Workday Functional Lead: Extend

Entity:

People, Culture Communications

Job Family Group:

HR Group

Job Description:

At bp, our people are our most valuable asset. The People, Culture Communications (PCC) function fosters a diverse, inclusive culture where everybody can thrive. As we transition from an oil company to an integrated energy company, PCC is embarking on a major transformation to be more competitive, responsive, and customer-focused.

We’re investing in key locations such as India, Hungary, Malaysia, and Brazil, offering an exciting but challenging opportunity to shape a fast-moving PCC function, forming teams and structures and driving continuous improvement.

We’re looking for driven, ambitious enthusiasts who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about people. If you're ready to build something transformative, this is the place for you.

The purpose of the Solution Lead (SL) for Workday is to own and drive a portion of the People Culture (PCC) Workday solution, encompassing both process and technology, ensuring that we deliver a great and efficient service for our people. The SL will build strong partnerships across PCC – with the relevant centre(s) of expertise, integrators, services teams and within the solutions teams. The SL will apply their technical expertise (process and technology) to deliver stable operations alongside projects and innovation.
To innovate and deliver HR services and solutions globally, ensuring compliance and consistency across Business Technology Hubs, and driving continuous improvement and efficiency.

What you will do:
• Managing a part of the PCC solution - maintaining the health and operational integrity of your solutions / products, working with others to deliver stable operations
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and business needs, for example data privacy and digital security requirements
• Working closely with colleagues to ensure solutions / products co-exist seamlessly across PCC
• Managing a prioritised backlog of changes, covering maintenance, fixes (non-urgent) and improvements, with a focus on implementation of ongoing activities
• Developing and implementing plans for the design, configuration, testing, and deployment of changes for your part of the PCC solution
• Planning and implementing substantial aspects of change projects, including acting as product owner, delivering through others, delivering to time, cost and quality, managing risks – organize and implement projects, under limited supervision, by facilitating design sessions, leading configuration, coordinating testing, and completing cutover
• Develop positive working relationships with numerous bp stakeholders – with the relevant centre(s) of expertise, integrators, services teams, within the solutions teams, and with teams outside PCC such as colleagues in technology
• Building external relations including vendor management
• Truly understanding the business requirements and working to resolve problems within your area, challenging the status quo and making proposals to deliver against objectives – actively elicit, analyse and document business and functional requirements through requirements workshops, interviews or meeting sessions with Project Sponsors, SMEs and other Collaborators to chip in to the resolution of technical, process, and business issues related to your part of the PCC solution
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Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

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