Product Owner, Workday Adaptive Planning

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

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About The Position

The Product Owner, Workday Adaptive Planning co-owns 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 integrations, security and permissions, models, reports, and dashboards. It will advance workforce planning from headcount and budget forecasting toward strategic workforce planning, including scenario-based organizational design, skills and talent supply/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 related teams to translate workforce planning needs into a prioritized backlog and to maintain a platform that is accurate, secure, and trusted. It also supports governance, testing, deployment, stakeholder training, adoption monitoring, and evaluation of relevant Workday features and innovations.

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.
• Hands-on expertise building and maintaining Workday Adaptive Planning integrations and models, including sheets, dimensions, versions, and assumptions.
• 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 they feed workforce planning.
• Understanding of workforce planning concepts, including headcount and budget planning, organizational design and scenario modeling, and position management.
• 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, including the ability to translate technical concepts for People Organization and Finance stakeholders and business planning needs for technical teams.
• Strong stakeholder and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives concurrently and deliver within timelines.
• Knowledge of emerging Workday features, such as Adaptive Planning, Prism Analytics, and Extend, and the ability to evaluate new functionality for roadmap fit.
• Strategic vision and maturity roadmapping skills to define a future state for strategic workforce planning and build a realistic path toward it.
• Ability to analyze current states, recommend pragmatic solutions, and drive complex changes to completion.
• Foresight and change leadership, including awareness of emerging trends and the ability to build transition plans aligned with enterprise vision.
• Systems thinking and judgment, including the ability to apply analytical thought and creativity to structure work and select an appropriate solution path.
• Collaborative partnership skills, including the ability to work effectively with the business Product Manager and communicate roles and decision rights.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience maturing a workforce planning function from headcount and budget planning to scenario-based 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 and experience with data archival or migration from legacy systems.
• Familiarity with skills taxonomies, talent analytics, or predictive workforce modeling.
• Product ownership or business analysis experience.
• Experience partnering with a business-side Product Manager in an Agile environment.
• Experience with skills-based or talent supply/demand planning.

Responsibilities

• Co-own the vision and multi-year roadmap for Strategic Workforce Planning with the business Product Manager, advancing the capability toward scenario planning, organizational design modeling, and skills- and talent-based forecasting.
• Translate People Organization and Finance strategy into workforce planning requirements and prioritize them in the Adaptive Planning backlog.
• Identify and prioritize model enhancements, including new dimensions, planning versions, and scenario types.
• Design, build, and maintain integrations between Workday HCM and Adaptive Planning to ensure accurate, timely flows of 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, working with Workday HCM and Adaptive Planning administrators as needed.
• Enhance integrations, security configurations, reports, and dashboards in response to stakeholder feedback and evolving 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 feed or influence workforce planning assumptions.
• 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, UAT, and regression testing and deployment for integrations, security and permission changes, models, reports, and dashboards.
• Ensure budget, forecast, and headcount planning cycles are supported without disruption.
• Train and enable People Organization business partners, Finance, and leadership through model walkthroughs and guidance on scenario planning and report/dashboard usage.
• Monitor adoption, performance, and data quality metrics to identify where the platform and process should evolve.
• Stay current on relevant Workday Adaptive Planning and HCM releases and assess their fit with the strategic workforce planning roadmap.
• Promote workforce analytics and planning automation best practices, and partner with People Organization, Finance, and People Analytics teams to pilot innovations.
• Provide leadership and guidance to cross-functional team members supporting the product.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, services, and programs.
• 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 (FTO) for eligible U.S.-based exempt employees, subject to manager approval.
• Paid company holidays; eligible employees may also receive paid sick leave, paid volunteer days, summer-hours flexibility, leaves of absence, and an annual Global Shutdown, subject to eligibility and applicable terms.
• Additional time-off options for some employee groups, including paid vacation and optional holidays.

What This Job Offers

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