Sr. Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Description

• Lead regular OKR progress reviews with the Executive Leadership Team and facilitate decisions related to OKR changes.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve risks that could limit the successful completion of objectives.
• In collaboration with executive and functional leaders, lead the process to define company key results and related team OKRs.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve risks to the successful completion of OKRs.
• Create OKR progress reports for our parent company and company-wide audience.
• Define, document, and implement processes that improve and scale our strategic initiative management discipline.
• Effectively manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Adjust and adapt project plans and scope in response to new inputs, learnings, and issues, always informed by the strategic objective.
• Document all company and related team OKRs in our system of record.
• Define, document, and implementing processes that improve and scale our OKR discipline.
• Partner with all OKR owners to ensure regular status updates are entered in our system of record.
• Partner with executives, functional leaders, and subject matter experts to define goals, timelines, and desired outcomes for company high-level strategic initiatives.
• Partner with Finance and other systems experts to ensure reporting is built to track achievement toward OKR targets.
• Lead regular and ad hoc meetings to inspect and drive progress toward defined milestones and end-state objectives.
• Provide frequent updates to executives and stakeholders on the status of strategic initiatives, including reporting on key metrics.
• As our OKR practice leader, provide support to teams on their implementation of OKR processes.
• Build and apply extensive knowledge of the business to draft necessary project components and identify and engage needed stakeholders and project participants.
• Communicate effectively with executives, functional leaders, and cross-functional team members.
• Team members are expected to maintain a dedicated and ergonomically appropriate remote workspace.
• Build robust, agile plans to define and track the work necessary to achieve initiative objectives.

Requirements

• Quickly build expert-level knowledge of business strategy, systems, processes, teams, and roles.
• Navigate effectively through ambiguity and technical complexity to proactively identify issues and solutions.
• The physical activities of this position include frequent sitting, telephone communication, and working on a computer for extended periods. Visual acuity is required to perform activities close to the eyes.
• Analytical and strategic thinker who relentlessly pursues results.
• Experience leading an OKR or similar program preferred.
• Highly organized, detail oriented, and demonstrate consistent follow-through.
• Team members who live within commuting distance of one of our office locations (Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky or Atlanta, Georgia) are expected to work in a hybrid capacity, with regular in-office presence as determined by the team or department.
• Experience design highly effective, repeatable processes, and structures to manage and execute work.
• Excellent relationship-builder and collaborator who inspires action through relational rather than positional authority.
• Possess 8+ years in roles of increasing responsibility in a corporate environment.
• All team members must reside and perform their work within the United States.

Benefits

• Team members who live outside of commuting distance will be designated as remote team members. While not required to report to an office regularly, remote team members may be expected to travel to a designated office location occasionally for team meetings, training, or other business needs with reasonable notice.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance