Lead design and delivery of Workday Recruiting implementations as a senior functional advisor. Drive workshops, solution design, configuration oversight, testing, deployment, and post-go-live transitions. Mentor consultants, support pre-sales and business development, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to practice development and Workday best practices.
The Workday Recruiting Senior Principal Consultant is a senior functional leader responsible for driving the design, delivery, and overall success of Workday Recruiting implementations. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients and project teams, this individual provides strategic guidance on talent acquisition processes while ensuring solutions align with business objectives and Workday leading practices.
The Senior Principal Consultant combines deep Workday Recruiting expertise with delivery leadership, pre-sales support, and people development responsibilities. They lead complex solution discussions, guide implementation teams, support business development activities, and play a key role in growing the Workday practice through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
Responsibilities- Serve as a senior Workday Recruiting subject matter expert, providing guidance on talent acquisition strategy, recruiting operations, and Workday best practices.
- Lead client workshops, discovery sessions, and design discussions to define scalable Workday Recruiting solutions aligned to business requirements.
- Own solution design and provide oversight across configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live transition activities.
- Act as the functional lead for medium to large Workday Recruiting implementations, managing key solution decisions, risks, and dependencies.
- Provide strategic guidance on recruiting processes, candidate experience, job requisitions, interview management, offer processes, career sites, and hiring workflows.
- Collaborate with HCM, Talent, Learning, Security, Reporting, Integrations, Change Management, and Project Management teams to ensure successful delivery.
- Support testing, data conversion, cutover, and deployment activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Mentor and coach consultants and senior consultants, providing quality reviews and functional leadership.
- Support business development activities including solutioning, estimations, proposals, demonstrations, and customer presentations.
- Contribute to practice development through methodology improvements, internal training, asset creation, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Maintain expertise in Workday Recruiting functionality, talent acquisition trends, and product innovations.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Active Workday Recruiting Certification required.
- Additional Workday certifications in HCM, Talent, or Learning are desirable.
- 5+ years of Workday implementation experience, including multiple end-to-end Workday deployments.
- Proven experience leading Workday Recruiting workstreams on medium to large implementations.
- Deep functional expertise in talent acquisition processes, recruiting operations, candidate lifecycle management, interview management, offer management, and recruiting best practices.
- Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, and deployment.
- Experience supporting pre-sales activities, including estimations, proposals, and solution presentations.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, and consulting skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including engagement with executive-level stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced consulting environment.
- Eligible for SC Clearance - you must have been a UK resident for the last five years and be legally entitled to work in the UK.
- Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site as needed.
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