Senior Workday Product Manager (Remote Available)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

About The Position

The Senior Workday Product Manager manages the vision, roadmap, and delivery of Workday Financials product capabilities for Vanderbilt Health. The role translates business, operational, and regulatory needs into a governed product roadmap aligned with organizational priorities and system constraints. It serves as the domain product owner for Workday Financial Management, Adaptive Planning, and Supply Chain Management, partnering with the HCM/Payroll Product Manager to support cross-functional alignment, system continuity, and coordinated delivery. The role is cross-trained across Workday domains to provide platform coverage and support. The position ensures capabilities are delivered in a controlled, auditable, and scalable manner consistent with Vanderbilt Health governance, security, and compliance standards. It works within structured intake, prioritization, and approval processes so product decisions are traceable and aligned with enterprise objectives. The role also supports release planning and feature adoption, stakeholder coordination, requirements refinement, outcome measurement, and evaluation of market trends and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled functionality.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
Workday experience.
At least five years of relevant experience supporting ERP, Product Management, Business Systems, Application Support, Project Delivery, or related functions.
Experience collaborating with business stakeholders, technical resources, and third-party vendors.
Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Knowledge of Workday architecture, business processes, security model, integrations, and reporting capabilities sufficient to incorporate platform constraints into product decisions.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting Workday Financial Management, Supply Chain Management, and Adaptive Planning.
Experience leading Workday release management activities.
Experience with ticket management in Jira and ServiceNow.
Experience supporting Agile delivery methodologies and sprint-based work management.
Healthcare industry experience.
Experience in Product Management, Project Management, and/or Business Analysis.

Responsibilities

Lead the vision, roadmap, and delivery of Workday Financials, Adaptive Planning, and Supply Chain Management product capabilities.
Translate customer, operational, and regulatory needs into roadmap enhancements while balancing value, risk, and platform constraints.
Partner with the HCM/Payroll Product Manager on cross-functional alignment, dependency management, and continuity of support.
Facilitate structured intake, prioritization, and approval processes in alignment with enterprise standards.
Lead Workday Financials release planning and feature adoption, evaluating new capabilities, regression risk, integration impacts, and business readiness.
Ensure product changes meet audit, compliance, and documentation requirements, including maintaining decision logs, approvals, and supporting artifacts.
Coordinate with business, IT, security, and governance stakeholders to resolve competing priorities, escalate risks, and support decisions.
Collaborate with functional leaders, analysts, and architects to refine requirements, optimize processes, and drive adoption.
Analyze market trends, vendor capabilities, and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled functionality, to inform roadmap decisions.
Measure and monitor outcomes such as adoption, operational efficiency, and value realization.
Coordinate product enhancements and releases by tracking dependencies, risks, and issue resolution; manage scope-change prioritization and support production readiness.
Maintain audit-ready documentation and support audit and compliance activities with complete, accurate, traceable evidence.
Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and AI-enabled features, coordinating intake and review in accordance with governance, risk, approval, and organizational policy requirements.