Workday Organizational Change Management Consultant

Job Details

Hours: Full-time (30-35 hours a week)
Location: Mainly remote with 25% travel to client site in Baltimore.
Headquarters: Baltimore, MD 21205
Duration: 24 month contract

Responsibilities

• Lead the Organizational Change Management workstream throughout the entire Workday implementation lifecycle.
• Develop and execute the overall change management strategy and roadmap.
• Create and maintain a comprehensive Change and Communications Playbook.
• Partner with executive leadership, department leaders, and project stakeholders to understand organizational impacts and business challenges.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and facilitate discovery sessions across functional departments.
• Perform change readiness assessments and identify organizational risks.
• Create mitigation strategies and recommendations to address adoption risks and resistance to change.
• Create executive presentations, communication plans, and organizational messaging.
• Participate in project meetings to proactively identify potential organizational challenges and provide strategic guidance.
• Establish governance processes surrounding organizational readiness and change adoption.
• Collaborate closely with the Workday implementation partner and internal project leadership.
• Support training strategy and user adoption initiatives.
• Provide ongoing guidance through testing, deployment, go live, and hypercare

Must Have Requirements

• Must have led 2 full-cycle WD Implementations within the Healthcare sector
• Experience supporting Workday HCM implementations. Experience with Workday Financials is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success developing enterprise communication strategies and stakeholder engagement plans.
• Experience conducting organizational impact analyses and change readiness assessments.
• Strong business analysis and stakeholder interviewing skills.
• Ability to translate business challenges into actionable change management strategies.

Preferences

• Experience leading Organizational Change Management for large healthcare organizations.
• Experience supporting organizations through digital transformation initiatives.
• Familiarity with Prosci, ADKAR, or other formal change management methodologies.
• Workday implementation consulting experience with a Workday Services partner or certified Workday consultancy.