Workday Product Owner

Workday Product Owner

Job Description

You were made to do this work: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters.

Here, you’ll work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development while you help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.  It starts with YOU. 

In this role, you will:


* The HR Digital Technologies team is focused on creating a world-class employee experience that leverages digital enablers to drive business value for the K-C organization.  We are a group focused on solving the problems of today and opportunities of the future through applied intelligence, process simplification, global standardization, and self-solve enabled solutions.  We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual to join our team as a Workday HCM Analyst and Product Owner.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing the Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) system and serving as the product owner for work related to the core HR area.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful optimization and configuration of Workday HCM, along with other core HR technology.

This role is a mix of maintaining the Core HR product roadmap and stakeholder engagement, as well as hands on aspects of configuration within Workday HCM.


* Serve as the product owner for Workday HCM including Core HR, Compensation, Talent and Security.


* Manage the configuration, maintenance, and support of the Workday HCM system.


* Partner with key HR stakeholders to maintain a backlog, prioritize work, design solutions and define Ways of Working that meet the business needs.


* Understand and translate business needs to technical requirements and vice versa.


* Configure Workday HCM to meet business requirements, including business process workflows, tenant settings, and custom reports.


* As the subject matter expert in Workday HCM and core employee data, provide guidance and hands-on technical support for escalated Workday-related issues, troubleshooting and resolving problems in partnership with the managed services support team in a timely manner.


* Stay current with Workday releases and new features, recommending opportunities for improvement and innovation.


* Serve as the Workday Release Manager, coordinating with HR, DTS and business stakeholders ensuring smooth deployment of system updates to align releases with business objectives and through bi-annual releases and hotfixes.


* Collaborate across other product owners/product teams to understand planned activities and potential impacts on the product and/or team’s capacity.


* Partner on technology roadmap tied to business strategy.


* Create clear and comprehensive...