Senior Implementation Manager-Alight Leave Solutions

Amazing Opportunity and Great Place to Work!

Do you have experience managing large-scale enterprise implementations?

Our story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

Our Values:

Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com. 

About the Role

Responsible for the delivery of all self-insured Disability or Leave Administration services for Alight Leave Solutions and SaaS clients. Has full accountability to bring the right combination of talent, tools and technology to successfully implement a client’s benefit program.

Responsibilities

• Leading enterprise‑scale, multi‑workstream implementations, coordinating cross‑functional teams across business, product, engineering, vendors, and offshore/shared services.
• Driving project execution from inception through delivery and support hand off.
• Managing necessary resources and ensuring they are assigned, engaged and know their roles and responsibilities.
• Developing and maintaining project artifacts and conducting regular reviews to ensure all participants are aware of progress, roadblocks and risks.
• Communicating proactively, clearly and frequently to the development and product stakeholders, executives, and to clients as appropriate.
• Applying enterprise project management methodologies (e.g., hybrid Agile/Waterfall) to manage complex dependencies, phased releases, and parallel deployments.
• Configuring Workday Financials, including internal control compliance for Spend Approver and Finance HR Process Approver security roles.
• Developing and maintaining integrated master plans that align timelines, scope, resources, and financials across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• Managing portfolio‑level risks, interdependencies, and change impacts, escalating systemic issues with data‑driven recommendations.
• Contributing to and influencing enterprise delivery frameworks, tooling, and metrics to improve predictability, scalability, and quality. Identifying cross‑program trends and systemic gaps; partner with leadership to define corrective actions and process innovations.

Requirements

• Have a Bachelor’s in a business, management and/or technical field or equivalent work experience required. Hold Project management (i.e. PMP) or equivalent certification.
• 8+ years of experience managing large scale projects within health benefits projects.
• Have In depth understanding of the implementation processes and industry standard expectations and methods.
• Have deep domain knowledge of leave of absence, self-insured Disability programs or other health benefits domain.
• Have Experience working with large functional teams (e.g. Product, Engineering, Claim Delivery, Offshore teams, Shared Services).
• Demonstrate experience managing enterprise‑scale programs with multiple concurrent projects, dependencies, and stakeholders.
• Display ability to influence outcomes in matrixed, large‑organization environments without direct authority.