Workday HCM Lead Consultant

Role: Workday HCM Lead Consultant

Location: Hybrid working (Swindon, Newport or Stockton offices)

Role Type: Permanent / Full-time

Salary: Depending on experience

Shape the Future of Enterprise HR Technology:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Workday HCM Lead to join a large-scale organization undergoing significant digital and business transformation.

This is a senior leadership role within a high-performing Product and Platform function, offering the chance to influence the strategic direction of Workday Human Capital Management across a complex, enterprise-scale environment. You'll combine hands-on configuration expertise with technical leadership, stakeholder engagement and team development, ensuring the ongoing optimisation and support of critical HR systems.

Working within a collaborative multi-disciplinary team, you will act as the subject matter expert for Workday HCM, driving best practice, service excellence and continuous improvement while supporting a broad portfolio of HR and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical and functional leadership across Workday HCM, including:
• Core HCM
• Organisations, Staffing Models and Job Architecture
• Business Process Framework
• Compensation, Absence, Talent and Performance
• Lead complex requirements gathering and design workshops with business stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into scalable and effective Workday solutions.
• Oversee and assure Workday configuration, enhancements and change delivery.
• Provide technical governance, peer reviews and design assurance across projects and BAU activities.
• Manage and prioritise support workloads, ensuring service levels and performance targets are achieved.
• Act as an escalation point for complex incidents, defects and operational issues.
• Support release management, testing activities and regulatory updates.
• Drive process optimisation and standardisation across HR operations.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, suppliers and delivery partners.
• Mentor, coach and support colleagues, helping develop capability across the wider Workday team.

You will be an experienced Workday professional with a strong blend of technical expertise, leadership capability and stakeholder management skills.

Essential Experience

• Significant experience in a senior Workday HCM configuration, implementation or support role.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end HR processes within large, complex organisations.
• Experience providing technical leadership, governance and assurance within ERP or SaaS environments.
• Strong background in translating business requirements into functional designs and system solutions.
• Experience mentoring, coaching or leading analysts, consultants or delivery teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within Agile, SAFe or hybrid delivery environments.

Desirable Experience

• Experience within public sector, shared services or highly regulated environments.
• Knowledge of Workday Payroll and payroll integrations.
• Exposure to Workday reporting, analytics and integrations.
• Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion or other enterprise ERP platforms.
• Relevant Workday certifications.

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