Overview

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Job Description:

Baker Tilly is looking for a Transformation Manager who can help drive large-scale transformation management efforts across the firm’s top strategic priorities. This role sits within our Enterprise Transformation Office (ETO) and will partner with senior program and firm leadership to support delivery of key initiatives across the firm. The person in this role will be required to work at both the strategic and execution levels and will report to the Associate Director of our Enterprise Transformation Office.

The purpose of the ETO is to provide transformation management support and expertise to our leaders and other stakeholders. The Transformation Manager, in conjunction with the ETO team, will leverage a thorough understanding and depth of experience with industry-standard/best-practice solutioning, program and project management methodologies, processes, and tools to support the successful execution of transformative projects that meet or exceed their stakeholders’ expectations.

They will lead teams consisting of functional and technical internal resources, external contractors, and vendor resources. In this role, they will be responsible for setting clear goals and building and managing thorough program and project plans and timelines.

Additionally, the Transformation Manager will be responsible for modeling program and project management practices across the firm. In doing so, they will be helping people at all levels of the firm learn how to apply the firm’s program/project management practices and develop project management plans appropriate for the scale and scope of projects of various sizes.

We are looking for someone with proven experience as a project manager leading the development and implementation of ambitious, complex, and multifaceted transformation initiatives, including people, process, and technology redesign and behavior change; willingness to jump in and execute at all levels of the work from project strategy to solutioning through implementation. Effective sponsor and stakeholder engagement and communication, and the ability to drive alignment across stakeholder groups, are musts.

Responsibilities

• Manage portfolio governance, status reporting, project and risk management plans, ROI tools, and budget/time tracking.
• Serve as project manager for select projects.
• Drive adoption of project management methods and capacity across the firm, integrating with organizational change management capability development.
• Lead ROI modeling and develop program and project measurement and reporting frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to evolve program and project management best practices to advance the Transformation Office (TO) along its desired maturity path.
• Drive strategic and operational solutioning at the project level, ensuring alignment across stakeholder groups.
• Act as a liaison and trusted partner between the BT program and the Information Technology team to support project progress.
• Support TO leadership in preparing content, agendas, and documentation for reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; emphasis in Business, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a complex organization, including demonstrated success in building and leading high-performing teams and fostering collaboration in a virtual environment; experience in a professional services setting preferred.
• Formal training or certification in project management methodologies and approaches desired (e.g., PMP, CSM).
• Proven project management skills including scoping, planning, monitoring and controlling, issue resolution, and budget management for both IT-focused and business-centered projects.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues to stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Experience with financial modeling, ROI analysis, and development of program metrics and measurement tools.

The compensation range for this role is $107,950 to $204,670. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location.