Our team in Amsterdam currently has an opening for a HRIS Manager Workday Global
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Job Summary
Brenntag is currently replacing it’s existing HR Information System with Workday in a global roll out to 75 countries and 17,500 Employees. Being part of our global People Platforms organization, this role will serve as Project Manager for the roll out of our Wave 2 implementation, starting in 2024 and will take over the responsibility as global Product Owner for Workday in 2025 onwards.
This role will be working with Partners in HR and IT to ensure technical milestones are followed with documentations, solution designs, financial/budget/resource breakdown, and signed-off alignments for readiness and project timelines of system implementation, go-live, hyper care, and post-production support.
You will provide technical expertise that can bridge between business processes and IT applications by translating business needs into functional and technical requirements; lay out executable projects that enable processes and functions operating more efficiently. You will also oversee and manage vendors who provide service to people platforms, including platform utilization, stability, resourcing, support, etc.
This Role will directly supervise a team of 4 functional Workday Specialists and report to the Director of People Platforms. We are seeking for someone can thrive in a remote work environment, demonstrating strong self-motivation and effective communication skills to collaborate seamlessly with our distributed team.
Responsibilities:
(The primary tasks, functions and deliverables of the role)
- Serve as the Functional Product Owner and Expert for our Workday Suite (HCM, Recruiting, Talent / Performance, Learning)
- Act as Project Manager for our global Roll out during the first year of employment in 2024
- Lead and manage the Workday Specialist Team to translate technology strategy into viable system configuration
Collaborate with Global HR, Regional HR, IT organization and relevant teams to deliver process improvement, change management and prioritization of projects
- Monitor the end-to-end management of the entire project lifecycle (initiation, budgeting, planning & designing, implementation and closing) of Global HR systems, with cross technical teams such as engineering, product, enterprise architecture, security, development, QA, support, etc.
- Perform analysis of schedules and collaborate with stakeholder groups to ensure that appropriate resources are allocated to projects to ensure successful and timely completion
- Manage project and business risks incl. transparent management reporting and budgeting
- Recruit consultants, production support and maintenance, etc. leverage & set up a cost-efficient and sustainable resourcing model that meets quality, flexibility and service-level.
- Responsible for managing financial activities and contractual negotiations and on-going maintenance.
- Bachelor's degree or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or other-related industry experience.8-10 years of professional experience in a global organization, supporting HR Technology either during an implementation or as ongoing operations.
- Experience in Workday and Project Management will be advantage.
- Strategic thinker who is business-centric and customer-focused; Demonstrate the ability to translate businesses requirements into technology solution
- Clear thinker who can piece together system and data flows (downstream, midstream, and upstream) and to identify business/user impacts, data flow, and process flow.Also, to mitigate risks
- Ability to work with senior level management, business units and corporate staff executives to develop a technology strategy that is integrated with IT and across all business units
- Experience in process analysis and development of technical concepts, configuration and implementation in the area of HR IT system
- Strong understanding of each business unit to include their business drivers for success, process and approaches to business models.
- Ability to build and leverage vendor/services provider relationships to improve support
- Prioritize and manage multiple programs simultaneously, strong project management and organizational skills
- Executive presence and Cross-Culture Awareness
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong influencing skill
- Strong communication skill, in both written and verbal
- Strong operation and execution track-records (say-do)
- Self-starter, proactive, and collaborative
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We look forward receiving your application.
Hadil Chamoun
Brenntag provides equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees of all backgrounds and identities to create a workplace where difference is valued because it forms a resilient and more innovative organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, parental and family status, or any other protected characteristic. We welcome applications from women, men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds.
