Manager, People Systems (Workday Talent Management & Total Rewards)

Job Description

We are on the lookout for a Manager, People Systems (Workday Talent Management & Total Rewards)to join the People Systems team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

As the Manager of People Systems, you won’t just be managing a backlog; you’ll be the architect of our Talent and Total Rewards ecosystem. You will lead a high-performing team of "Workday Wizards" to build seamless, scalable, and automated experiences. We are looking for a leader who is comfortable in the weeds of configuration one hour and presenting a forward-looking AI roadmap to Brand CHROs the next.

• Strategic Ownership: Lead the end-to-end configuration and strategy for Workday Talent Management, Compensation, and Advanced Compensation.

• Team Leadership: Mentor and lead a team of 4 expert Individual Contributors. You’ll guide their technical growth while ensuring the team delivers at pace. You will be responsible for instilling a culture of continuous improvement, constantly refining configurations to ensure peak system performance, uncompromising data quality, and a superior end-user experience.

• Rapid Prototyping & Innovation: Don’t just talk about it—build it. You’ll create POCs and MVPs to demo "the art of the possible" for Talent and Total Rewards process flows.

• AI Champion: Stay ahead of the curve by proactively demoing and championing the rollout of native Workday AI features. Beyond the platform, you will act as a subject matter expert who brings external market best practices and emerging HR tech trends into our configuration standards, ensuring our ecosystem is modern, competitive, and future-proof.

• Stakeholder Partnership: Work shoulder-to-shoulder with Senior Stakeholders (including Brand CHROs) and Product Managers to translate business needs into technical reality.

• Process Harmonization: Act as a forcing function for simplicity. You will push for global harmonization of processes to reduce complexity and technical debt.

• Hands-on Excellence: While this is a leadership role, you aren’t afraid to get "hands-on" with complex calculated fields, performance templates, and calibration configurations when the situation demands it.

• Roadmap Planning: Own the long-term roadmap. You’ll move the team from reactive tickets to forward-looking, proactive system evolution.

• Navigating Ambiguity: Successfully cut through the noise and speak up as a devil’s advocate to ensure the best outcomes for the platform and the business.

Qualifications

• Workday Mastery: 8+ years of deep configuration experience. You know the platform's constraints and its hidden gems. 4+ Years of leadership experience

• Consulting DNA: Prior experience in Onsite Consulting. You know how to manage clients, navigate ambiguity, and "speak the business.

• Technical Breadth: Expert-level knowledge of Talent, Performance, Compensation, and Advanced Comp modules in Workday. Furthermore knowledge of other HR IS tools.

• The "Getting it Done" Mindset: You have a bias for action. You cut through noise, challenge the status quo, and play the devil’s advocate when necessary to ensure the best outcome.

• Communication: The ability to explain complex technical architecture to non-technical executives with clarity and confidence.

Additional Information

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week

• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service

• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.

• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan

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Ready to join our team? If you’re excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

 

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