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Senior Implementation Manager
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Location Atlanta, Georgia
- Category Strategy & Transformation
- Job ID R25_0000043467
- Date posted 12/11/2025
- Brand NAPA
- Status Full time
- Job Type Hybrid
Role Overview
The Implementation Manager leads the delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives by creating structure, driving momentum, and ensuring outcomes are achieved with quality and consistency. Reporting to a Director, this role operates as a senior individual contributor who partners across functions to move work from concept to reality.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of assigned initiatives with full ownership for timeline, scope, risk, and results.
- Translate initiative goals into clear milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and sequencing.
- Drive cross-functional accountability without direct authority.
- Anticipate and manage risks, changes, and decision points throughout execution.
- Maintain consistent delivery cadence, governance, and status communication.
- Facilitate alignment across stakeholders when priorities, scope, or timing conflict.
- Ensure solutions are implemented, adopted, and stabilized, not just delivered.
- Support change readiness through implementation planning, communications coordination, and manager enablement.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of delivery standards and tools.
- Partner closely with the Director to calibrate priorities, capacity, and sequencing.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Technology, HR, or related field.
- 6–10 years of experience leading cross-functional initiative delivery.
- Experience operating as a senior individual contributor.
- Strong ability to influence without authority.
- Exceptional organization, prioritization, and communication skills.
- Comfort navigating shifting priorities and stakeholder complexity.
- Strong business judgment and decision-making capabilities.
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting transformation, system rollouts, operating model changes, or enterprise initiatives.
- Background in matrixed or multi-location environments.
- Exposure to People, Technology, Operations, or Enterprise Programs.
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