Senior Manager, Project Management, Workday and Recruitment Platforms

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What you'll do...

About Walmart Global People

Leaders and individual contributors alike look to our Global People teams to influence strategy, optimize working models and enable the business to achieve results while preserving the fabric that sets us apart and keeps our 1.5M+ associates coming to work every day. By providing the necessary tools and insights, our People professionals operate as partners at every phase of workforce planning, talent management, organizational design and change management. From building communities to preparing Walmart for the future, to be a member of this team is to operate as a vital component to our sustainable success. Together, we think beyond the status-quo and inspire others to evoke positive change. When you join us in Global People, you immerse yourself in our culture, becoming a trailblazer and a true agent of influence. 

About the Role:

We’re seeking a Senior Manager to organize and lead efforts to sustain, maintain and enhance recruiting platforms, with a focus on Workday Recruiting and other internal recruitment tools. This role functions as a business-facing program lead, owning key internal partnerships with tech and product teams, responsible for owning the end-to-end program delivery of system changes tied to legal, compliance, and talent acquisition process improvements.

The ideal candidate brings a blend of program delivery and business analyst skills, with the ability to work across technical teams, operational leaders, and talent acquisition stakeholders, globally. This individual must be able to prioritize competing needs, influence and gain alignment across stakeholders, and track delivery against technical team capacity and KPIs.

A strong understanding of recruiting workflows—including intern, hourly, and salaried is a must and will be instrumental in delivering on key objectives ensuring compliance and identifying opportunities to enhance processes across our operations.

We're seeking a strong collaborator with a proven ability to influence and plan strategically with product and tech partners, tolerate ambiguity, adapt to shifting priorities, and actively listen.

What You’ll Do...

• Own the full lifecycle of Workday Recruiting to sustain, maintain, and enhance the platform, from intake through implementation

• Manage prioritization of requests based on business impact, engineering capacity, and urgency

• Communicate regularly with requestors, keeping stakeholders informed throughout the full lifecycle

• Gather and document business needs, design and align with stakeholder on solutions and partner with Engineering to drive documentation of technical requirements

• Engage and partner with TA segment leaders to review enhancements and gather feedback to inform requirements, testing, enablement considerations

• Collaborate with Technical Program Managers, Engineering and Product teams to review technical changes and ensure business context is accurately reflected

• Review and validate testing, ensuring coverage of relevant business use cases; coordinate testing participants and collect feedback

• Leverage recruiting domain expertise to provide oversight of user acceptance testing (UAT) and compile final business approval before launch

• Own or support Change, Training, and Communication (CTC) efforts related to Workday enhancements

• Manage cutover planning and coordinate timing with operational and business readiness needs

• Identify and escalate work that falls outside this role’s scope to appropriate support teams, applying sound triage judgment

What You’ll Bring...

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