Workday Engagement Manager (Higher Education)

The Cognizant Workday Practice is seeking an Engagement Manager with successful end-to-end medium to large ERP implementation experience in a consulting environment for our thriving Higher Education Portfolio practice. As an Engagement Manager, you’ll act as the face of the project, tasked with successfully leading Workday implementations from beginning to end with our Higher Education clients. You’ll communicate and address any budget or resourcing constraints, while keeping in mind our customer’s satisfaction, and the project’s success and profitability.  This individual enjoys being a leader, manager, and mentor to others and thrives on customer, company, and team accomplishment.   

Key Responsibilities: 

• Become an expert in Cognizant’s Cynergy™ (Workday) Implementation Methodology and use it on all engagements, while demonstrating competency in the Workday product suite- HCM, Payroll, Financials, and/or Student. 
• Manage 1 - 2 large Workday product implementations in the Project Manager role. 
• Participate in the sales cycle when requested to gather requirements, formulate delivery approach, and develop a proposal/SOW. 
• Ensure projects are properly planned and staffed. 
• Track issues and risks, communicate status, and escalate concerns appropriately, while working with the client project manager to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframes. 
• Provide guidance and mentoring to other Collaborative consultants. 
• Ensure the project is delivered within the budget outlined in the SOW. 
• Present client with change orders to address changes in scope, timeline or cost that is different from the SOW. 
• Present at Executive Steering Committee meetings. 
• Work with Workday’s Delivery Assurance to ensure compliance with checkpoints. 
• Assist in the transition of the customer from professional services to product support. 
• Ensure the client can serve as a reference upon completing their implementation, and identify opportunities to position other service offerings. 

Skills and Requirements: 

• Successful project management experience leading medium to large ERP implementations, preferably in a consulting environment. 
• Previous Workday experience strongly preferred, but not required.
• Prior experience working with colleges and universities preferred.
• Knowledge of ERP, specifically HCM, Finance, and Payroll. 
• A practitioner background in HR, Finance, or Payroll is a plus.  
• PMP a plus. 
• Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site if needed.

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Why choose Cognizant:

• Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
• Opportunity to do great work
• Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
• Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
• Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
• An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs

Cognizant Core Values:

• Start with a point of view: I apply my expertise to gain trust and to lead our clients forward.
• Seek data, build knowledge: I use facts to guide my actions and decisions.
• Always strive, never settle: I act with agility and creativity, determined to stay one step ahead.
• Work as one: I deliver solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of Cognizant.
• Create conditions for everyone to thrive: I include, enable, and invest in everyone around me.
• Do the right thing, the right way: I always make the ethical choice.