Workday Talent & Performance Functional Consultant

Job location: Bangalore, Pune, Noida, Chennai & Jaipur

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead Workday Talent, Performance, and Learning workstreams across implementation, optimization, and support engagements, with accountability for solution quality, delivery timelines, risks, dependencies, and client outcomes.
• Provide functional leadership for Workday Talent and Performance, including employee reviews, calibrations, goal management, talent reviews, succession planning, career development, and related business processes.
• Provide functional leadership for Workday Learning, including learning content, campaigns, programs, curricula, enrollment management, learning assignments, compliance training, and reporting considerations.
• Lead design workshops and advise clients on leading practices, process simplification, future-state design, and Workday configuration decisions across Talent, Performance, and Learning.
• Own functional solution decisions within the workstream, drive alignment with Human Resources, Learning, Technology, and Program Leadership stakeholders, and escalate key decisions or risks as appropriate.
• Review and guide configuration, business process design, security considerations, reporting needs, integrations touchpoints, and testing approaches related to Talent, Performance, and Learning.
• Manage and mentor consultants and senior consultants by providing work direction, quality review, coaching, and support throughout project delivery.
• Partner with cross-functional Workday teams to address dependencies with Core HCM, Compensation, Recruiting, Absence, Security, Integrations, Reporting, and Change Management.
• Establish and oversee test scenarios, use cases, defect triage, deployment readiness, and post-production support activities to ensure stable and successful solution delivery.
• Develop executive-ready status updates, recommendations, decision materials, and client presentations that clearly communicate risks, options, trade-offs, and next steps.
• Support change management, communication, training, and adoption planning for Talent, Performance, and Learning processes.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Talent & Performance and Learning certification are mandatory.
• Good experience in Workday HCM delivery, with strong functional depth in Talent, Performance, and Learning.
• Experience delivering multiple Workday Talent, Performance, and/or Learning implementations, enhancements, or optimization initiatives across key project phases.
• Strong understanding of Talent and Performance processes, including employee reviews, calibrations, goals, succession planning, talent reviews, development planning, and reporting.
• Strong understanding of Learning processes, including learning administration, content setup, campaigns, programs, assignments, enrollments, compliance learning, and learner experience.
• Ability to lead client workshops, facilitate decision-making, manage stakeholder expectations, and translate business requirements into practical Workday solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage workstream scope, timelines, risks, dependencies, deliverables, and quality across complex engagements.
• Experience mentoring and reviewing the work of team members, including consultants and senior consultants.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear client-facing deliverables, recommendations, and executive updates.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, and organizational skills, with the ability to operate effectively across cross-functional Workday and client teams.