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Cognizant · 6 hours ago

Workday HCM, Consulting Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$81K/yr - $130K/yr

5+ years exp

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Consultant with strong experience in Workday Talent, Performance, and Extend. This highly consultative role involves guiding clients through strategic HR transformations, focusing on talent optimization and performance enablement while leveraging Workday Extend for innovative solutions.

ConsultingIndustrial AutomationInformation TechnologySoftwareSoftware Engineering

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead Performance Management Initiatives: Manage cyclical processes for Promotions, Ratings, and Goal Setting across Mid-Year and Year-End cycles. Oversee applications including Promotions App (Workday Extend), Ratings Dashboard, AI Goals Coach, and Forward Looking Slate (FLS)

Consultative Program Leadership: Drive stakeholder meetings with Centers of Excellence and PMO; influence decisions and manage expectations. Outline project plans, manage “Run of Show” activities, and ensure timely updates to leadership. Maintain critical data repositories (job mapping, notifications, security matrices)

Product Management & Delivery: Gather and document new requirements and enhancements each cycle; lead discovery sessions. Create and maintain Jira stories and backlog items; ensure prioritization alignment with PM and development teams. Collaborate with UX designers to validate requirements against design standards. Develop testing strategies, scripts, and lead end-to-end and UAT testing sessions; track execution and manage bug resolution. Support cutover activities, sign-offs, and participate in retrospectives

Innovation & Advisory: Advise on best practices for talent management, goal setting, and performance frameworks. Leverage Workday Extend to design scalable solutions that enhance employee experience. Contribute to thought leadership and practice development initiatives within Cognizant Consulting

Contributes to innovative business solutions that anticipate client challenges

Supports the business development activities of senior-level leaders (e.g., proposals, commercial presentations, business analysis)

Extracts and develops reusable consultative strategies and solutioning approaches in support of business development and expansion activities

Contributes to the development and maintenance of knowledge repositories (e.g., case studies, center of excellence information, accelerators, tools)

Qualification

Workday HCMTalent ManagementPerformance ManagementWorkday ExtendHR ConsultingStakeholder ManagementChange ManagementOrganizational DesignExecutive PresenceConsultative MindsetCommunication SkillsFacilitation SkillsRelationship Building