Workday Principal Consultant

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

At RPI we pride ourselves on being a team in the truest sense. We foster a collaborative working environment and are available to lend a hand where needed. Our approach focuses on results, but we enjoy thinking outside the box and breaking down preconceived notions. Our atmosphere is professional and relaxed. Success is measured by client satisfaction, ease to work with, and performance.

Workday Principal Consultant - Senior Delivery Leader,  Financial Management & Supply Chain 

At a glace: 

A senior, client-facing consulting role focused on helping organizations improve Workday Financial Management and Supply Chain Management after go-live. 

Position Summary  

RPI Consultants' Workday Principal Consultant is a senior consulting and delivery leader responsible for successful client outcomes across complex Workday engagements. The role is a trusted advisor to client leaders and a senior functional resource for multidisciplinary delivery teams. 

The role focuses on Workday Financial Management and Supply Chain Management for organizations already live on Workday. The Principal Consultant works directly with clients to understand business processes, assess how Workday is being used, recommend practical improvements, and guide assessments, optimization efforts, advisory engagements, and targeted projects. 

What You'll Own 

• Lead Workday consulting work: Serve as the senior functional lead on assessments, optimization efforts, advisory engagements, and targeted post-production projects, staying close to the analysis, recommendations, and solution decisions
• Support engagement performance: Work with project and engagement leaders to monitor scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and client satisfaction, identifying Workday-specific issues early and help the team resolve them
• Advise client leaders: Translate finance, procurement, and supply chain priorities into practical Workday recommendations, explaining options and tradeoffs clearly to business and technology stakeholders
• Connect functional and technical requirements: Identify implications across business process configuration, integrations, data, reporting, security, and platform capabilities
• Support presales scoping: Work with RPI's presales team to define the delivery approach, scoping details, assumptions, dependencies, and work effort estimate 

• 10+ years of enterprise application or ERP consulting experience, including substantial Workday consulting responsibility and a record of success in senior client-facing roles
• Strong Workday application and business-process knowledge across Financial Management and Supply Chain Management, with deep expertise in at least one area and the ability to turn business needs into practical recommendations
• Hands-on experience leading Workday assessments, optimization efforts, post-production support, targeted projects, or comparable engagements
• Technical breadth to recognize dependencies involving business process configuration, integrations, data, reporting, security, and platform capabilities. Hands-on integration development is not required
• Experience defining project approaches, scoping details, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and work effort estimates in collaboration with presales and delivery teams
• Executive presence, sound judgment, and referenceable Workday client outcomes, preferably in healthcare or another regulated industry
• Ability to travel as client needs require

Why Join RPI 

RPI combines the resources of an established ERP consulting firm with a flat organization and direct access to company leaders. This role offers meaningful influence over our Workday services while remaining focused on senior client work. This is an opportunity to join the ground floor of an emerging Workday practice with a firm that has nearly 30 years of expertise in ERP implementation.

We Offer,

• Established support: Work with experienced sales, operations, and delivery teams backed by a 25-year ERP consulting business
• Influence without leaving delivery: Help shape Workday services and quality standards while continuing to lead challenging client work

All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

RPI Consultants is headquartered in Baltimore since 1999.

"RPI Consultants, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. As a federal contractor, we take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity and all candidates are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.