Principal Program Manager-Global Partner Operations

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About the Team

The Global Partner Organization is passionate about developing partnerships that accelerate innovation and growth with Industry differentiation, expanded reach and customer success. This is an outstanding opportunity to be part of the team that is driving a rapid and global change of paradigm, to adopt a modern ecosystem and implement a unified and global partner strategy with local flavor, with cross-functional engagement in programs, systems, processes and people.

About the Role

The Global Partners Organization is hiring an experienced Principal Program Manager. This is an ideal opportunity for an individual contributor with a comprehensive Program Management toolkit and proven track record to influence, drive, and collaborate cross-functional teams to build our modern Partner ecosystem for Workday.

The Principal Program Manager works within our Partner Management Organization (PMO) pillar of the Global Partner Operations organization. The ideal candidate will have prior work experience in Partner Ecosystems, Sales Strategy & Operations or Revenue Operations. The role requires strong analytical skills and unwavering attention to detail. You are self-motivated, results driven, and have experience presenting and communicating to different levels of leadership and collaborators across the organization. You work independently and take ownership while driving alignment & execution of entrepreneurial, cross-functional initiatives.

You will report to our Sr. Director of Program Management with primary focus areas to include:

• Works closely with the Program Sponsors and Leaders to drive decisions, mitigate risks and resolve issues

• Presents program status updates to senior management, highlighting risks and providing recommendations to support product and operational level decisions.

• Identifies and handles risks, anticipates issues and tracks key actions throughout the program life cycle

• Have in depth understanding of the product vision, value proposition and roadmap, key results and interdependencies

• Leverage past operational, enablement and customer experience to solve problems, fill gaps and achieve objectives through a cross functional team.

• Responsible for effective communication and issue resolution while ensuring timely decisions are being made.

• Scopes business problems and processes by identifying key issues, inputs, team members, and outcomes.

• Continue to improve our GPO PMO processes, procedures and collater

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of cross organizational program management within a go to market, SAAS, software organization

• 5+ years of experience in Sales Strategy, Business Operations or Partner Management

Other Qualifications

• Experience in Program Management of a CRM or PRM

• A toolbox of multiple program management methodologies

• A passion for team mentorship, employee development and building a team culture based on delivering results at speed while having fun

• Experience with PMO portfolio management, framework and standards development.

• Experience in working and building trusted relationships with executive leaders

• Knowledge of design thinking, strategy definition, agility concepts and the ability to step in as a business transformation advisor as needed.

• Experience leading transformation programs in the software industry with an enterprise products company or consulting experience is a plus

 

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