Workday Peakon Principal Consultant

Overview

In this role you drive the design, configuration, and delivery of Workday Peakon Employee Voice solutions to help organizations measure and improve employee engagement. You lead workshops, configure surveys and dashboards, and translate insights into actionable improvement programs. You mentor consultants, support business development, and coordinate cross-functional workstreams across large Peakon implementations. You operate as a trusted advisor, shaping listening strategies and workforce analytics to influence engagement, retention, and performance.

Pay / Benefits

• remote work
• global opportunities
• collaborative culture
• learning opportunities

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for Workday Peakon Employee Voice and guide engagement strategies
• Lead client workshops and discovery sessions to define listening programs aligned to business objectives
• Design and configure Peakon solutions (surveys, confidentiality, dashboards, driver analysis, action planning)
• Advise on engagement measurement, sentiment analysis, and organizational improvement initiatives
• Lead Peakon workstreams on medium to large Workday implementations, managing decisions, risks, and dependencies
• Partner with HCM, Talent, Learning, Change Management, Reporting, and Employee Experience teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Support testing, deployment, cutover, and post-go-live transition activities
• Provide guidance on survey design, drivers, manager enablement, and action planning best practices
• Mentor consultants and analysts with coaching and quality reviews
• Support business development including estimations, proposals, demonstrations, and customer presentations
• Contribute to practice development through training, assets, and methodology enhancements
• Maintain expertise in Peakon functionality, employee engagement trends, and workforce analytics innovations

Key requirements

• 5+ years of Workday implementation experience
• Experience leading Workday Peakon, HCM, Talent, or Employee Experience workstreams on end-to-end implementations
• Active Workday Peakon Employee Voice Certification preferred
• Strong understanding of employee engagement, listening programmes, and change management
• Experience configuring surveys, dashboards, driver analysis, and action planning
• Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution design, testing, and deployment
• Experience supporting pre-sales activities including estimations, proposals, and solution presentations
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills
• Ability to mentor team members and provide functional leadership
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Eligible for UK SC Clearance and able to travel on-site as needed
• Minimal travel required, with on-site willingness
• UK residency for last five years required for clearance

• stakeholder management
• facilitation
• communication
• Workday Peakon Employee Voice
• HCM
• Talent

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