"What has struck us about Focus Cloud is their attention to detail, the level of understanding of our requirements and their knowledge of the Workday ecosystem."
- HR Operations Director
The relationship started with a single vacancy.
A global end-user organisation was preparing to roll out Workday HCM to approximately 8,000 employees, but one critical role had remained unfilled despite working with several recruitment agencies. Focus Cloud was brought in to solve that immediate hiring challenge, a decision that led to a wider partnership supporting the implementation across multiple Workday disciplines.
Project Highlights
- Supported a global Workday HCM implementation for approximately 8,000 employees
- Successfully recruited six specialist Workday professionals
- Filled a business-critical HRIS Programme Manager position after other agencies were unsuccessful
- Delivered talent across HRIS, Integrations, Payroll, Data and PMO
- Filled six of nine vacancies while competing against multiple recruitment agencies
The Challenge
The initial brief focused on one role: an experienced HRIS Programme Manager who could provide the leadership and Workday expertise needed to support a major implementation.
It was a difficult position to fill. The client needed someone with proven Workday implementation experience, the ability to work across technical and business teams, and the credibility to support a complex global programme. After several agencies failed to identify the right candidate, there was growing pressure to find a recruitment partner with genuine knowledge of the Workday ecosystem.
Our Approach
Rather than treating the assignment as a standalone vacancy, Focus Cloud invested time in understanding the wider implementation programme and the challenges the successful candidate would be expected to solve.
Using our specialist Workday network, we carried out a targeted search for experienced professionals whose implementation background, leadership capability and technical expertise closely matched the client's requirements. Following a detailed assessment process, we secured the HRIS Programme Manager the programme needed.
That successful appointment built confidence in our approach. As implementation progressed, the client expanded the partnership, asking Focus Cloud to support additional recruitment across Integrations, Payroll, Data and PMO, enabling hiring to remain consistent across the wider programme.
The Outcome
What began as a single difficult hire evolved into a trusted recruitment partnership supporting multiple areas of the Workday implementation.
The engagement delivered:
- Six successful Workday placements across the implementation
- A business-critical HRIS Programme Manager secured after previous recruitment efforts had been unsuccessful
- Recruitment across HRIS, Integrations, Payroll, Data and PMO
- Six of nine vacancies filled while competing against multiple recruitment agencies
- A specialist recruitment partner supporting the continued growth of the implementation team
By solving the programme's most challenging recruitment requirement first, Focus Cloud established a partnership built on specialist Workday expertise, helping the client assemble the team needed to deliver a successful global Workday HCM implementation.
