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Manager – Workday Engagement Manager (Program & Delivery)

United States

About Alpha Alternatives

Alpha Alternatives, part of Alpha Group, is a specialist consulting business serving the alternative investment industry. We work with leading private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital, and diversified asset managers to address complex business and operational challenges through industry expertise, management consulting, technology, data, and transformation delivery.

Within Alpha Alternatives, the Management Company Operations (MCO) practice advises CFOs and finance leaders on driving meaningful organizational change through operational and technology transformation. We assess current-state operating models across people, process, data, and technology and partner with clients to design and implement scalable future-state solutions aligned with their business objectives.

Our core solution areas include:

  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • Business Spend Management and Accounts Payable
  • Travel & Expense Management
  • Expense Allocation and Chargebacks
  • Budgeting & Planning
  • HRIS Platforms
  • Treasury Management Systems

Our services span the transformation lifecycle, including:

  • Target Operating Model Design
  • Process Redesign and Optimization
  • Policy Development and Governance
  • Technical Architecture and Integration Strategy
  • System Evaluation and Selection
  • Program and Project Management
  • System Implementation
  • Managed Services and Staff Augmentation
  • AI Enablement

We work across the private markets landscape, helping firms design and implement the operating infrastructure, technology, and capabilities required to support growth and increasing organizational complexity.

The Workday Practice

Alpha’s Workday Practice sits within MCO and specializes in Workday implementation, optimization, solution health assessments, release readiness, and Application Management Services (AMS). The practice works closely with Alpha’s broader advisory, data, and technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable Workday solutions and provide continuity from strategy and design through implementation and ongoing support.

The Role

Own engagement governance and project management across Workday implementations, coordinating methodology, timelines, scope, budget, resources, risks, and cross-workstream delivery. The Engagement Manager serves as the primary coordination point between client project leadership and the implementation team.

What You’ll Do

  • Project Governance: Drive the project lifecycle in alignment with Workday implementation methodology, maintaining integrated plans, milestones, RAID logs, decision logs, status reporting, and governance routines.
  • Scope, Budget & Schedule: Manage project scope, delivery timelines, budget tracking, resource plans, dependencies, and change control. Escalate issues and variances with clear options and recommended actions.
  • Client Stakeholder Management: Develop strong relationships with client project managers, sponsors, and workstream leads and serve as the primary organizational point of contact for day-to-day delivery coordination.
  • Workday Coordination: Coordinate required communications, checkpoints, and quality assurance activities with Workday teams, including Delivery Assurance where applicable.
  • Cross-Workstream Leadership: Facilitate coordination across functional, technical, data, testing, change, and client teams to maintain alignment and resolve dependencies.
  • Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify delivery risks and issues, establish mitigation plans, drive ownership, and ensure timely escalation and resolution.
  • Testing, Cutover & Readiness Governance: Coordinate overall testing, UAT, cutover, deployment, and stabilization plans across workstreams and ensure readiness criteria are clearly defined and tracked.
  • Executive Communication: Prepare concise, decision-oriented status reporting and facilitate steering committee and governance discussions with senior stakeholders.
  • Methodology & Continuous Improvement: Promote disciplined use of delivery methods, templates, and governance standards and contribute lessons learned and improvements to reusable engagement management assets.

Required Experience & Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience managing enterprise software deployments, preferably Workday Financials, HCM, or similarly complex cloud transformation programs.
  • Strong PMO, project planning, scope control, budget management, risk management, and cross-team coordination skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage client stakeholders and communicate effectively with senior project and business leaders.
  • Experience coordinating multiple functional and technical workstreams through testing, cutover, and go-live.

Workday Certifications

  • Workday Engagement Manager (EM) certification is strongly preferred / required where applicable to assigned engagements.
  • Large Enterprise (LE) Engagement Manager certification is a plus.
  • PMP or other recognized project management credential is valued.

Location & Travel

This position is US-based and primarily remote. Occasional travel to client sites and Alpha offices may be required based on project needs, key implementation milestones, and team collaboration.

Compensation and Benefits 

  • Learning and development: Vast opportunities to self-development, unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
  • Flexible working: Work-life balance with flexible schedule
  • Community events: We offer a range of social events and meetups
  • 25 days’ holiday in addition to public holidays
  • Supplemented medical, dental and vision coverage
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Wellness initiatives to promote healthy working, including an allowance for remote working technology
  • Access to discounted travel, tickets, events, and more through our benefit partner 

There are a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to - skill sets, experience and training, and licensure and certifications. A reasonable estimate of the salary range is $130,000 – $160,000 USD, subject to change based on salary benchmarking. In addition to this salary, candidates will be eligible for a variable bonus.

 

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