Senior Manager, Product Lead - Workday

Senior Manager - Product Lead

The Senior Manager - Product Lead, is responsible for defining and executing the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a portfolio of digital products and platforms. This role partners closely with business, technology, design, data, and operations leaders to deliver high-impact, customer-centric solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. The Product Lead core responsibilities include:

• Product Strategy & Roadmap
• Product Delivery & Execution
• Operational Excellence
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Vendor & Risk Management
• Subject Matter Expertise in HR Technology Domain

At Otsuka, we defy limitation, so that others can too. We have an unwavering belief in doing more. In transcending expectations. In going above and beyond—under any circumstances—for patients, families, providers, and for each other. It's this deep-rooted dedication that drives us to uncover answers to complex, underserved medical needs, so that patients can push past the limitations of their disease and achieve more than they thought was possible each and every day. We believe that the bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity. We are doing everything in our power to live up to our mission of creating new products for better health worldwide in two important therapeutic categories: neuroscience and nephrology.

The Senior Manager role will drive the operational and program delivery support across technology initiatives and solutions within their platform area. The position will be responsible for overseeing and contributing to the technical execution of the roadmap as well as maintaining and enhancing the existing production solution in their platform domain. Core responsibilities include but not limited to the following:

• Solution/Application Architecture
• Application Ownership
• Business System Management

Qualifications Knowledge/ Experience and Skills: Mandatory Skills Workday functional/technical Minimum 6 years of IT solution experience in functional and integrations development role in Workday Technology Deep knowledge of Workday HCM: business processes, configuration patterns, security domains/BP policies, data model. Hands-on proficiency with EIB, Core Connectors (CCB/CCW), Data Transport (DT), Workday Studio (design/review), BIRT, and Workday Extend. Advanced reporting (Advanced/Matrix/Composite) and Calculated Fields (conditional, lookup, multi-dataset). XSLT 3.0 expertise for complex transformations within Studio/BIRT. Ability to interpret integration mapping documents, schemas, and REST/SOAP API payloads (JSON/XML) with effective dating and reconciliation logic. Oversight of Workday IAM (role design, SoD, access reviews, audit evidence). Enterprise integration & cloud Working technical knowledge of integration strategies across Cloud services and IaaS/PaaS/SaaS. Familiarity with AWS (or equivalent cloud solution) patterns: S3 landing/clean zones & versioning, Lambda transformations, SNS/SQS events, API Gateway, Secrets Manager; or equivalent on Azure/GCP. Experience with middleware (e.g., MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Logic Apps) and event-driven and API-based designs. Delivery & operations Proven success delivering new capabilities using Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) and SDLC practices and managing complex portfolios with PPM methodologies. Strong grasp of Agile/Scrum, change control, release management, and testing cycles (unit, regression, UAT). Experience with ITIL service processes (incident, problem, change) and SLA/OLA management. Collaboration & global experience Experience working with globally distributed business and IT teams, especially in Japan, EU, and India. Superior presentation skills and executive presence; able to influence, drive action and strategy, and interface effectively with senior leadership. Business analysis excellence in process design, documentation, and problem-solving activities. Organizational change management, issues & conflict management, and business-technology innovation/transformation experience. Analytical & soft skills Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities; adept at multi-factor root cause analysis across configuration, security, data, and integrations. Clear written and verbal communication; able to translate technical detail into business-friendly language. Travel Ability to travel 10–20%, based on business needs.