Globalization Strategist

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**About the Team**
This Workmate plays a pivotal role in guiding Workday’s international product strategies as we grow to become a $10B company. This role is responsible for driving both geographic expansion and international product strategy for Workday’s key markets and industries. You and the Globalisation team will develop and present business cases for international market expansion as well as global product and solution strategies in existing geographic markets. Further, you will work closely with regional leadership and product experts across the organisation to ensure these strategies are appropriately included in product plans across the Workday portfolio.

**About the Role**
- Design and develop strategies to align and expand Workday’s industry-leading product portfolio to new markets and market-segments within the EMEA region.
- Drive the EMEA product strategy function responsible for performing market, competitive, and product-market fit analyses, and formulating, codifying, and ensuring operationalisation of our globalisation platform and global product strategies across Workday’s product portfolio.
- Partner with internal cross-functional teams including Sales, Pre-Sales, Services, Localisation, Product Strategists, Product Management, and Technology to gather, document, and champion country
- and region-specific market and feature requirements.
- Identify, assess, and quantify industry market opportunities, appropriately prioritise, and develop business cases for selected strategies.
- Together with product strategists and architects, be responsible for identifying, devising and communicating a comprehensive strategy for product globalisation in your region.
- Partner with product managers and strategists to report project and program statuses to key stakeholders in your region.
- Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives to ensure Workday’s globalisation processes are best-in-class.
- You will work closely with peers and stakeholders across the EMEA region (primarily in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom) and some travel will be necessary.

**About You**

**Basic Qualifications**:

- 7+ years’ experience in the area(s) of enterprise software strategy, product management, solutions delivery, client services, or non-technical program management including 5+ years’ developing and executing programs with significant corporate impact and 2+ years’ experience gathering and documenting product requirements.

**Other Qualifications**:

- Deep understanding of consulting frameworks and methodologies especially in the areas of go-to-market strategy, product market fit assessment, or requirements gathering/MVP definition.
- Excellent English-language written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical abilities, including experience with market analysis, forecasting, expansion planning, strategy execution, and business case development.
- Able to influence others using data and other evidence-based persuasive tools.
- Prior experience in ERP software feature localisation is desirable.
- Prior experience in ERP go-to-market strategy is desirable.
- Knowledge and understanding of software development methodologies and life cycles is desirable.

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