Senior Program Manager, Global Partner Operations

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About the Team

Global Partner Operations is passionate about enabling partnerships that accelerate innovation and growth and drive mutually beneficial outcomes for Workday, Partners and Customers. This is an outstanding opportunity to be part of a team that is driving a rapid and global change of paradigm by adopting a modern ecosystem and implementing a unified and global partner strategy, with cross-functional engagement in programs, systems, processes and people.

About the Role

Global Partners Operations is hiring an experienced Senior 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 with cross-functional teams to build the Partner ecosystem for Workday.

The 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 complex, cross-functional initiatives.

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

• Works closely with the Program Sponsors and Leaders to deliver desired program outcomes

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

• Identifies risks, anticipates issues, facilitates decision making and tracks key actions throughout the program life cycle

• Manages the program roadmap, key milestones, results and interdependencies

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

• Supports improvement of GPO PMO processes, procedures and collateral

About You

We are looking for an experienced Senior Program Manager teammate who is passionate about delivering on impactful programs and understands the value of structure while balancing the need for agility and innovation within that framework. Using transformation program management standard methodologies, this role will guide stakeholders in the facilitation of business strategy definition, scope identification, cross functional design, timeline alignment and on time delivery of committed outcomes and results.

Basic Qualifications:

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

• 3+ years of experience in Sales Strategy, Business Operations or Partn