Senior Transformation Manager

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

Senior Transformation Manager

As a key member of CA’s Major Projects Office, you'll play a key role in supporting CA’s transformation initiatives and mission to be an agile, change fit organization. The Senior Transformation Manager supports highly complex, cross-functional, and critical projects across the organization, servicing as a Transformation lead from project conception through implementation. The role directly impacts the benefit realization, value creation, ROI (return on investment), and achievement of results and outcomes for key projects across the organization.  

The Major Projects Office is a new team leading enterprise-scale programs that transform the way we do our work. Reporting into the Director, Business Transformation, you'll have an opportunity to bring your experience and expertise to bear to help shape the growth of this new function, ensuring we're ready to lead CA's most complex, innovative, and impactful projects.

The impact you'll have:

• Independently collaborate with business leaders to complete early-stage project definition activities 

• Manage overall project plans, track key milestones and detect, escalate and address transformation/integration risks by analyzing and recommending potential solutions 

• Implement CA’s Transformation framework to lead transformation activities within key projects, including business process documentation and optimization, future-state definition, gap analysis, stakeholder analysis, etc. 

• Track and manage governance, confidentiality commitments, and clearances for the project  

• Support communications activities for key projects, including managing a communication plan, stakeholder engagement tracking, and change management interventions  

• Facilitate cross-functional partnership by highlighting interdependencies and areas of collaboration, identifying synergies and downstream impacts  

• Partner with functional leads and change leaders across the organization to develop and implement strategic recommendations to support operational excellence and business model enhancements  

• Facilitate and participate in targeted content deep-dive sessions to enable problem-solving  

• Serve as an expert voice leading the continual improvement of CA’s transformation and change management frameworks and approach based on project takeaways and learnings

• Leverage AI-enabled tools and insights to drive efficient, effective business practices and inform the strategic deployment of AI within transformation initiatives across business functions, supporting process optimization, decision-making, and scalable change

What we're looking for:  

• 8+ years of experience working in a transformation, project management, project management, and/or change management capacity for large-scale projects

• High emotional intelligence and ability to manage cross-functional and executive-level stakeholders through complex changes 

• Strong strategic mindset and business acumen with sound judgment and problem-solving capabilities 

• Strong familiarity with transformation methodologies, including digital transformation approaches 

• Project management experience, including familiarity with project management tools  

• Change management experience, including familiarity with research-backed change management practices and frameworks 

• Ability to guide executive-level decision-making, facilitating conversations, building consensus, and translating problem statements and business goals into clearly defined projects and initiatives 

• Ability to identify and escalate risks and challenges to project and organizational leadership and recommend solutions 

• Ability to identify and mitigate downstream or future risks in complex, sometimes ambiguous projects 

• Ability to build s