Workday Functional Lead

We are recruiting a Workday Functional Lead, for a leading international industrial group with strong European roots, which is setting up a Group Business Services hub in Porto.

The hub will bring together expertise in selected support activities to serve the Group’s international operations.

- Lead Workday HCM design and governance, covering core HR, organizations, positions and employee lifecycle processes;

- Design and optimize end-to-end Workday business processes, ensuring consistency, controls and a seamless user experience;

- Own the functional integration landscape, ensuring reliable data flows across Payroll, Time, Finance, Identity, Benefits and third-party systems.

- Lead Talent & Performance solutions, including goals, performance, feedback, talent reviews and succession processes;

- Lead Workday Peakon Employee Voice, ensuring effective employee data synchronization, survey design, segmentation and reporting;

- Govern organizational changes through Workday Org Studio and Mass Actions, ensuring controlled and scalable implementation;

- Drive testing, deployment and continuous improvement, partnering with HR, IT, local teams and implementation partners across the global Workday landscape.

- Current Workday HCM certification;

- 5+ years of Workday experience, ideally in functional, integration or product ownership roles;

- Fluency in English;

- Proven experience delivering multi-country Workday HCM implementations;

- Experience with Talent & Performance and/or Workday Peakon Employee Voice;

- Strong understanding of HR processes, data flows and integration dependencies across global HR environments.

- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across HR, IT, Payroll, local teams and external partners.

An opportunity to join a renowned multinational in the industrial sector and contribute to the future of its new unit in Portugal.