# Workday HRIS Lead Specialist

**Company**: ICON
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster.

As a Workday Integration Manager at ICON, you will oversee the strategy, implementation, and optimization of HR technology solutions to support our organizational goals and enhance the employee experience.

**Workday HRIS Operations & Governance**

- Act as escalation point for complex Workday L2/L3 cases across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Absence and Integrations

- Manage direct escalations from Tier 1 analysts and HR/TA stakeholders on urgent or sensitive cases

- Provide decisioning and risk management for high-impact issues affecting hiring, pay or executive populations

- Oversee HRIS backlog prioritisation and recurring refinement forums

- Ensure documentation and governance controls are in place

**Functional Team Leadership & Configuration Direction**

- Provide day-to-day leadership and support to the functional HRIS team across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation and Absence

- Act as first point of contact for complex functional or technical queries where analysts require confirmation or direction

- Support the team in assessing requirements, options and impacts before configuration changes are made

- Guide next steps on configuration for Change Requests (CRs) and project work, including tenant strategy (sandbox vs preview vs production)

- Help shape and validate configuration approaches to ensure they align to global design, governance standards and downstream impacts

- Remove blockers by advising on sequencing, dependencies, testing approach and stakeholder alignment

**Supplier, Contract & SOW Management**

- Coordinate SOW preparation, internal approvals and VP signature routing via DocuSign

- Liaise with Procurement and Legal to ensure commercial and contractual compliance

- Maintain oversight of active AMS and project SOWs

**Release Management**

- release impact assessment

- change gating/evidence

- deployment coordination

- post-release stabilization

**Annual Process Governance & Traceability**

- Responsible for BAU delivery (e.g. performance review, compensation cycles and benefit enrollment events)

**Workday security/data reviews & access governance**

- Working with cross functional teams to ensure all security related requirements are fully analysed and appropriate checks and balances applied.

- Facilitating weekly team and quarterly SLT governance forums.

**Your Profile:**

- Solid human resources experience, with the ability to manage competing priorities and develop your team.

- Required qualifications and experience:

- Bachelor's degree in information systems, human resources, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

- Extensive experience in HR technology management, including implementation and oversight of Workday

- Strong strategic thinking skills with a proven ability to align technology with business goals.

- Excellent communication and leadership abilities, with experience managing teams and cross-functional projects.

- A commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and delivering a high-quality employee experience through technology.

- Willingness to travel as required (approximately 5%)

**Rewards & Benefits**

- Competitive base salary and performance related incentives

- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable

- Retirement and pension plans

- Life assurance and disability coverage

- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources

- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

## Skills

### Required
- Workday
- HR technology management
- strategic thinking
- leadership
- communication

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