Sr Change Management Consultant - German Speaking

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About the Team

The Workday Change Management team is passionate about helping our customers prepare their users to successfully adopt Workday. In short, change management is the “people side” of our deployments.

We are often remote from one another but that doesn’t stop our sense of collaboration, supportiveness and fun! Our team promotes Workday’s core values with ‘Employees’ being the first of them! 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’re a diverse, fun group of people, with an invaluable mix of experience and backgrounds, located across multiple locations within the region.

About the Role

Key customer activities will include:

• Serving as the primary point of contact for the work stream and being a great partner to your direct customer counterpart, as well as project leadership and executives within the customer organization

• Owning and leading change-related activities including, but not limited to, partner identification, change impact analysis, communications planning, training planning, readiness assessment, and adoption measurement

• Hands-on development of communications and training materials that support a successful transition to Workday for key end-users

• Maintaining the change management project plan tasks and providing mentorship to the customer on how these activities are impacted by functional achievements within the Workday methodology

Internal contributions will include:

• Supporting ongoing innovation of the service offering and change management practice through contribution to team Objectives and Key Results (OKRS)

• Participate in business development activities including estimating, drafting RFP responses, presenting our service to prospective customer leadership, and drafting SOW language

• Lend expertise to ad-hoc internal initiatives where change management insight is required

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years experience working with or Implementing a Tier 1 business software application such as: Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ADP, NetSuite, FinancialForce or similar applications

• 5+ years experience in HCM Deployment or Change Management on large transformation programmes that have included the following: HCM, Procurement or Supply Chain Management

• 5+ years Consulting experience, either as an Internal Consultant or with a Consulting/Software Company

Other Qualifications

• Ability to guide customer in strategic conversations and provide tactical, day-to-day support

• Thrive delivering a thoughtful, consultative approach to change management that results in outstanding experiences for our customers

• Experienced in leading others through changes to the way they work and how they interact with enterprise technology (strong preference for Workday-related experience)

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in a customer-facing environment

• Ability to travel up to 50% (under normal circumstances)

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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