Workday Enterprise Project Manager (9 Month Contract Role)

About Us: CompassX is a boutique business and technology consulting firm. We help Fortune 500 and high-growth clients deliver their most strategic initiatives, from enterprise transformations to digital and data-driven projects.
With over 15 years of proven results, we’ve expanded across industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, consumer products, and quick service restaurants. We are honored to be recognized as a three-time winner of Consulting Magazine’s Best Boutique Firms to Work For, and previously recognized as a “Best Place to Work” in Southern California and one of INC.’s 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.
About the Role: We are seeking an Enterprise Project Manager to spearhead a high-visibility, full-scale Workday HCM implementation for a major industrial client. This isn't just a system rollout; it is a massive digital transformation impacting over 10,000 employees across corporate, warehouse, and manufacturing environments.

What You'll Do:

• Drive the end-to-end enterprise Workday HCM implementation, ensuring the program stays within scope, timeline, and budget.
• Develop and manage the integrated project plan, milestones, and critical dependencies across the project lifescycle
• Establish and lead the project governance structure, facilitating steering committee engagement and high-level executive reporting.
• Coordinate seamlessly across HR, IT, Operations, and executive leadership to ensure cross-functional alignment.
• Oversee vendor and system integrator relationships while proactively managing risks, issues, and change control.
• Lead the large-scale testing strategy, including System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Partner with business units to ensure organizational readiness, adoption, and smooth change management throughout the go-live.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven experience leading at least one full, enterprise-wide Workday HCM implementation.
• Deep understanding of HR system architecture, business process transformation, and the Workday deployment lifecycle.
• 7+ years of project management experience, specifically within enterprise organizations
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate complex technical milestones to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success managing stakeholders across multiple business units in highly matrixed environments.
• Experience managing challenging testing and integration environments, ideally within manufacturing or industrial sectors.
• A self-driven, outcome-oriented mindset with the ability to lead initiatives from strategy through execution.
• PMP or equivalent certification is preferred.