Product Specialist- Global Payroll Center of Excellence

Global Payroll Center Of Excellence (Coe) Specialist

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The Global Payroll Center Of Excellence (Coe) Specialist is a tenured product specialist seller who acts as a critical advisor on high-value deals for the new Workday GO Global Payroll Motions. Leveraging deep expertise in global payroll, this role supports both Customer Base and Net New Core Account Executives (AEs) to differentiate and sell Workday's Global Payroll solution. You will be instrumental in the Discovery & Technical Evaluation stage of the sales process and handle complex payroll inquiries.

Key Responsibilities

As a specialist in the CoE, you will be responsible for the following core areas:

• Deal Execution & Technical Expertise: Lead the payroll sales process: conduct deep discovery/technical evaluation, handle technical objections, pitch the Workday GO solution, and define the scope of work for implementation.
• Evangelism & Enablement: Serve as the Global Payroll Subject Matter Expert (SME), enabling sales teams on the solution's technical aspects, and developing essential sales collateral and playbooks.

Strategy & Product Feedback: Advise Core Account Executives (AEs) on deal execution strategy using a solution-based selling approach and provide commercially-minded feedback to Product teams.