Specialist People Systems Implementation Management

Description

Join the exciting part of our People Services & AI department! People Services & AI supports employees and managers in more than 50 countries from three hubs. The Systems Configuration Team ensures that our global HRIS landscape — across both Workday and ServiceNow — evolves in a structured, scalable, and user‑focused way. This role focuses on expert Workday and ServiceNow configuration and support, release enablement, and functional guidance across our active licenses. It touches any area where configuration, module ownership, requirement clarification, or stakeholder alignment is needed.

About GEA

• GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

• Why join GEA

• GEA is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will therefore receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, world view, national origin, genetics, disability, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other protected characteristic required by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities are welcome and will be given special consideration if they are equally qualified.

Your profile and qualifications

• Several years of hands‑on Workday configuration experience in an international environment.

• Experience with reporting, cross‑module logic, or complex business process configuration in Workday.

• Experience in digital process design, including translating business needs into scalable, automated workflows.

• Broad functional understanding across multiple Workday modules.

• Experience analyzing releases, validating impacts, and supporting feature adoption.

• Familiarity with ServiceNow HRSD module and configuration or willingness to learn.

• Strong skills in requirement refinement, stakeholder alignment, and solution design.

• Analytical, structured, and solution‑oriented working style.

• Confident and clear communicator across stakeholder levels.

• Fluent in English.

• Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence).

• Familiarity with structured testing and project work.

• SQL knowledge or willingness to learn.

• German language skills.

• Degree in Business Administration, HRIS, Information Systems, HR, Computer Science, or a related field.

Your responsibilities and tasks

• Act as the primary functional counterpart for selected Workday and ServiceNow areas.

• Run demos on new features, evaluate new license opportunities, and support roadmap discussions.

• Assess change requests, clarify requirements with stakeholders, and translate them into scalable configuration approaches.

• Configure across our active Workday modules and support configuration changes in ServiceNow.

• Document configuration in a structured, reusable, and compliant way.

• Ensure consistency across modules, especially where cross‑module or cross‑platform logic is involved.

• Analyze Workday releases and identify relevant impacts across active modules.

• Validate new features, prepare test scenarios, and enable stakeholders for upcoming changes.

• Support decision‑making around adoption, deprecations, and required adjustments.

• Manage configurations that span multiple Workday modules (shared business processes, rules, event-driven logic).

• Support structural changes, reorganizations, and broader system updates across Workday and ServiceNow.

• Translate project requirements into configuration changes across multiple functional areas.

• Participate in project testing, cutover validation, and readiness activities.

• Ensure that configuration decisions align with architectural guidelines and system design principles.

• Collaborate closely with Process Owners, People Services teams, HR Tech teams, and other internal/external partners.

• Prepare stakeholders for testing, release changes, and new features.

• Contribute to harmonization and standardization across regions and teams.