HR Technical Workday Configuration Product Owner

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You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

**About Us**

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

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**About You**

You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

An opportunity has opened up to change the way we operate in Strategic Procurement and help to deliver the competitive advantage K-C needs to win in the marketplace.

Category Manager (CM) manages the sourcing of all Fasteners, Elastics and Peel Strip (FEPS) requirements in the region. These are major value purchase areas with significant implications in company profitability and service efficiency. The CM must influence senior country leaders and deliver category strategy through strong supplier collaboration, commercial awareness, and strategic thinking. This is typically delivered by working closely with regional procurement, R&E professionals, mills, and key cross functional stakeholders.

In this role the CM supports the development of global category strategies and provides LAO expertise to define, develop, influence, and deploy the regional category strategy for the LAO businesses. The CM will work closely with the global category directors, regional stakeholders and suppliers to execute consistent category strategies that deliver clear business benefits and impact in quality, service and total cost of supply metrics.

**Main responsibilities**:
The HR Digital Technologies team is focused on creating a world-class employee experience that leverages digital enablers to drive business value for the K-C organization. We are a group focused on solving the problems of today and opportunities of the future through applied intelligence, process simplification, global standardization, and self-solve enabled solutions. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual to join our team as a Workday HCM Analyst and Product Owner. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) system and serving as the product owner for work related to the core HR area. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful optimization and configuration of Workday HCM, along with other core HR technology. This role is a mix of maintaining the Core HR product roadmap and stakeholder engagement, as well as hands on aspects of configuration within Workday HCM
- Manage the configuration, maintenance, and support of the Workday HCM system.
- Partner with key HR stakeholders to maintain a backlog, prioritize work, and design solutions that meet the business needs.
- Serve as the product owner for the Core HR product team, including HCM, HR analytics, and security.
- Understand and translate business needs to technical requirements and vice versa.
- Configure Workday HCM to meet business requirements, including business process workflows, tenant settings, and custom reports.
- Stay current with Workday releases and new features, recommending opportunities for improvement and innovation.

**Experience and requirements**:

- Minimum 5 years of proven experience managing Workday HCM, including direct configuration of complex requirements.
- Proficiency in Workday configuration, including business process setup, security, calculated fields, and custom reports.
- Experience working in a complex,