Workday Digital Product Owner - Time

As a Workday Digital Product Owner - Time within our Digital People Services team, you'll drive the end-to-end digital product lifecycle of Time Tracking solutions across Sanofi's global footprint, ensuring reliable, compliant platforms that directly impact tens of thousands of employees worldwide. Ready to get started?

You'll join Sanofi's Digital Delivery & Operations unit, a key enabler of our People & Culture strategy. Operating within a portfolio-based model, you'll manage diverse solutions including Workday Time Tracking and a number of regional and local systems. This role sits at the critical intersection of HR operations and digital technology, where accurate time tracking and compliant absence management express our commitment to our people and legal obligations across complex, multi-country environments.

Main responsibilities:

• Own product decisions for Time Tracking applications, including budget planning, service requests, and management across the global portfolio
• Configure and maintain the Workday Time Tracking module hands-on, including building time templates, managing time calculations and creating advanced calculated fields. Knowledge of payroll earning/deductions breakdowns for multiple countries is a big plus
• Manage stakeholder relationships as primary contact between HR, Legal, Payroll, and Digital teams, ensuring clear communication and effective prioritization
• Oversee vendor partnerships with third-party time and attendance providers, managing SLAs, performance reviews, and contract negotiations
• Ensure compliance with local working time legislation, labor laws, collective agreements, and data privacy requirements (including GDPR) across all supported countries
• Lead change management for system upgrades, regulatory changes, and process transformations, including release notes, testing coordination, and adoption monitoring
• Drive operational excellence through incident management, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives across integrated HR platforms

About you

• Experience: Proven background in HR technology, time and attendance systems, or digital product management in multinational environments, with demonstrated experience managing Time Tracking solutions at regional or global scale
• WD Pro certification: Workday Time Tracking certification (and its prerequisite, Core HCM certification) - this is an essential requirement. Noncertified candidates that can demonstrate significant years of experience strictly in the WD Time Tracking field will be considered. Candidates with General HCM experience and only occasional Time Tracking configuration work will be discarded
• Technical expertise: At least 1 full-cycle Time Tracking implementation project where the candidate served as an independent configuration consultant/subject matter expert. Strong knowledge of Workday HCM integrations and understanding of time-to-payroll data flows, across multiple countries if possible
• Configuration skills: At least one year of hands-on experience as Tier 3 (L3) Support specifically within the Workday Time Tracking domain
• Stakeholder management: Ability to engage and influence diverse stakeholders across HR, Legal, Finance, and IT in matrix organizations, with experience managing third-party vendors and SLAs
• Compliance knowledge: Familiarity with multi-country working time complexity, including local directives, shift regulations, collective agreements, and data privacy frameworks
• Product management skills: Experience with Agile methodologies, backlog management, and end-to-end product lifecycle oversight
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, or Business Administration. Workday Core HCM Admin and Time Tracking certifications required
• Languages: Strong English communication skills for global collaboration. Working French language is a bonus.

The salary range for this position is: €49.600,00 - €74.400,00

Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.