About the Role

RZ Strategies is seeking two mid-level Project Managers to join the team leading our enterprise Workday ERP deployment. This is a high-visibility program transforming how our client manages projects, finances, resources, and people across our engineering and design business groups.

These roles sit on the internal program team — not on the implementation partner side. You will own one or more workstreams end-to-end, driving alignment between business stakeholders, our system integrator, and our client’s functional and executive leadership. You will be expected to manage ambiguity, surface issues early, and keep decisions moving on a program where the stakes are real and the timeline is firm.

What You’ll Do

Own the day-to-day delivery of one or more Workday workstreams — tracking progress, managing risks and issues, and holding the program team and SI accountable to plan.
Partner with functional leads (Finance, HR, Project Controls, Operations) to drive configuration decisions, facilitate workshops, and ensure business requirements are captured and ratified.
Maintain and manage program documentation — RAID logs, decision logs, status reports, meeting notes — with the discipline expected on an enterprise-scale deployment.
Prepare and present workstream status to program leadership, the Executive Steering Committee, and external stakeholders — surfacing issues honestly and with recommended paths forward.
Coordinate with Business Group Ambassadors and change management resources to ensure impacted teams are informed, engaged, and ready.
Manage dependencies across workstreams, flag cross-functional impacts, and escalate when progress is blocked.
Support testing cycles (SIT, UAT), cutover planning, and hypercare preparation within your workstream scope.
Contribute to a program culture where decisions get made, documented, and held — not endlessly relitigated.

What You Bring

Required

4–7 years of project management experience, including at least one full-lifecycle SaaS implementation as a workstream lead or PM — not coordinator.
Direct experience managing workstreams on a Workday, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or comparable enterprise platform implementation.
Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders at multiple levels — from functional team members to senior business leaders — with credibility and directness.
Strong command of project management fundamentals: scope, schedule, risk, issues, dependencies, and status reporting.
Experience working alongside a system integrator or consulting partner — understanding where the SI’s responsibility ends and yours begins.
Comfortable operating in environments where requirements evolve, decisions are complex, and ambiguity is the norm.
Exceptional written and verbal communication — you can write a clear status update, facilitate a difficult meeting, and present a risk to an executive without being asked to simplify it first.

Preferred

Workday-specific implementation experience (HCM, Financials, or PSA/Projects) strongly preferred.
Familiarity with professional services, engineering, or project-based industries.
Experience on a program with multiple business units or a federated stakeholder model.
PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification.
Exposure to change management frameworks (Prosci or similar) — you don’t need to be a change manager, but you need to understand why the work matters.

What You Won’t Find Here

This is not a project coordinator role with a PM title. It is not a role where you run status meetings and pass information up. You will be expected to own your workstream, manage your stakeholders, and drive decisions — including uncomfortable ones.

This is also not a role for someone whose only experience is on the SI side. We need someone who has sat where our business stakeholders sit — who understands the client experience of an implementation, not just the delivery side of one.

What RZ Strategies Offers

A program with genuine executive sponsorship and a clear January 2027 go-live target.
The opportunity to build internal implementation capability that will outlast this program.
A collaborative team that takes the work seriously and treats each other well.
Competitive compensation. Salary range to be discussed during screening.
Chicago office available; remote candidates in Central or Eastern time zones preferred.

Pay: $95.00 - $100.00 per hour

Application Question(s):

Which SaaS platform implementation did you lead a workstream on, and what did that workstream cover?

Experience:

Project management: 4 years (Required)

Willingness to travel:

25% (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote

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