Senior Implementation Manager – Alight Leave Solutions

Role Overview

• 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.
• 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.
• Have experience applying portfolio, program, and project management discipline to drive consistent delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrate ability to synthesize complex delivery information into clear, executive ‑ ready communications.
• Display consulting, influencing and negotiation skills.
• Be comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels, shifting seamlessly between big ‑ picture planning and detailed oversight.

Tech Stack

• PMP

Benefits

• a variety of health coverage options
• wellbeing and support programs
• retirement plans
• vacation and sick leave
• maternity, paternity & adoption leave
• continuing education and training
• several voluntary benefit options