Senior Manager, HR Technology Workday Compensation

The Senior Manager, HR Technology (Workday Compensation) is part of the HR Technology team and requires deep technical expertise in the Workday Compensation / Advanced Compensation module. This role will serve as the primary HR Technology partner to the HR Compensation team, driving scalable solutions, managing annual compensation events and ensuring configuration aligns with business needs. This will be a Hybrid role, based out of Durham, NC(RTP).

The successful candidate will be a strategic and hands-on subject matter expert (SME) on all things Workday Compensation & Advanced Compensation and will possess leadership capabilities to manage a team of Analysts and/or Solutions Managers. The overall objective of this role is to lead the annual compensation cycles and manage the end-to-end workday configuration for compensation modules. The Sr. Manager, HR Technology (Workday Compensation) will analyze and identify opportunities for automation, simplification, and improved user experience.

This role will balance run and maintain responsibilities with continuous improvement and innovation initiatives in support of Labcorp's People Strategy. This SME Leader will support the existing build, drive implementation of enhancements, and deliver net new functionality by understanding user needs, translating those into business and functional requirements, and building streamlined and effective processes supporting technical design, testing and deployment to provide scalable solutions and a best-in-class user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate technical expertise and understanding of functional HR processes to act as primary authority and owner for Workday configuration within your defined area(s) of responsibility including, defining and shaping the business process architecture.
• Lead the administration and optimization of Workday, with a focus on compensation / advanced compensation modules.
• Lead the design, testing, and execution of annual compensation planning cycles, including merit, bonus and equity.
• Manage end-to-end Workday configuration for compensation modules (grades, plans, guidelines, eligibility rules, reports, etc.).
• Analyze system and business processes to identify opportunities for automation, simplification, and improved user experience.
• Drive Workday configuration, governance, and enhancements, ensuring alignment with business needs.
• Facilitate discussions to understand business and information needs of HR, Compensation, Leadership, and others to make recommendations about how the Workday system can best meet those needs. Identify solutions and transform them into an executable roadmap and backlog, managing and promoting the changes through the appropriate Agile and change processes to drive functionality and optimization of Workday.
• Coordinate with functional and technical staff, lead and/or support system-related projects and initiatives (such as new releases/updates, adoption and implementation of new functionality and business process
• Balance competing requests and priorities while being a champion of continuous improvement and change to develop scalable solutions between Workday and other business systems.
• Manage team case load via ServiceNow, ensuring service delivery agreements and Customer Satisfaction levels are met. Use data to report delivery metrics and help tell the 'HR Technology story at Labcorp'.
• Troubleshoot upper-tier system issues, defect resolution, maintaining system structure data, assisting with ad-hoc reporting requests, and support cyclical related processes led by other Workday configuration teams.
• Document requirements of product design and technical specifications of the landscape to facilitate maintenance.
• Help review communication and training materials to ensure technical accuracy, assist where necessary to develop communication and training materials in support of system navigation and changes.
• Ensure that the system remains compliant with relevant data protection and security regulations, such as GDPR or CPRA, follow all SOX controls, and implement best practices in data management.
• Lead and attract top talent, motivate, assess, and manage performance to achieve the highest and best use of talent. Create an environment which encourages high performance standards by upskilling, developing, and engaging your team members.
• Provide day-to-day thought leadership and act as advisor or coach to the broader HR Technology Workday team and others to mentor with knowledge sharing and providing guidance that helps them to learn new skills and functional areas.

• Hands-on Workday experience developing and supporting end-to-end configuration through annual compensation cycles.
• Experience in all phases of the technology implementation lifecycle (requirements gathering, design, build, testing, and launch)
• Experience in leading a design session, reviewing, and assisting in the creation of project deliverables
• Have a delivery-focused mindset, high energy and drive and the ability to achieve results through others
• Excellent communication and organizational skills - able to translate between technical and business groups, bring forward a vision or opinion
• Demonstrated attention to detail and accuracy with ability to design and develop solutions to meet business needs creatively
• Comfort with leading multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, prioritize decisions and tasks effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a business-related field or equivalent HRIS / CompSci experience
• 5+ years of experience supporting Workday with 4+ years executing functional configuration in Workday Compensation & Advanced Compensation, including leading at least 2 full compensation cycles.
• Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into system configuration and workflows.
• Experience partnering with compensation and total rewards teams on merit, bonus, and equity planning
• Experience managing a technical team.
• Workday Pro Certification preferred