that may be beneficial for the Customer. If the ongoing support service is purchased, ensure timely completion of handover from the Project to the ongoing support team.\n· Measure Customer Satisfaction: measure customer satisfaction at the end of the project by capturing customer feedback using appropriate techniques to gain, maintain, and improve customer long-term relationships.\nKnowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Experience\nKnowledge, Education, Certification, Skills & Technical Proficiencies\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree in Business, Math, Computer Science, or Finance\nProficiency with MS Project\nProficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio\nAbility to recognize personal skills, abilities, limitations and strengths, taking appropriate action to pursue developmental activities to strengthen skills and experience\nAbility to work in a fast-paced multinational environment and to adapt to frequent change\nAbility to work under tight deadlines and manage conflicting priorities\nExcellent oral and written communications skills\nExcellent analytical and problem-solving skills\nCommercial acumen - understanding what drives project revenue and profitability. Ability to effectively manage project budgets and forecasting to maximize revenue and profitability.\nGood understanding of project management processes and techniques - including planning, progress tracking, risk and issue management frameworks, change control frameworks, sign-off procedures\nIf not already certified, must successfully pass Workday HCM and/or Financials Core and PM training classes and retain Workday certification\nPreferred\nStrong interpersonal skills to support team building\nAbility to advocate a creative atmosphere, facilitate entrepreneurial meetings, and envision a final product and overall market acceptance early in the design and/or development process\nAbility to develop cooperative relationships to achieve results through a win-win relationship\nAbility to establish alliances with other departments and organizations by recognizing dependencies\nAbility to transfer own knowledge to more junior colleagues and coach others\nAbility to provide best practice advice to help clients put in place an effective project structure and governance framework\nAbility to modify project deployment approach to cater for client specific requirements and constraints in a way that also caters for Alight business needs as well as Workday Delivery Assurance requirements\nGeneral understanding of Workday’s functionality (different modules and high level dependencies) as well as implementation tools\nAwareness of cultural diversity and can embrace and capitalize those differences; applies knowledge in decision-making process\nProject planning/scheduling and budgeting skills\nAbility to identify project risks by defining risk strategies and developing the risk management plan\nParticipates as part of a team, understanding the various work styles of others and their roles on the team. Demonstrates enthusiasm and commitment to the goals and objectives of the team. Seeks help from other team members as appropriate\nAbility to represent the company and department in a positive and professional manner\nEmbraces entrepreneurial spirit in work through recognizing and capitalizing on opportunities to improve the organization\nProject Management certification (PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner) is beneficial but not required\nundefined\nFlexible Working\nSo that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible.\nAt Strada, our values guide everything we do:\n· Anticipate Customer Needs - We stay ahead of trends so our customers can grow and succeed.\n· Own the Outcome - We take responsibility for delivering excellence and ensuring things get done right.\n· Challenge Ourselves to Work Smarter - We move faster than the world around us to drive change and accomplish more.\n· Empower Each Other to Solve Problems - We tackle challenges head on, ask tough questions, and collaborate to find the best solutions.\n· Care About Our Work - We understand that what we do impacts millions, and we have a responsibility to get it right.\nBenefits\nAt Strada, we support your whole self-offering a range of benefits for your health, wellbeing, finances, and future. These include health coverage, wellbeing programs, paid leave (vacation, sick, parental), retirement plans, learning opportunities, and more.\nAll offers are contingent on successful completion of background checks, where permitted by law and as appropriate for the role. These may include identity, education, employment, and in some cases, criminal history verification, checks against global watchlists, credit reports, and/or drug testing. You’ll be informed of the specific checks applicable to your role and location during the recruitment process.\nOur commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nStrada is dedicated to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that embracing differences strengthens our teams and drives innovation and success.\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nStrada is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination based on legally protected characteristics. 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