Senior Project Manager

Strategic Staffing Solutions customer is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead a multi-year global program implementing Workday timekeeping capabilities across a large, multi-country footprint. This role will drive end-to-end country deployments -localizing a global design, coordinating cross-functional delivery, and ensuring consistent execution across rollout waves.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end country deployments for Workday Time Tracking rollouts, including planning, localization, testing, go-live, and hypercare.
• Drive consistent execution across global rollout waves and coordinate cross-functional teams across HR, Payroll, IT, Finance, and Operations.
• Own integrated project plans, schedules, dependencies, and stage-gate readiness across countries and workstreams.
• Manage RAID logs, governance processes, executive reporting, and steering committee communications.
• Track program financials, forecasts, scope, and change control to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Oversee external implementation partners, contractors, and vendor deliverables, including escalation and issue management.
• Coordinate delivery of Workday Time Tracking, Absence/Time Off, payroll integrations, and timekeeping technologies.
• Ensure operational readiness, process adoption, compliance alignment, and post-go-live stabilization across deployments.
• Support transition toward a long-term global support and Center of Excellence operating model.

Qualifications (Required)

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience, leading large global programs with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success leading global, cross-functional technology deployment programs in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong project management capability: integrated planning, RAID, stage-gate governance, executive reporting, and decision facilitation.
• Experience influencing and driving accountability across senior stakeholders (including director-level leaders) without direct reporting lines.
• Experience managing external implementation partners/consulting organizations and coordinating change control with procurement.
• Excellent English communication skills (verbal and written), including comfort presenting to executive audiences.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Prior experience working with global consulting firms/SIs.
• Experience using Smartsheet (preferred) to manage integrated project plans, RAID logs, and status reporting (or equivalent PM tooling).
• Experience with large multi-country rollouts (wave-based) and complex regulatory environments (e.g., EU/LATAM/APAC).
• Workday implementation experience, especially Workday Time Tracking / Absence / Time Off and related integrations.
• Familiarity with Workday deployment methodology and/or stage-gate delivery models.
• Experience implementing timekeeping, HRIS, payroll-related integrations, or operational platforms (e.g., WMS) across multiple countries.

Offered:

• B2B contract for 6 months with possibility to extend contract or convert to permanent employment.
• Pay rate 34-38 eur/h.