Senior Transformation Manager

At Curriculum Associates (CA), we believe a diverse team leads to diversity in thinking, making our products better for teachers and students. If you read this job description, feel energized by what you see here, and believe you could bring passion and commitment to the role, but you aren’t sure you meet every qualification, please apply! Above all, we are looking for the right person!

As a key member of CA"s Strategic Initiatives 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 Strategic Initiatives Office is a new team leading enterprise-scale programs that transform the way we do our work. Reporting into the Associate Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, 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 

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 familiarit