Workday Change Management Consultant

Alchemy partners with Higher Education, State & Local Government, and Healthcare institutions to maximize their investment in Workday technology, delivering a proven approach with a deeply experienced team to unlock the full potential of these transformative solutions.

At Alchemy, we believe that success begins with people, and we’ve made it our mission to hire individuals with great potential and to provide them with the tools and resources needed to build rewarding Workday consulting careers.

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Your role

As a Change Management Consultant, you will lead and/or support the change management and training efforts for Workday implementations across Alchemy's higher education customers. The goal of change management is to accelerate Workday adoption by preparing leadership to successfully enable their organizations during deployment and after go-live. The Change Management Consultant will be responsible for developing the strategy, plan, and deliverables based upon SOW requirements and customer needs.

Your responsibilities

• Develop change management and training strategy for customers based upon Alchemy’s methodology, framework, and best practices

• Conduct change impact and stakeholder analysis with functional leads to identify change impacts and end-user implications

• Design the communications and training strategy to support successful customers

• Develop written and verbal communication materials to enable end users

• Evaluate risks and opportunities for customers and identify mitigation strategies to ensure Workday adoption

• Develop Workday training courses including job aids, e-learning modules, classroom style training and train-the-trainer using the Workday tenant

• Create university networks by engaging leaders and developing activities that enhance the overall change management effectiveness resulting in higher adoption levels

• Support building the change management practice, methodology, and framework by working on internal projects as needed

About you (Required skills)

• Bachelor's Degree or commensurate work experience

• 3-5+ years relevant experience in a consulting team-oriented ERP Change Management environment (ERP such as Workday, SAP, PeopleSoft, etc.)

• Knowledge of learning theory and change management theory

• Experience with instructional design and training development/delivery

• Experience and/or knowledge of change management and training principles and methodologies such as Prosci™, ACMP Standard, ATD Competency Model, etc. (Prosci™ highly preferred)

• Excellent presentation and communication skills - both oral and written

• Ability to work with stakeholders including leaders, functional consultants, and customers

• Ability to make decisions and take actions based upon feedback, information, and data

• Ability to solve problems and produce quality work for customers

• Ability to travel up to 20%

About you (Bonus skills)

• Experience deploying and adopting Workday HCM, Financials, and/or Student,

• Consulting experience within Higher Education (college/university) or Public Sector

• Master’s degree

For you (What we offer)

• Market competitive compensation packages and annual merit program 

• A remote work environment 

• One-time home office reimbursement for new hires 

• Expense allowance per pay period (towards technology, office, and/or wellness) 

• Investment in your ongoing Workday training 

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits that begin on day one 

• HSA, FSA, STD, LTD, and life benefits 

• Unlimited vacation and unlimited sick days. We want you to take care of yourself and those who matter most to you 

• Ten (10) paid holidays 

• One (1) paid flex day 

• 401(k) with employer annual contribution 

• Paid parental leave 

• DEIB council 

• Quarterly awards and recognition 

• Award-winning culture! Alchemy is a Great Place to Work-certified company