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Senior Workday Adaptive Implementation Lead

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IVY Partners

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Our mission Ivy Partners is a Swiss consulting firm that supports businesses in their strategic, technological, and organizational challenges. We are dedicated to providing our employees with a career that promotes both their personal and professional development. We support them in enhancing their skills and offer them genuine opportunities for advancement.

Job Responsibility:

  • Take ownership of the Workday Adaptive Planning for workforce planning use cases including headcount, vacancies, workforce costs, and scenarios
  • Translate evolving business requirements into a scalable planning design which includes planning granularity, baseline vs forecast vs scenarios, and defining drivers and assumptions
  • Define the target operating model for workforce planning, covering roles, cadence, controls, and governance
  • Lead workshops with key stakeholders, structure and document requirements and outcomes, and drive alignment between global standards and local needs
  • Own the functional design of the planning model structure and ensure its usability and robustness for enterprise cycles
  • Define and validate data needs and flows, coordinate with technical teams on integrations, ensure testing readiness, and support change, adoption, and training preparation

Requirements:

  • Senior experience (10+ years) implementing Workday Adaptive Planning, ideally within workforce planning/headcount planning scope
  • Experience in working within large, global organizations with complex governance and multi-entity settings
  • Comfortable operating in environments where requirements evolve and multiple stakeholders need alignment
  • Strong understanding of workforce planning concepts and capable of designing solutions that are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise planning cycles
  • Strong technical literacy in Adaptive Planning including model structure, dimensions, versions, and data import concepts
  • Ability to challenge and govern technical delivery from integrators and are focused on adoption and sustainability
  • Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills and are structured, decision-oriented, and able to arbitrate trade-offs
What we offer:

Supportive environment where everyone is valued and empowered with training and growth prospects

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Job Posted:
January 11, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
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