Workday Implementation Leader, Global Talent Acquisition

Work Mode: Hybrid

Location: Hybrid at Kohler, WI

Opportunity

Global lead for Workday Talent Acquisition workstream, familiar with Kohler's current business processes and systems and/or Workday’s leading practices for talent acquisition. Empowered to design the vision for standardizing and streamlining for the future. Responsible for communicating the global functional requirements to be configured in Workday and leading the Talent Acquisition Workstream team.

As a Workday Workstream Lead with a primary focus on the Recruiting module, you will be responsible for identifying, designing, documenting, and testing talent acquisition solutions.

Candidate must have excellent working domain knowledge on talent acquisition processes and coupled with project management experience. This role will partner with stakeholders across Kohler Co. to understand business needs, define requirements, test development, and deploy solutions as part of the Workday and HR Digital Experience teams.

Specific Responsibilities

• Functional ownership of the Recruiting module of Workday, responsible for maximizing the value of the module and ensuring the module delivers customer expectations in line with overall business strategy and desired outcomes.

• Partner with global stakeholders to understand pain points, prioritize requirements and identify process and efficiency improvement opportunities leveraging Workday functionality.

• Communication of workstream updates and progress to platform and program leaders including overall workstream status, risks, decisions, and impacts.

• Delivery of an exceptional associate and manager experience with critical inputs to the training, communication, and change management support needed for successful adoption.

• Effective troubleshooting and/or escalation of roadblocks impeding workstream progress and risks causing potential impact to workstream or program success.

• Representation as the “voice of the associate”, identifying opportunities to optimize the user experience and driving teams to configuration and functionality decisions that address them.

• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and automation within HR functions, leveraging the capabilities of Workday, ServiceNow, and other available technology platforms

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university

• Willing to travel 10%-20%

• 4+ years of experience of project management experience, ideally with an emphasis in cross-functional and global/cross-cultural projects

• 4+ years of experience in a Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partner, HR Operations and/or HR Technology role in a global organization

• Experience with end-to-end talent acquisition processes and service delivery.

• Ability to assess organizational needs/desires, balance them with leading practice and out of the box functionality, and design a future state in partnership with stakeholders that aligns with leading practice and guiding principles.

• Strong initiative, ownership and follow through on tasks; drives decisions and is highly results oriented.

• Outstanding leadership skills with the ability to influence without authority, providing direction, mentoring and guidance to peers while motivating the team toward a common objective.

• Transformational thinker with a growth mindset and a steady eye on continuous improvement and organizational advancement

• Collaborative and consultative mindset, able to guide others in identifying business solutions

• Prior HCM implementation experience, preferably Workday, highly preferred.

• Experience leading projects/workstreams to deliver system implementations in large, global, matrixed organizations highly preferred.

• Experience with other HR-related software and tools (including Service Now) highly preferred.

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Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

The salary range for this position is $88,000 - $111,150. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, their education, and the work location. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision & 401k.

Why Choose Kohler?

We empower each associate to #BecomeMoreAtKohler with a competitive total rewards package to support your health and wellbeing, access to career growth and development opportunities, a diverse and inclusive workplace, and a strong culture of innovation. With more than 30,000 bold leaders across the globe, we’re driving meaningful change in our mission to help people live gracious, healthy, and sustainable lives.

About Us

It is Kohler’s policy to recruit, hire, and promote qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran. If, as an individual with a disability, you need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact kohlerjobs@kohler.com. Kohler Co. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.