Join a fast-moving enterprise transformation initiative as a hands-on Junior Project Manager supporting a large Workday implementation. This remote role is ideal for someone who enjoys keeping complex projects organized, coordinating across multiple teams, and turning plans into clear action.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the integrated project schedule, milestones, dependencies, and critical path activities.
• Coordinate day-to-day work across HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, Security, Data, Change Management, and implementation partner teams.
• Schedule and lead project meetings, working sessions, status reviews, and decision forums.
• Prepare agendas, document decisions and action items, assign follow-ups, and help ensure tasks move to completion.
• Keep project governance materials current, including status reports, dashboards, RAID logs, and decision logs.
• Track risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, and escalate concerns with clear context and next-step recommendations.
• Monitor workstream progress and help identify conflicts, resource constraints, and cross-functional blockers early.
• Support activities across requirements, design, configuration, data conversion, integrations, testing, training, deployment, and stabilization.
• Coordinate testing timelines, defect tracking, readiness checkpoints, and deliverable reviews.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and external implementation partners to align responsibilities, timelines, and acceptance criteria.
• Help translate discussions into actionable tasks, owners, and due dates.
• Support change control efforts and help assess the impact of scope, schedule, or resource changes.
• Develop concise communications and updates for stakeholders and leadership.
• Maintain organized project records and promote consistent project-management practices.

Skills

• 2+ years of project management or closely related project delivery experience.
• Experience supporting complex, cross-functional technology or enterprise SaaS implementations.
• Experience coordinating internal teams, external implementation partners, and software vendors.
• Strong understanding of project planning, scheduling, dependency management, status reporting, risk management, and meeting facilitation.
• Ability to coordinate multiple functional and technical workstreams at once.
• Skill in synthesizing complex project information into clear updates, decisions, and next steps.
• Proficiency with standard project-management and collaboration tools.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting Workday implementations, deployments, or optimization efforts.
• Familiarity with Workday project phases such as design, configuration, integrations, data conversion, testing, training, cutover, and stabilization.
• Exposure to HR, payroll, finance, or other enterprise business processes.
• Experience with Monday.com and SharePoint.
• PMP, CAPM, Agile, or similar project-management certification.

This opportunity supports a collaborative, inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and everyone is encouraged to contribute their best work. Horizontal is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as core principles, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds who are excited to make an impact.

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