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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of experience leading complex, cross-functional projects or programs from initiation through implementation and transition.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business objectives into integrated plans, governance, milestones, dependencies, decision points, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong command of project risk, issue, dependency, scope, resource, and change control practices.
• The ability to diagnose, simplify, and structure problems and solutions while having command of "the details"
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level status reporting, decision framing, and facilitation.
• Proficiency with common project planning, collaboration, reporting, and presentation tools.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities throughout their work; taking ownership of challenges, selflessly supporting their colleagues, and setting the standard for quality in their deliverables.

Nice To Haves

• PMP, Agile, Scrum, Prosci or comparable project and change management certification or training.
• Experience with organizational change management, implementation readiness, adoption planning, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Experience working across global teams, with clients, third-party vendors, or in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional execution across GSMS. Align leaders, teams, and workstreams across functional and organizational boundaries, reinforce accountability, and sustain momentum toward shared outcomes.
• Operate effectively through ambiguity. Bring a hands-on, adaptable approach to evolving environments, take on varied responsibilities when needed, and collaborate effectively with senior leaders, technical teams, and subject-matter experts.
• Shape the delivery approach. Serve as a consultative partner to sponsors and functional leaders, helping establish the appropriate roles, governance, processes, and tools to support effective project execution and successful outcomes.
• Lead project governance and stakeholder engagement. Plan and facilitate effective project meetings with internal and external stakeholders, guide productive discussion, communicate progress and risks, document decisions, and ensure actions have clear owners and follow-through. Take ownership, follow through, and respectfully hold others to agreed commitments.
• Build and maintain the integrated plan. Connect business, technology, vendor, data, operational, client and change activities into one delivery view with clear milestones, dependencies, owners, and commitments.
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies. Identify and proactively manage delivery risks, dependencies, and potential roadblocks; drive mitigation and resolution; and escalate issues when leadership attention or decisions are required.
• Enable timely decisions. Frame options, impacts, tradeoffs, and recommendations so sponsors, and accountable owners can make informed decisions quickly.
• Provide executive visibility. Develop and maintain concise, executive-level reporting that provides a fact-based view of initiative status, progress against goals, risks, dependencies, decisions, readiness, and performance measures.
• Drive change readiness and transition. Assess stakeholder and operational impacts; coordinate change, communications, readiness, and adoption activities; and ensure clear ownership for implementation, handoff, and closeout.
• Provide leadership through influence and expertise. Guide and coach junior team members, model strong delivery practices, and provide thoughtful direction and feedback without formal people-management responsibility.

Benefits

• Bonus Eligible
• All Colorado employees receive paid sick leave in compliance with the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act and other legally required benefits, as applicable.