Our story At Alight, we believe a company's success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to "Be Alight." Our Values: Champion People - be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs. Grow with purpose - Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives. Be Alight - act with integrity, be real and empower others. It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team's expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life. With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work. Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight. Learn more at careers.alight.com. Job Summary The Workday Director collaborates across their aligned Workday domains with Resource Management, Human Resources, and Practice leadership to drive consistent delivery practices, maximize practice profitability, and drive innovation. Additionally, the Workday directors will be responsible for managing and motivating their team members, supporting their career and professional development, and ensuring that they complete tasks in their functional areas that meet business needs. Responsible for monitoring resource forecasting and utilization, team staffing assignments, and delivering against the business financial goals. Continues to work in their area of focus on implementation projects as a Functional Lead, Architect, or other project leadership role. Key Responsibilities Delivery Responsibilities Innovate within and cross practices to maximize delivery efficiencies, identify new delivery offerings, automation, deliver per methodology, adoption and advancement of tools Assist with developing and maintaining practice methodology and provide input into overall Professional Services methodology across LE/ME/Launch Educate on information relevant to all aspects of delivery and operations: WD knowledge, methodology, POV, best practices, tools/automation Coordinate with Services counterparts to maintain and improve POV and Professional Services/Services delivery Provide input into project staffing and resource skills classification Manage job requisition, facilitate interview and selection process Profitability Responsibilities Support global delivery model: DCA development; ways of working offshore; global standardization and best practices; global methodology Provide sales support: Support sales meetings; provide input to sale materials; develop sales support resources Maximize practice profitability: Maximize and balance team and delivery center utilization; identify cross-domain training opportunities to improve staffing efficiency People Management Responsibilities Motivate and inspire the team to do their best work Support new initiates; build foundation of continuous improvement; focus on colleague empowerment; colleague retention Support Colleague training and professional development Lead support and development Consultant support and development People Manager support and development New hire onboarding/training Support Practice escalations-People Manager, technology, office, delivery 1:1 with direct reports and skip level (as needed) Identify high performers and support career progression Participate in succession planning for practice leadership, line level managers and leads Facilitate team meetings and cross-functional knowledge sharing Project Delivery-Based Responsibilities Responsible for leading one