Workday HRIS Product Lead

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Focus on WD is seeking a skilled Workday HRIS Product Lead to join a newly formed team in a market leading end‑user soon to go live with multiple modules across the HCM Product Suite.

Job Details

Job Title: Workday HRIS Product Lead

Location: Remote working with occasional milestone travel

Salary: £100,000 – £130,000 per annum dependent on experience

Employment Type: Full‑Time Permanent

Right to work: Candidates must be in the UK with right to work. No sponsorship available.

About the Role

You will be joining an organisation heavily investing in Workday, soon to go live at the end of Q1/Start of Q2 next year. This role is perfect for an individual who is looking to make an impact and own the long‑term roadmap, people and product investment and direction of Workday within the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Taking charge of the strategic direction for the Workday HCM Product suite, with full roadmap management responsibilities.
• Ensuring alignment with the long‑term business strategy including wider enterprise architecture.
• Acting as the product champion for the business, ensuring adoption and continual improvement plans are in place covering release management, governance and platform optimisation.
• Taking ownership of the overall Workday architecture across multiple modules.
• Managing solution architecture across the business.
• Working closely with 3rd‑party SI partners and AMS providers to ensure services and solutions are fit for purpose.
• Taking ownership of product updates, tenant services, feature deployments and technical issue resolution.
• Working closely with key business areas across HR and IT to provide guidance and transfer product knowledge in line with the long‑term company strategy.

Required Skills & Experience

• 3‑5 years experience as a Workday HRIS Lead, Product Manager or Platform Manager, ideally having led one enterprise‑level Workday implementation from go‑live to production and beyond.
• Extensive experience and deep knowledge of Workday systems architecture within the HCM Product suite.
• Proven experience managing SI partner relationships.
• Excellent communication capabilities at all levels with strong stakeholder and people‑management skills.
• Ideally experience working in large, multi‑layered organisations with high complexity.

About Focus On WD

• As a business we wholly and totally concentrate on recruitment for the Workday ecosystem, which means we know our area inside & out. Our knowledge of the Workday ecosystem separates us from the rest and drives us forward.
• Website: https://focuscloud.org/