Associate Dir, HR Dig Ops Global Workday Lead

Baxter International Inc. • Deerfield, IL

1d • $160,000 - $220,000

About The Position

This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Summary: Translates enterprise HR digital strategy into executable roadmaps, platform decisions, and delivered outcomes across Baxter’s global Workday ecosystem. Serves as the Global Workday Lead, responsible for driving roadmap execution, governance, innovation, and adoption of Workday and AI-enabled capabilities in support of business objectives, global scalability, and improved employee experience. Acts as a senior execution partner to HR Digital leadership, HR COEs, IT BRMs & Delivery teams, Global Business Services, and external vendors, ensuring disciplined delivery while remaining engaged in the level of detail required to effectively direct teams and navigate complex global environments.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to execute within a defined strategy, translating priorities into structured plans and delivered outcomes.
• Proven experience coordinating multi-module Workday environments.
• Strong functional and system knowledge across Workday HCM, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition (Recruiting), Compensation Payroll, and Time & Attendance.
• Experience leveraging Workday innovations and Microsoft Copilot (or similar AI-enabled tools) to enhance operational efficiency and insight.
• Strong organizational and judgment skills, with the ability to balance tactical realities with enterprise priorities.
• Ability to connect dependencies, anticipate impacts, and drive clarity across teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills in global environments.
• Bachelor’s degree required; HR, Business, or Information Systems preferred.
• 8–10+ years of progressive experience in HR systems, HR digital operations, or related roles.
• Experience leading teams and working across global delivery models strongly preferred.
• Experience transforming or operating under Global-Intelligent Business Services organizations

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience on Workday and Service Now systems

Responsibilities

• Drives execution of the global Workday roadmap, translating defined HR digital strategy into prioritized initiatives and delivered outcomes, measured by on-time delivery, adoption of released capabilities, and reduced reactive or ad-hoc work.
• Serves as the Global Workday product lead, coordinating execution across Workday HCM, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition (Recruiting), Compensation, Payroll, and Time & Attendance, ensuring alignment, data integrity, and consistency across modules.
• Leads the HR & Workday governance process, including intake, prioritization, and decision forums, measured by improved transparency, clearer decision ownership, and reduced rework or escalation.
• Partners closely with HR Digital leadership to ensure strategic priorities are clearly translated into executable plans, while remaining engaged in delivery details to direct teams, remove obstacles, and maintain execution discipline.
• Represent HR Digital Operations in cross-functional and leadership forums, leading working sessions that advance HR technology-enabled transformation.
• Drive active Workday release readiness and adoption, engaging COEs and HR stakeholders to ensure understanding, preparedness, and effective utilization of new functionality.
• Drives adoption of Workday innovations and Microsoft Copilot-enabled use cases aligned to defined priorities and delivering clear productivity improvements, enhanced insights, and scalable implementation where value is demonstrated.
• Translates emerging technology and AI capabilities into practical execution plans, ensuring initiatives are grounded in data quality, security, compliance, and operational readiness.
• Coordinates the Workday integration landscape from an execution perspective, partnering with internal and external subject matter experts, with the objective of ensuring integration stability, reduced incidents, and clear ownership across systems.
• Serve as the lead partner to IT BRMs ensuring cohesive design and execution across platforms.
• Owns strategic relationship with HR vendors (e.g. Workday, Service Now), proactively identifying innovation opportunities, use cases, and external best practices to drive value for Baxter.
• Serves as the HR Digital Operations compliance lead for Workday, ensuring audit readiness, control effectiveness, and timely issue remediation.
• Supports HR digital execution related to acquisitions, divestitures, and organizational changes, measured by platform readiness, data accuracy, and minimal disruption.
• Lead process-to-configuration workshops, guiding stakeholders on how Workday and Service Now (with support of Tech SNOW team) capabilities can be leveraged or adopted to deliver business outcomes.
• Leads and develops a globally distributed team (4–5 resources), measured by increased ownership, improved delivery maturity, and reduced dependency on tactical escalation.

Benefits

• Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles.
• Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance.
• Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching.
• We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave.
• Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level