Associate Project Manager Lead

About the role

This contractor will support Talent Management initiatives, managing one or more workstreams depending on business needs. The role requires a highly organized, detail-oriented professional who can operate effectively in a fast-paced environment and seamlessly transition between functional areas. The successful candidate will be able to quickly come up to speed, establish key stakeholder relationships, and drive project execution.

Serves as the business lead for a Workday workstream, ensuring successful delivery, stakeholder alignment, organizational readiness, and adoption while providing leadership visibility into progress, risks, decisions, and overall workstream health.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and manage project management deliverables and artifacts, including:
  • project plans
  • schedules
  • status reports
  • project metrics
  • resource tracking
• Oversee workstream delivery from planning through execution.
• Ensure all activities and deliverables are progressing according to the approved timeline.
• Facilitate status tracking and reporting for the workstream and roll updates into program-level reporting.
• Proactively identify and resolve issues impacting delivery.
• Escalate risks and issues coming from the workstream as needed.
• Support readiness, testing, and go-live planning activities.
• Present status updates during team forums and larger program meetings, including broad audience calls.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification preferred
• PMI-based project delivery training/certification is a plus

Required Skills

• Experience with Workday implementations, especially in:
  • HCM
  • Talent Management
• MS Project: Intermediate to Advanced proficiency required.
• Strong MS Office skills, particularly:
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • Word
• Experience with Agile project delivery required.

Soft Skills

• Experience managing large, complex projects and/or transformational programs.
• Proven ability to manage integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Strong risk, issue, action, and decision management experience.
• Experience with governance, executive reporting, and stakeholder communications.
• Ability to proactively identify delivery risks and drive mitigation actions.

Pay

$53.00 – $56.00 hourly on W2.

Schedule

Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM EST (regardless of candidate’s time zone). No overtime.