Senior Manager, HRIS - Workday

About the role

Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. Our talented people are central to the future of Edwards Lifesciences, which is why our Human Resources teams help design, guide, and deliver inspiring experiences for our people. With a fundamental understanding of how to build a supportive community and organizational capability, you’ll deliver solutions to attract and retain talent. Your work will enable our teams to thrive as they help patients live healthier and more productive lives.

The Senior Manager will provide strategic leadership and oversight of HR technology initiatives with an emphasis on Workday and associated HR systems. We are seeking a hands-on Workday configuration authority who will act as a strategic partner to the Director, HRIS, while helping shape and scale our broader HR technology ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Workday Configuration & Solution Design: Serve as a hands-on expert across Workday modules (Core HCM, Talent, Comp, Integrations), lead end-to-end design and configuration, balancing scalability, usability, and compliance
• Strategic Partnership and Influence: Act as a trusted advisor to HR, COEs, IT, Finance, and business leaders, translate ambiguous business requirements into clear solution options with trade-offs
• Governance and operating Model: Own and evolve demand intake, prioritization, and decision frameworks, drive global consistency while allowing for business nuance where needed
• Delivery and Excellence with Execution: Lead complex Workday initiatives from design through deployment, reduce rework through strong upfront design and stakeholder alignment
• Data Reporting and Insights: Leverage data to support decision-making and process improvements, build or guide development of advanced reports and dashboards

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline and a minimum of 15 years of HRIS/HR technology experience, or a master’s degree with at least 12 years of experience
• Extensive hands-on expertise with Workday configuration and system integrations
• Demonstrated success in project management
• Experience designing complex, cross-module Workday solutions
• Strong understanding of integrations, security, business processes, and data structures
• Proven ability to operate in global, matrixed environments

Qualifications

• Workday certifications (HCM, Compensation, Talent and/or Integrations strongly preferred)
• Experience with Workday integrations (e.g., Studio, EIB, APIs)
• Familiarity with reporting tools, SQL, or advanced analytics concepts
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building abilities, including negotiation and influencing skills
• Proven capacity to manage multiple priorities within a dynamic environment
• Proven expertise in both Microsoft Office Suite, including advanced Excel and HRIS systems

Benefits

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

Pay

For California, the base pay range for this position is $139,000 - $196,000 (highly experienced). The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).

Schedule

This role is available while the position is posted on our Careers website.