Workday Functional and Product Support Specialist

Workday Functional and Product support

About the Job:

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career—with countless opportunities to explore, build meaningful connections, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible.

Position Overview

Sanofi is seeking a Workday Functional and Product support to join our Digital P&C / People Services team. This is a critical role responsible for the functional ownership, optimization, and governance of the Workday Core HCM and Security framework across a complex global environment.

You will lead the design, configuration, and continuous improvement of Workday Core HCM while ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable access control models that support Sanofi’s global and local HR operations. This position partners closely with HR, IT, Compliance, and Security stakeholders to deliver a seamless, secure employee and manager experience aligned to Sanofi’s strategic objectives.

Main Responsibilities

Workday HCM Configuration & Optimization

• Lead the design, configuration, and enhancement of Workday Core HCM and security ensuring best-in-class integration with Compensation, Benefits, Absence, Time Tracking, and other downstream systems.
• Analyze and remediate existing Workday tenant configurations to improve global consistency, data quality, system performance, scalability, and user experience.
• Drive harmonization of global core data models while supporting localization requirements for countries and regions.
• Manage security impacts arising from new HCM configurations, releases, acquisitions, and organizational changes.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Requirements Management

• Partner with global and local HR, Payroll, IT, and Security stakeholders to gather, analyze, and clarify complex functional and security-related requirements.
• Translate business and compliance needs into effective Workday HCM and Security solutions while balancing flexibility, risk, and standardization.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders on Workday design decisions, tradeoffs, and best practices.

Innovation, Releases & Continuous Improvement

• Stay up to date with Workday releases, features, and best practices, proactively identifying opportunities to improve functionality and controls.
• Lead impact assessments and testing related to Workday releases affecting HCM and Security.
• Support adoption of new features that enhance governance, automation, and employee experience.

Tenant Management & Environment Governance

• Act as the functional owner of the Workday tenant, ensuring stability, consistency, and performance across all environments (Production, Sandbox, Preview, and Implementation tenants).
• Govern tenant-wide configuration standards, naming conventions, transport rules, and promotion processes.
• Coordinate and oversee Workday release management, including preview testing, impact assessments, regression testing, and go‑live readiness.
• Manage tenant dependencies across HCM, Security, integrations, and downstream systems.
• Ensure proper usage of tenants for testing, training, and deployment in line with internal controls and best practices.

Compliance, Controls & Documentation

• Ensure all configurations and security models comply with regulatory requirements, internal audit standards, and Sanofi governance policies.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for HCM configurations, security roles, domains, business processes, and controls.
• Support audits by providing clear traceability of access models, approvals, and system controls.

Experience

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Workday HCM, HRIS product management, or digital HR transformation in a global organization.
• Proven experience across functional workstreams, PMO governance, vendor/partner management, and executive stakeholder engagement. 
• Familiarity with Workday configuration governance and environment/tenant strategies; able to peer coach technical teams (Architect/Config leads) while holding functional accountability. 

Technical Expertise

• Deep expertise in Workday HCM configuration and tenant remediation.
• Strong practical knowledge of Workday Security, including domains, business process security, roles, and access-based controls.
• Workday HCM Pro certification preferred; Workday Security experience or certification is a strong plus.
• Experience integrating Workday with local HRIS and third-party systems is highly desirable.

Domain & Business Knowledge

• Strong understanding of core HR data models, employee lifecycle processes, and localization requirements in global organizations.
• Knowledge of HR compliance, data privacy principles, and access governance concepts.
• Ability to translate complex HR and security needs into pragmatic system solutions.

Advanced Skills

• Agile mindset and ways of working
• Project management and planning
• Application design and system integration
• Security and compliance of computerized systems
• Strong business acumen
• Collaboration and stakeholder management
• Ability to communicate complexity with clarity and simplicity
• Fluent in English

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
• Opportunity to work in an international environment, collaborating with diverse business teams and vendors, working in a dynamic team, and fully empowered to propose and implement innovative ideas. 

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

Experience Level

Senior Level