Adoption and Experience Senior Principal Consultant
Collaborative Solutions
Adoption and Experience Senior Principal Consultant
Collaborative Solutions
Workday implementation and optimization consultancy
As Adoption & Experience becomes a strategic growth lever for the Workday Practice, we need senior leaders who can shape how adoption is delivered at scale—not just on individual projects, but across regions, offerings, and client portfolios. The Senior Principal Consultantexists to raise the bar and multiply impact; defining standards, influencing stakeholders, and embedding experience-led adoption as a non-negotiable part of Workday success.
The Senior Principal Consultant is a recognised regional authority in Adoption & Experience. You will lead complex and visible engagements, influence stakeholders at all levels, and act as a practice multiplier—shaping offers, guiding junior consultants, and ensuring A&E consistently delivers measurable business value.
Key Responsibilities
Own adoption strategy for large-scale and/or multi-phase Workday programs, ensuring alignment to business case outcomes and long-term value realisation.
Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders at all levels on adoption risk, readiness, and ROI—using insight, data, and pattern recognition from prior engagements.
Sponsor and guide advanced use of Workday native adoption capabilities.
Partner with functional and product leaders to ensure adoption is considered during design and configuration, not retrofitted post build.
Establish and mature adoption measurement frameworks that can be reused across clients and industries.
Review adoption performance across client engagement,identifyingsystemic risks, improvement opportunities, and success patterns.
Coach and sponsor junior consultant; provide quality oversight on client engagements and strategic deliverables.
Lead internal initiatives that scale capability.
Play a visible role in sales, pursuits, and orals, helping position A&E as essential to Workday success.
Capabilities and Experience
Extensive experience leading enterprise-scale change/adoption initiatives, ideally in Workday or similar SaaS ecosystems.
Provide ability to influence stakeholders at all levels andoperatecredibly at a senior level.
Deep understanding of experience-led, data-informed adoption models and how to operationalize them.
Track recordof building capability in others and shaping team/practice-level outcomes.
Qualifications
PROSCI® (or comparable) is beneficial
Workday certification(s) or willingness to obtain/maintainis strongly valued (roleoperatesin a Workday focused environment)
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Workday implementation and optimization consultancy
Collaborative Solutions, operating as the Cognizant Workday practice, provides global advisory and implementation services to transform Finance and HR through cloud-based Workday deployments. It guides clients from strategy and change management through to deployment and ongoing support, focusing on Financial Management and Human Capital Management (HCM) with modules for planning, payroll, recruiting, and analytics. The firm distinguishes itself as the longest-tenured Workday Services Partner with deep, specialized expertise, proprietary tools, flexible deployment models, and in-house advisory practices, now integrated into Cognizant’s broader cloud offerings. Its goal is to help organizations modernize internal processes, increase data transparency, and improve operational efficiency while delivering continuous value through application management, optimization projects, and post-deployment support, including services for mergers and acquisitions.
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