Principal, Revenue Enablement Portfolio Manager

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About the Team

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. The Global Sales Enablement team is dedicated to empowering our revenue teams with innovative enablement that enhances effectiveness and drives organizational impact.

About the Role

Workday's Global Sales Enablement team is looking to hire an experienced Portfolio Program Manager with outstanding business operations and communication skills. The individual will have a demonstrated passion for bringing to bear their technical skills, critical thinking, and problem solving to design, implement, and govern enablement portfolio data, systems, and processes. 

The primary focus is to make the best possible use of enablement and business resources to deliver the maximum value and benefits from projects and programs within the strategic portfolio. The position includes ownership of tooling, data, processes, and communications for identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating project and program resources. The position is also responsible for reporting on the state and performance of initiatives within the enablement project portfolio.

This role assumes the overarching responsibility for supporting enablement leadership in their efforts at overseeing, managing and prioritizing the entire life cycle of enablement investments and initiatives to optimally achieve enterprise goals and objectives.

Data Management and Process Governance

• Facilitate and coordinate the establishment of the project portfolio definition, its structure and processes, from intake and strategic alignment of projects and programs to portfolio categories and criteria, through evaluation, selection and prioritization; to execution.

• Use metrics and data visualization effectively to report portfolio performance and support decision-making at the team and organizational level.

• Develop, implement, and maintain enablement portfolio source of truth (Smartsheets); facilitate simplified user experience that promotes impeccable data hygiene and on-demand reporting.

• Launch common practices, tools, and templates for portfolio and project management; Create and maintain required project portfolio documentation and artifacts

• Manage day-to-day portfolio management activities; partner closely with RevOps PMO to facilitate portfolio reviews and road-mapping activities.

• Facilitate the budget planning and spend processes. 

• Ensure the adherence to the appropriate governance functions relating to the portfolio and in accordance with enterprise guidelines, policies and practices.

• Perform regular health checks of project QA checklists.  Ensure scheduling of key tollgates. Ensure acceptance criteria for operational readiness are met prior to launch. 

• Monitor for proper change management of scope and schedule; Ensure communication of change with impacted stakeholders. 

• Identify staffing needs. As mandated and resourced by leadership, ensure and balance the availability of the required skills and competencies across teams.

Effectively manage portfolio roadmaps

• Create and govern criteria and procedures for making portfolio decisions.

• Engage with and conduct periodic reviews with enablement, RevOps, executives, and other relevant bodies to validate and assess the project portfolio, implement change, and reprioritize to me