Principal Managing Partner - Industry Capabilities

Workday Workday · Enterprise · New York, NY +6 · Remote

This role is for a Principal Managing Partner at Workday, focusing on customer success for their AI platform that manages people, money, and agents. The role involves managing executive relationships, ensuring successful deployment and adoption of Workday solutions, identifying upsell opportunities, and collaborating with internal sales, consulting, and product teams. Success is measured by customer satisfaction, retention, and growth. The role requires extensive experience in deploying large Cloud SaaS ERP solutions and managing C-level relationships, with a focus on customer value realization and strategic alignment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with Account Executives and Service Executives to help position and sell or upsell Workday product, deployment, and postproduction services, into your customer base and ensure they’re getting maximum value from the product.
  2. Have overall responsibility for the successful deployment of the Workday solution, driving adoption, guiding customers in the implementation of new features and products and selling additional services to support their strategy
  3. Participate in sales cycles to help support implementation related activities for prospects that will become part of their portfolio
  4. Drive customer self-sufficiency by ensuring customers understand how to engage with the Workday services organization
  5. Partner with workmates to position additional value available through in-subscription adoption, additional subscription products, or activation of offerings from our platform ecosystem

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years’ experience deploying large, sophisticated Cloud SaaS ERP (HCM & Fins) solutions at a project and program manager level within the any of the following: Healthcare, Diversified Industries, State, Local, Federal Government, and FSI arenas
  • 2+ years direct experience with a cloud-native HR or Finance software (such as Workday, SuccessFactors, NetSuite, or a similar product) as an implementation leader, business function owner, hands-on configuration resource, or workmate
  • 8+ years of developing and maintaining C-level relationships resulting in successful partnerships and strategic alignment.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple customers’ demands balancing customer satisfaction with revenue and profitability targets
  • Proven ability to develop and implement effective account strategies focused on building strong client relationships, identifying growth opportunities, and driving customer retention and revenue, is essential.
  • Exceptional relationship management skills are crucial, with a focus on building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, partners, and colleagues to foster collaboration, loyalty, and a positive work environment.

Nice to have

  • Ability to empower and lead a matrixed team of individuals at multiple levels within an organization
  • Have a dedication to continuous improvement in the way we serve our customers
  • Strong customer insights skills, with the ability to analyze customer data, identify trends, and provide actionable recommendations to improve customer satisfaction and inform business strategies, are highly valued.

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years’ experience deploying large, sophisticated Cloud SaaS ERP (HCM & Fins) solutions at a project and program manager level
  • 8+ years of developing and maintaining C-level relationships resulting in successful partnerships and strategic alignment.