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About the Role

Seeking an experienced Workday Programme Director to provide client-side leadership for a complex global Workday implementation. This role focuses on owning a live transformation programme, managing system integrators, establishing governance, and driving delivery momentum across multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Take overall client-side accountability for successful programme delivery.
• Drive all aspects of programme execution from mobilisation through deployment and stabilisation.
• Establish and maintain realistic delivery plans, milestones and dependencies.
• Ensure workstreams remain aligned to programme objectives.
• Act as the primary client-side counterpart to Deloitte and other delivery partners.
• Hold vendors and system integrators accountable for delivery commitments.
• Challenge scope, timelines, assumptions and resource plans where required.
• Escalate and resolve delivery issues quickly and effectively.
• Establish and lead Steering Committees, Programme Boards and governance forums.
• Drive risk, issue, decision and dependency management.
• Provide concise executive reporting focused on key decisions and delivery outcomes.
• Engage effectively with C-suite stakeholders across HR, Technology and Operations.
• Own programme RAID logs, governance frameworks and reporting mechanisms.
• Maintain focus on critical-path activities and immediate delivery priorities.
• Ensure programme readiness across design, build, testing, deployment and transition.
• Drive corrective action when delivery milestones are at risk.
• Oversee programme budgets, forecasts and resource plans.
• Track benefits realisation and programme value.
• Manage commercial discussions with delivery partners where required.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading large-scale Workday programmes as the accountable Programme Director or Client-Side Programme Lead.
• Proven track record delivering complex global HR transformation programmes involving multiple workstreams, geographies and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of Workday HCM and broader HR transformation journeys.
• Extensive experience managing large system integrators, consulting partners and third-party delivery organisations.
• Demonstrable experience establishing and running programme governance at Executive Committee, Steering Committee or Board level.
• Strong programme management capability, including ownership of plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID management and executive reporting.
• Experience managing programme budgets, forecasts, resource plans and financial controls.
• Proven ability to hold suppliers, workstream leads and delivery teams accountable for outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience rescuing, stabilising or re-planning programmes that are at risk.
• Ability to operate independently with minimal direction in complex environments.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating at Executive Committee and C-suite level.
• Brings gravitas and credibility when working with senior executives.
• Leads through action rather than facilitation.
• Takes ownership and drives activity without waiting for instruction.
• Creates structure, pace and accountability in complex programmes.
• Can challenge delivery partners and senior stakeholders constructively.
• Thinks several steps ahead and anticipates issues before they materialise.
• Produces recommendations and solutions, not simply updates and observations.
• Can rapidly determine priorities in ambiguous programme environments.
• Is comfortable making informed decisions and course corrections before issues become critical.
• Has a reputation for creating momentum, accountability and delivery focus across complex transformation programmes.
• Thrives in high-profile, high-visibility delivery environments.

Skills

• Workday HCM
• HR transformation
• Programme management
• Risk management
• Issue management
• Decision management
• Dependency management
• Executive reporting
• Stakeholder management
• Financial management
• Commercial management
• Vendor management
• System integrator management
• Global implementation
• Client-side leadership

Location

• London (City)

Work Type

• Hybrid
• 2-3 days per week on site

Experience Level

• Senior Programme Leader
• Extensive experience

About the Company

• Vantage Point Global is a fully committed inclusive employer.
• We are passionate about attracting diverse talent, and welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.

Equal Opportunity

• Vantage Point Global is a fully committed inclusive employer.
• We are passionate about attracting diverse talent, and welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.