HR Product Owner – Workday
Location: Warsaw, POL / Chennai, IND / Guadalajara, MEX

Competitive salary & benefits package

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, digital HR transformation? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact and improve employee experience across our HR business processes in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!
 

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

So if you thrive on intellectually stimulating work where you can apply expertise and develop new skills, then this is the place for you.
 

Job description summary:

The Workday product owner will be accountable for the overall ownership of the Workday product strategy, vision, roadmap and value creation. The role will work closely with our GPO community and our supporting HR IT organisation, to deliver digital HR transformation and improved employee experience across our HR business processes.
 

The Workday product owner will continuously monitor and deliver improvements to the digital experience across the business processes and take ownership for monitoring the value realisation and reviewing the value against competitor products.
 

Key accountabilities

• Create and take ownership for our Workday strategy to ensure product value realization, through consultation with the GPOs, vendor product development and digital project delivery.   

• Serve as a strong consultative partner to the global process owners, to holistically take responsibility for the employee experience in the HCM product and continuously review and improve process performance and service delivery

• Take ownership for the user experience and make changes where necessary, fully understanding the global view of the product and ensure all users across all geographies have an excellent product experience

• Working closely with the Adoption Lead and GPOs, monitor and drive faster adoption and utilisation of deployed business processes globally

• Work with the ServiceNow product owner and other platform owners to ensure a flawless experience for employees across our core HR platforms

• Own the development of cross-functional process/employee journey development

• Develop and maintain the HR technology process landscape document to ensure that HR & HRIT understand where duplication of technology exists and influence the HCM vendor to deliver appropriate functionality that supports our business processes

• Participate in all product/platform related project activities

• Play a meaningful role in the HR technology governance process and represent the HCM platform in this forum, ensuring appropriate preparation for monthly and our bi-annual CoE meetings

• Ensure configuration is reviewed regularly, to delivery product value realisation and process efficiency across all key business processes

• Take the lead on any significant feature release, partnering with the GPO to review the appropriateness of the feature in the business process landscape

• Facilitate all product meetings with the Workday account lead, including annual & quarterly business reviews and monthly catch ups
   

Skills & experience

The successful candidate will be an independent self-starter who is passionate about people and digital culture.

• Experience related to the implementation and management of enterprise HCM applications/platforms

• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to build effective relationships and working collaboratively with our global process owners and business partners

• Experience of managing multiple projects/programmes in a large global organisation

• Project planning, management, risk monitoring and mitigation

• Ability to understand business priorities and align technology opportunities

• Ability to prioritize workload and provide timely follow-up and resolution

• Ability to motivate and set the direction for a (not direct report) team

• Experience of working in a complex, global matrix organisation
   

Nice to have:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in HR information system management

• Experience of Workday specifically

• Solid understanding of other HR Systems

• Knowledge of Agile methodology of experience working in an Agile way

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. We have a broad culture that champions diversity and collaboration and are committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

So, what’s next?

Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it’s yours.

Where can I find out more?

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Advert open date: 09/06/2021

Advert closing date: 23/06/2021

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.