Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Cardinal Group Career•Denver, CO

11h•Onsite

About The Position

The SIT Manager is a high-octane execution specialist. You are responsible for the day-to-day management of SIT workstreams and the direct facilitation of Tiger Team sprints. While the Director manages the "What" and "Who," you own the "How." You act as the connective tissue between corporate strategy and asset-level reality, ensuring that SIT projects are not just "launched," but deeply integrated into the company’s operational fabric. The SIT Manager is someone who has the right aptitude and baseline skillset to grow into a Director of Strategic Initiatives, but who does not currently have the necessary experience to operate at that level.

Requirements

Former operational leader with significant real estate operations exposure.
Adaptive operating style capable of shifting from peace time planning to war time roadblock clearing.
Willingness to spend time cleaning messy spreadsheets or sitting with a Maintenance Team Member to understand a workflow.
Ability to find a way to build a workaround when a standard corporate tool fails.
Ability to challenge assumptions regardless of who they come from.
Ability to lead with data and facts to provide the truth to the team.
Ability to lead through influence and helpfulness, ensuring departmental staff feel supported by your presence, not threatened by it.

Nice To Haves

The SIT Manager is someone who has the right aptitude and baseline skillset to grow into a Director of Strategic Initiatives, but who does not currently have the necessary experience to operate at that level.

Responsibilities

Manage the tactical project timeline for active Tiger Teams.
Identify "blockers" and resolving them efficiently and effectively.
Drive the work with functional owners within the company to produce process maps, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and the training materials required for successful handoff.
Map the "as-is" state of failing processes and design the "to-be" state.
Maintain the "Source of Truth" for initiative tracking, ensuring that OKRs and KRs are updated with real-time field data.
Act as the primary feedback loop between the field and the SIT, identifying operational friction points that corporate leaders might miss.
Spend time in the trenches to facilitate SIT pilots.
Lead focus sessions with departmental staff to unblock specific operational constraints.
Convert strategic theory into "The Cardinal Way" documentation that site-level teams can actually use.
Ensure all documentation is "Board-ready" when a project moves from SIT to a functional owner.
Ensure functional owners have a plan to train the impacted teams on the “how” and maintain the win for the company.