Principal, Program Manager (Portfolio Manager)

Experienced Portfolio Operations Professional

The Business Technology (BT) team in Workday continues its mission to deliver unparalleled value to our business partners and customers. The team of portfolio leads work with stakeholders within BT and outside to define, align on, and implement the strategic programs and operations. The team is also responsible for standardizing program methodologies, tools, and operations / metrics across the BT organization to provide a unified experience to business stakeholders and customers.

The BT team is looking for an experienced Portfolio Operations professional to join the team. The ideal candidate will work across functional areas with business partners and will have a proven ability to implement change within a large scale organization. They will be responsible for managing the BT portfolio of work and capacity management. This role also focuses on identifying areas of improvement in existing processes and on removing portfolio roadblocks.

They are the organization's expert on navigating operating model processes, including capacity and dependency management. They oversee operational process excellence from planning to commitment and are an invaluable resource to teams navigating these processes for the first time. They establish strong relationships with peers and influence future process improvements. We are looking for someone who is detail-oriented, organized, analytical, able to multitask across competing priorities and passionate about helping others.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure alignment with portfolio management and partners in the portfolio management process including intake, prioritization, and status reporting.
• Champion a culture of innovation, experimentation, continuous learning and encourage teams to embrace new technologies, processes, and practices to improve efficiency and get results.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, business partners, customers and executives to drive continuous improvement, transparency, and collaboration.
• Orchestrate and lead business partner relationship improvement initiatives including QBPRs.
• Lead BT portfolio management to ensure standard operating and reporting practices across BT towers.
• Liaise with the BT portfolio management to enable centralized resource management. Enable standardized and flexible capacity planning and management.
• Establish and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to measure the success and effectiveness of the product operating model transformation efforts and provide regular reports and updates to leadership. In addition, be responsible for your towers OKR process.
• Use a data-driven approach to see opportunities and roadblocks and to mitigate risks to transformation efforts. Work with teams to develop effective solutions to overcome challenges.
• Principal level understanding of operating model methodologies, tools, and standard processes, and stay up-to-date on industry trends and developments.
• Define & implement comprehensive operational cadence aligned to Workday's annual cadence & other key team members, including partnering with the BT PMO on Annual planning.
• Partner with leaders to assess existing processes and programs; find opportunities to redesign and take action to unlock value and drive organizational health.
• Support and / or execute key employee & leadership meetings, including All Staff Meetings, Quarterly Business Partner Reviews, Leadership Offsites, etc.
• Partner with Leadership to handle the budget on an ongoing basis.

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Our Approach to Flexible Work : With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds : in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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