Staff Project Manager - Workday

GE Aerospace is a leading company in the aerospace industry, seeking a Staff Project Manager to lead planning and delivery of Workday projects. The role involves managing scope, schedule, budget, risks, and change for various HR initiatives, ensuring secure and compliant execution while driving adoption and data quality.

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain project charters, business cases, scope, WBS, resource plans, budgets, and RAID logs
• Set stage gates and governance cadence aligning with HR COEs, Regional HR, Cybersecurity, DT, and Corporate Development teams on milestones
• Establish success metrics, acceptance criteria, and change control for business outcomes improvements and M&A initiatives
• Run status reviews and leadership readouts with clear decisions, risks, and value tracking
• Act as an agile coach to the team to ensure successful implementation of Workday project
• Manage risks, issues, and cross-product dependencies; drive mitigation, escalation, and decision-ready options
• Lead day-to-day execution across configurations, testing, and integrations partnering with HR stakeholders, DT and supplier teams aligning to releases
• Coordinate tenant strategy (sandbox/preview/production/implementation), cutover, and hypercare; plan M&A-specific cutovers (Day 1 vs. Day 2)
• Ensure data privacy, and compliance (SOC, SOX); apply data segregation and export controls
• Manage supplier partners and M&A diligence vendors; define SOWs, SLAs, and quality gates
• Define and execute test strategies (unit, SIT, UAT, regression); include Day 1/Day 2 role-based security and access testing
• Partner on change management, comms, training, and localization; ensure TSA entry/exit plans and knowledge transfer

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 4 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 7 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 9 years of professional experience
• Minimum 3 years of project management experience
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job
• Workday knowledge and/or certifications
• Experience with global ERP rollouts and/or module implementations
• Demonstrated understanding of Lean principles
• PMP/PgMP and/or Agile/SAFe certifications
• Knowledge of HR processes, payroll interfaces, data privacy, audit, and compliance
• Experience with M&A integrations/divestitures (Day 1 readiness through stabilization/hypercare)
• Strong business analysis and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage team operations across the product ecosystem and make tradeoffs based on key business priorities
• Demonstrated experience leading and influencing across a complex, global matrix organization
• Ability to decompose problems and make decisions when problems or solutions are not 100% defined
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Demonstrated ownership of business decisions including outcomes and any required rework plans
• Demonstrated strength in project governance, integrated planning, dependency management, and communications
• Ability to proactively identify and remove obstacles or barriers
• Proficient in Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help team resolve issues
• Strong analytical, project management, and organizational skills
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and to prioritize under pressure
• Rapid learner with strong curiosity