*This is a FTE position for 12 months with a annual salary.
Join a fast-moving HR Systems function on a clear 2026 Workday roadmap. You will lead delivery across key Workday enhancements and a major Talent Management rollout, working closely with senior HR stakeholders and a Canada-based delivery team.
What you will deliver in 2026
Join a fast-moving HR Systems function on a clear 2026 Workday roadmap. You will lead delivery across key Workday enhancements and a major Talent Management rollout, working closely with senior HR stakeholders and a Canada-based delivery team.
What you will deliver in 2026
- Recruitment enhancements
- Advanced Compensation enhancements
- Talent Management new functionality (major project)
- Support planning around ongoing acquisition activity (2 to 3 acquisitions per year), ensuring delivery remains stable and reliable
- Own end-to-end project delivery for the 2026 Workday roadmap (plan, scope, governance, delivery, and adoption)
- Manage delivery partners and coordinate day-to-day activity across UK and Canada time zones
- Drive clarity where business processes clash, stabilising ways of working and improving reliability
- Run project governance including RAID, status reporting, steering updates, and timeline management
- Translate technical detail into clear, day-to-day language for senior stakeholders
- Align stakeholders across HR, HR Systems, and the wider business to keep delivery moving
- Proven Workday Project Manager experience delivering Workday change (enhancements and/or new functionality)
- Strong stakeholder management, including senior HR leaders
- Confident working with implementation partners and distributed teams (UK and Canada)
- Excellent communication - able to simplify technical topics and drive decisions
- Strong delivery discipline across scope, budget, timeline, risks, and dependencies
- Experience delivering Workday Talent Management and/or Advanced Compensation and/or Recruitment
- Experience supporting Workday in an acquisition-heavy environment
- Background delivering stabilisation and process improvement in a live Workday landscape
- Visible, business-critical delivery in 2026 with clear outcomes
- A chance to shape a growing HR Systems function and ways of working
- High impact, broad stakeholder exposure, and meaningful Workday roadmap ownership
