Project Manager (Workday Expert)

Our enterprise client is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the implementation of Workday Advanced Compensation with minimal supervision. This role ensures successful delivery of scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives. You will drive project execution, create strategic and tactical plans, set milestones, allocate resources, and delegate tasks effectively. Collaboration with stakeholders and management of cross-functional dependencies are key to success.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Leadership: Own all aspects of the Workday Advanced Compensation implementation to deliver approved business functionality.
• Planning & Execution: Define and execute project scope, approach, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and budget.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Partner with stakeholders and related projects to develop detailed schedules and ensure alignment.
• Lifecycle Management: Oversee change requests, issue resolution, risk mitigation, and status reporting throughout the project.
• Budget Oversight: Manage project budgets, including purchases, contracts, monthly spend, and resource forecasting.
• Vendor Management: Facilitate purchase requisitions and onboarding of third-party resources.
• Risk & Issue Resolution: Address low-risk issues or scope changes; escalate significant risks to senior leadership.
• Communication: Prepare and deliver presentations to stakeholders as needed.
• Methodology Application: Apply or adapt project management techniques and methodologies to solve challenges effectively.
  
  

Essential Requirements

• Experience: 7-10 years of project management experience.
• Workday Expertise: Deep knowledge of Workday Advanced Compensation, with emphasis on global implementation.
• Global Scope: Ability to implement advanced compensation for annual merit and bonus processes across ~15 countries.
• Localization: Develop compensation statements in approximately five local languages.
• Cross-Cultural Coordination: Ensure compliance and consistency across multiple regions and languages.
  
  

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

Email Your Resume In Word To

Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the position with you. Clicking apply is the best way to apply, but you may also:

alexa.kline@jobalert.creativecircle.com

• Please do NOT change the email subject line in any way. You must keep the JobID: linkedin : AS28-1884460 -- in the email subject line for your application to be considered.***
  
  

Alexa Kline - Recruiter, National Delivery

For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.

This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 11/18/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.

,