ERP Project Manager

Change Manager to embed change management activities directly into project planning and execution. This is a highly visible role requiring the ability to drive project success through a complex higher education environment while managing relationships at all levels of the organization. The ideal candidate brings experience leading ERP implementations including, but not limited to Workday, PeopleSoft, Banner, etc., advanced skills in stakeholder and risk management, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams through uncertainty.

Department/Division Overview:

The Workday Strategy Team is responsible for the continuous improvement of the Workday system to maximize ROI on the university’s significant investment. This includes full lifecycle implementations, optimization projects, and organizational change management related to system changes. The team drives cross-functional collaboration, enforces operational governance, and owns the long-term system roadmap. Partnering closely with functional departments, technical teams, senior leadership, and other campus stakeholders to prioritize enhancements and ensure alignment in support of Denison’s strategic priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Leads full lifecycle Workday module implementations, from initiation and planning through deployment and post-production support.
• Oversees all aspects of implementation, coordinating resources across functional and technical workstreams, integrations, reporting, and data conversion activities.
• Develops and manages all appropriate project management documents, including project charters, plans, resource estimates, project schedule, test logs, RAIDQ, and status reports.
• Orchestrates cutover planning and execution, including go-live readiness assessments and hypercare support models.
• Plays a key role in the development and monitoring of the project budget, making recommendations for additional spending as required to promote project success.
• Facilitates requirements-gathering to ensure alignment between SMEs and implementation partner.
• Enforces project governance, ensuring decisions are made at the correct governance level, documented, and socialized as required.
• Maintains comprehensive risk register and develops strategies to mitigate active project risks. Escalates as needed to the Director and Executive Leadership.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for the implementation partner and other external vendors as needed.
• Fosters a team-based, mission-driven environment that emphasizes trust, mutual respect, open communication, and creative thinking.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with internal and external project resources.
• Resolves resource conflicts through established methods and escalates as needed to mitigate impact on project quality, timeline, and team culture.
• Regularly communicates project status to internal and external teams, university stakeholders, and Executive Leadership.
• Presents project status to Steering Committee and facilitates decisions on escalated issues.
• Partners with the ERP Change Manager on development of the change management strategy and campuswide communication plan.
• Collaborates to maintain the project’s public and internal web presence.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree

5+ years of hands-on project management experience with at least 1 cloud-based enterprise

Preferred Requirements:

Master’s Degree

1 or more PMI certifications (PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, etc), Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, ITIL

10+ years of hands-on project management experience

Why Choose Denison?

Denison University is a leading, fully residential liberal arts college in Granville, Ohio, located just outside the Columbus metro area. Established in 1831, Denison blends a rigorous academic foundation with an award-winning approach to student mentorship and career readiness. With a vibrant campus community of 2,400 students and around 2,000 employees, Denison offers employees a supportive, forward-thinking environment dedicated to educational excellence and professional growth.

Denison provides a number of staff-focused benefits, with some highlights:

• 10% contribution to your retirement
• 22 vacation days
• 3 floating holidays
• Paid campus closure from Christmas to New Years
• Free parking and gym membership
• Free classes for employees
• Full tuition coverage for dependents

Want to learn more about us? Visit Denison.edu for more information.

Salary: Up to 125,000

Organization

As one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, Denison offers an authentic education in the fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Founded in 1831, Denison is one of the earliest colleges to be established in the old “Northwest Territory,” west of the Allegheny Mountains and north of the Ohio River. Denison is located in Granville, Ohio; 27 miles east of Columbus, the state capital.

Innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in the pursuit of knowledge and the cultivation of independent thinking. And because Denison is a residential college, students are deeply engaged as citizens of the campus community. They learn from one another in a rigorous academic setting, but also in rich social, cultural and political environments.

As a residential undergraduate liberal arts college, Denison is among those places that have been called “distinctively American” in their contribution to higher education worldwide. In fact, it is one of a select number of institutions that today defines the type.

Confident in the distinction of its graduates and advantaged by unusual resources, Denison has pointedly resisted the tendency in higher education to add layers of graduate degrees, professional schools, and service functions beyond the scope of baccalaureate education of the highest order. Entering its 177th year, Denison has maintained a fully residential campus based upon the well-tested premise that learning flourishes in community.

Denison selectively admits successful, confident, and motivated students who seek to take advantage of highly participatory learning within classroom, laboratory, and studio and who expect to learn and grow through their investment in the challenges and opportunities of college life. The college attracts matriculants from across the country and more than three dozen nations. Denison engages students with outstanding professors in small classes that encourage men and women to take a high degree of personal responsibility for learning. Students pursue a major field of study selected from 39 areas offered by 28 disciplinary departments and interdisciplinary programs in the divisions of Natural Science, Humanities, Social Science, and Fine Arts as well as complete a sequence of General Education and a personalized curriculum of electives from across the college.

A Denison education is not just for a living but for a life. Denison graduates are educated to be curious, resourceful, and reflective. They are expected to begin a life of learning at Denison, not complete it. They are well prepared for the rapidly changing world of the 21st century.

Nothing defines a Denison education more than the mutually enriching relationships that develop between students and faculty. The heart of the college is a full-time faculty of almost 200. These men and women, who hold the most advanced degrees in their fields, are selected on the basis of pedagogical and scholarly ability and are encouraged to be innovative teachers whose continuing growth in their discipline through active scholarship allows them to be among the best at their craft. They look forward to the challenge and stimulation of their students even as they seek to draw the best efforts from them. Many Denison students come to regard professors as mentors, who frequently oversee students' independent scholarly projects.

Denison’s faculty is committed to undergraduate education. As teacher-scholar-advisers, their principal responsibility is effective teaching informed by the best scholarship. Faculty members place a priority on working closely with students, interactive learning, and partnerships with students in original research. Denison’s low student/faculty ratio allows for close supervision of independent research and collaborative work in small groups and classes.

At Denison, men and women learn and grow in community, and the residential character of the campus is more than a convenience but a way of engaging the full student body in a shared enterprise. The college actively seeks academically superior students who bring diverse talents, interests, backgrounds, and experiences, believing that out of the classroom as well as within learning takes place by sharing, questioning, and growing together. Denison students have unusual opportunities to participate in the arts, in athletics and recreation, in service to others beyond the campus, in student organizational life, and in campus governance.