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Workday

Builds software to manage HR and finances

Business Development Representative - Norwegian, Swedish or Danish

Full-Time
€36.4k - €54.6k/yr+ Bonus + Commission + Stock Grants
Junior
Dublin, Ireland
HybridHybrid role; at least 50% in-office time per quarter in Dublin, Ireland.
Sales & Account ManagementSales Development Representative

About the job

Requirements
  • Advanced language skills in English plus fluent Norwegian, Swedish or Danish
  • 1 year of experience in sales, sales development, recruitment, customer service, renewals, consulting or internships
  • candid communication & trust building: excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to build rapport quickly
  • business acumen: ability to absorb new concepts and showcase a passion for innovation in order to delight and inspire our prospect customers
  • accountability: demonstrate a highly motivated, tenacious, and detail-oriented approach to work
Responsibilities
  • Proactively build relationships with new customers for Workday, dealing closely with accounts management team based across Europe, the Middle East and Africa to develop sales activity
  • Apply consultative selling skills to initiate long-standing relationships with prospective customers and executive sponsors
  • Use effective selling strategies to position Workday as a viable alternative to legacy solutions, while educating the market on our technology and applications
  • Generate new business opportunities through strategic outbound calling and prospecting into enterprise companies
Desired Qualifications
  • Salesforce knowledge is a plus

About the company

Workday builds cloud software that organizations use to manage employees, finances, and business plans. Its Human Capital Management and Financial Management applications handle processes such as hiring, payroll, expenses, accounting, and reporting, while Adaptive Planning helps teams build budgets and forecasts. Users work in connected applications with shared data and permissions, and Workday also sells AI tools that search information and carry out HR and finance tasks. Customers pay for subscriptions, with additional revenue from implementation, training, and other professional services. Workday was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Pleasanton, California

Founded

2005

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What believers are saying

  • Subscriptions keep growing: Workday reported quarterly subscription revenue up 13.9% to $2.471 billion in August 2026 results.
  • Regional distribution expanded: Workday launched UAE operations with a Dubai office and local leadership in October 2026.
  • Employee development has explicit support: Workday's current careers page highlights internal mobility and investment in employee skills.

What critics are saying

  • Job security weakened: Workday announced a 2.5% workforce reduction, mainly in Product and Technology, in September 2026.
  • Incumbents resist displacement: Workday names Oracle and SAP as primary rivals with established customer relationships in HR and finance.
  • Enterprise sales take time: Workday reports typical new customer sales cycles of six to twelve months, sometimes exceeding eighteen.

What makes Workday unique

  • AI acts inside established permissions: Workday launched Sana with over 300 HR and finance skills in March 2026.
  • Federal planning meets authorization requirements: Workday Adaptive Planning achieved FedRAMP Moderate for sensitive unclassified data in July 2026.
  • Custom apps inherit platform controls: Workday Extend lets developers build applications using its existing organizational and security models.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Hybrid Work Options

Performance Bonus

Stock Options

Professional Development Budget

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Associated Press
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Commutifi launched two products on October 13, 2026: the Commutifi MCP, which links its platform to AI tools companies already use, and the Workday Commute Agent Suite, built on it. Together they bring commute management into Workday, where users can run programs by asking Workday's Sana, Claude, or ChatGPT. Commuting is a $1 trillion category in the US, yet less than 1% of commute data reaches Workday. The suite pulls parking, transit, shuttle, vanpool, and benefits data into one system alongside existing employee and location data. Specialist agents compare commute options, assess parking leases, and trace costs to contracts. Each agent acts only within the user's permissions, and nothing is booked or spent without explicit approval. Workday is testing the suite at its Boulder, Colorado office. Both products are in early access, with general availability within the month.

Fortune
Oct 13th, 2026
Workday's Aneel Bhusri returns as CEO to fight AI disruption after $1B Sana deal

Workday has brought back cofounder Aneel Bhusri as chief executive officer, as the software maker faces pressure from artificial intelligence (AI). He returned in February after co-chief Carl Eschenbach left, having stepped back in 2024. Revenue grew 13% in the latest fiscal year, its slowest pace in years, and the company has had several rounds of layoffs. Its shares have swung between $300 and $112, and activist investor Elliott Management holds a $2 billion stake. Workday bought Swedish AI startup Sana for more than $1 billion six months ago. In August, reports said it was in talks with private equity firm Silver Lake about going private; shares rose about 18%. Bhusri says he came back "for the long run," not to sell.

PR Newswire
Oct 13th, 2026
Workday Candidate Profile lets job seekers save details once, applying 40% faster

Workday announced Workday Candidate Profile at its Rising 2026 event in Las Vegas on October 13, 2026. The tool lets job seekers save their information once and reuse it when applying to the thousands of companies that hire through Workday. Applicants sign in with an email and a one-time code, with no new password. About 80% of standard fields will be pre-filled, which Workday expects to make applying about 40% faster. Candidates can edit entries and choose what each employer sees. Workday says 60% of candidates abandon applications because of length and friction. The tool does not rank, recommend, or reject anyone, and employers need not change how they hire. It is expected to reach Workday Recruiting customers in early calendar year 2027.

PR Newswire
Oct 13th, 2026
Workday makes Sana its new home screen, an AI agent that completes HR, finance and IT tasks

Workday has made Sana its new Workday Home, an AI experience that gathers tasks, decisions, meetings, and agent activity in one place. Announced at Workday Rising in Las Vegas on October 13, 2026, it lets employees ask for what they need in plain language while Sana directs Workday's agents to do the work. Sana can act, not just answer: approve an expense, process a leave request, or reset a password. Every action follows a company's existing rules, with people brought in when approval or judgment is needed. Workday also introduced Sana Concierge, an HR and IT service agent that resolves requests such as onboarding, leave, and password resets before they become tickets. The new Home is available now. Concierge is open to early adopters and is expected to reach general availability in the first quarter of 2027.

PR Newswire
Oct 13th, 2026
Workday launches Work Intelligence to map AI's impact on tasks and skills, building on 75,000 skills

Workday launched Work Intelligence on October 13, 2026, a tool that shows companies how AI is changing the tasks inside each job and which skills staff will need next. It breaks jobs into tasks and links those tasks to skills. The tool draws on Workday Skills Cloud, which more than 3,450 customers use. It is built on an ontology of more than 75,000 canonical skills. Work Intelligence works with Workday Decision Intelligence to show which employees hold adjacent skills, and with Workday Learning powered by Sana to suggest personalised learning paths. Leaders can also measure how AI affects tasks, time use, and roles. Neither tool makes decisions about people. "The basic building block of work is shifting from the job to the task," said Nikki Helmer, vice president, talent management and insights, at Workday. It is available now to early access Workday Human Capital Management customers.