Product Owner, Workday Adaptive Planning

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

7d • $158,870 - $192,507

About The Position

The Product Owner, Workday Adaptive Planning will co-own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for Bristol Myers Squibb’s Workforce Planning capability, built on Workday Adaptive Planning and integrated with Workday HCM. The role combines product ownership with hands-on work building and maintaining Adaptive Planning integrations, models, security and permissions, reports, and dashboards. It will advance workforce planning beyond headcount and budget forecasting toward strategic workforce planning, including scenario-based organizational design, skills and talent supply-and-demand analysis, and long-range workforce modeling that informs business and talent strategy.

The role partners with the business Product Manager, People Organization, Finance leaders, and other stakeholders to translate evolving workforce planning needs into prioritized work. It maintains the accuracy, security, and reliability of the platform; coordinates cross-system data interfaces; supports governance, testing, deployment, and planning cycles; and enables stakeholders to use models, scenarios, reports, and dashboards. It also monitors adoption, performance, and data quality and evaluates Workday developments and workforce-planning innovations for roadmap fit.

The position calls for a strategic, collaborative product owner with strong technical expertise in Workday Adaptive Planning and HCM, sound analytical judgment, and the ability to communicate effectively across business and technical teams. The posting identifies the role as full-time in its compensation information. Compensation for Princeton, New Jersey is listed at $158,870–$192,507, with potential eligibility for additional discretionary cash incentives and stock opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Human Resources, Finance, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of experience in HR or Finance technology, with strong exposure to workforce planning, Workday Adaptive Planning, and Workday HCM.
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise building and maintaining Workday Adaptive Planning integrations and models, including sheets, dimensions, versions, and assumptions.
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise configuring Adaptive Planning security and permissions, including roles, level and version access, and security groups.
• Hands-on experience building reports and dashboards using Adaptive Discovery Boards, OfficeConnect, and/or Workday reporting tools.
• Working knowledge of Workday HCM data structures, including positions, organizations, and worker/job data, and how those data feed workforce planning.
• Understanding of workforce planning concepts, including headcount and budget planning, organizational design and scenario modeling, position management, and ideally skills-based or talent supply-and-demand planning.
• Demonstrated experience owning or co-owning a product backlog, writing user stories or requirements, and prioritizing features in an Agile environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to diagnose and resolve complex integration, security, modeling, and reporting issues.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate technical concepts for People Organization and Finance stakeholders and business planning needs for technical teams.
• Strong stakeholder and project management proficiency, including the ability to manage multiple initiatives concurrently and deliver within timelines.
• Knowledge of emerging Workday features, including Adaptive Planning, Prism Analytics, and Extend, and ability to evaluate functionality for roadmap fit.
• Strategic vision and maturity roadmapping; ability to define a future state for strategic workforce planning and build a realistic path toward it.
• Process and knowledge improvement skills, including analyzing current states, recommending pragmatic solutions, and driving complex changes to completion.
• Foresight and change leadership, including awareness of emerging trends and ability to develop transition plans aligned with enterprise vision.
• Systems thinking and judgment, including maintaining a broad perspective and applying analytical thought and creativity to select solutions.
• Collaborative partnership skills, including building a strong working relationship with the business Product Manager and communicating roles and decision rights clearly.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience maturing a workforce planning function from headcount and budget planning to scenario- or skills-based planning.
• Workday Prism Analytics experience, including data preparation or pipelining to enrich workforce planning datasets.
• Workday Extend experience developing lightweight apps or workflows to complement planning processes.
• Experience tuning Adaptive Planning model performance.
• BIRT reporting experience.
• Experience with data archival or migration from legacy systems to preserve planning history.
• Familiarity with skills taxonomies, talent analytics, or predictive workforce modeling.
• Product ownership or business analysis experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Co-own the vision and multi-year roadmap for Strategic Workforce Planning with the business Product Manager, evolving the capability toward scenario planning, organizational design modeling, and skills- and talent-based forecasting.
• Translate People Organization and Finance strategies into workforce planning requirements and prioritize those requirements in the Adaptive Planning backlog.
• Identify and prioritize model-maturity opportunities, including new dimensions, planning versions, and scenario types.
• Design, build, and maintain integrations between Workday HCM and Adaptive Planning for headcount, compensation, organizational dimensions, and planning versions.
• Configure and maintain Adaptive Planning security and permissions, including roles, level and version access, and security groups.
• Build and maintain reports and dashboards using tools such as Adaptive Discovery Boards, OfficeConnect, and Workday reporting.
• Troubleshoot and resolve data quality, integration, security, and calculation issues, partnering with Workday HCM and Adaptive Planning administrators as needed.
• Enhance integrations, security configurations, reports, and dashboards based on stakeholder feedback and workforce planning needs.
• Own the backlog and hands-on build for Adaptive Planning models, including sheets, dimensions, attributes, versions, and assumptions.
• Coordinate with stakeholders on cross-system interfaces, such as payroll, benefits, and time and attendance, that influence workforce planning assumptions; ensure data quality across upstream and downstream systems.
• Co-own governance and change control for model updates, assumptions, planning calendars, security changes, and integration schedules in alignment with enterprise SDLC and release processes.
• Own and execute unit, system, user acceptance, and regression testing and deployment for integrations, security changes, models, reports, and dashboards; support planning cycles without disruption.
• Drive stakeholder training and enablement for People Organization business partners, Finance, and leadership, including model walkthroughs and scenario, report, and dashboard usage.
• Monitor adoption, performance, and data quality metrics to identify opportunities to evolve the platform and process.
• Stay current on Workday Adaptive Planning and HCM releases and assess planning features, security, integrations, and AI/ML-driven workforce insights for roadmap fit.
• Champion workforce analytics and planning automation best practices and partner with People Organization, Finance, and People Analytics to pilot innovations such as skills taxonomy integration and predictive attrition or demand modeling.
• Provide leadership and guidance to cross-functional team members supporting the product, promoting engagement and productivity.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance offerings, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
• Flexible Time Off without a set accrual limit for eligible U.S.-based exempt employees, subject to manager approval.
• 11 paid company holidays each year for eligible employees.
• For non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico: 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires, subject to manager approval, 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.
• Depending on eligibility, paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer-hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs.
• Eligible employees may receive an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
• Potential eligibility for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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