Senior Vice President, Enterprise Enablement

Who You Are: 

QTS is scaling at speed, and the complexity and interdependence of enterprise initiatives are rising. The Senior Vice President, Enterprise Enablement will build, from a near blank slate, the enterprise capability for transformational change by designing, launching, and owning the delivery and adoption model that defines how initiatives are triaged, prioritized, governed, enabled, and adopted. You enjoy leading and developing a high performing team of program and change professionals, set standards and expectations, coach and allocate resources, and build capabilities to deliver outcomes at scale. 

The Impact You Will Have:  

Serving as the central coordination point for transformation and partnering with senior leaders and cross functional teams, you will align initiatives with strategy, capacity, technology and decision timelines. In this role, you will have the opportunity to partner with business process owners, IT, and other departments to align initiatives with enterprise priorities. The mandate is to create a single transformation engine that chooses what matters most, sequences it intelligently, and sustains adoption to deliver measurable value at scale. 

What You Will Do:  

Develop and implement a robust operating model, providing a structured framework for coordinating cross functional initiatives that emphasizes the advancement of technology 

Lead the design, operation of, and own the continuous evolution of the enterprise delivery and enablement model, ensuring initiatives are evaluated, governed, sequenced, and supported consistently across the growing and scaling organization 

Define and maintain standard governance practices and delivery artifacts to ensure initiatives are executed with discipline, transparency, and consistency 

Establish and lead communication plans and teams to drive proper decision making, escalation paths, accountability, timeliness, and resolution 

Manage the intake and prioritization process across programs, including oversight of inventory, and projects, establish standardized enterprise scoring criteria, value, risk, capacity, compliance, and operate a clear approval workflow 

Operate the enterprise initiative portfolio, providing visibility into priorities, dependencies, risks, capacity, and sequencing 

Establish enterprise standards and governance for initiative delivery and change enablement, accountable for consistent adoption planning, execution, and readiness across initiatives 

Establish, deploy, and enforce standardized project management practices to ensure efficient tracking of benefits, dependencies, and progress 

Communicate, train, and embed new Enterprise Transformation processes across functions, ensuring alignment to governance expectations 

Establish clear adoption readiness criteria and ensure initiatives meet readiness thresholds prior to major milestones and go live 

Lead the enterprise change management and enablement capability through management of a team of Change Partners, ensuring initiatives have clear adoption strategies, stakeholder engagement, training, and readiness plans 

Deploy transformation dashboards to track progress, dependencies, KPIs, risks, and value realization in a centralized, single source of truth 

Establish and run enterprise level operating and executive review cadences that surface progress, risks, dependencies, and adoption readiness for leadership decision making 

Launch monthly operational reviews and quarterly executive reviews with standard agendas and escalation paths 

Ability to travel on average 25% of the time, building in-person connections and developing strong relationships with stakeholders 

What You Will Need to be Successful:  

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Management, Information Systems, or related field, or previous equivalent experience 

Fifteen or more years of experience leading enterprise level delivery, transformation, or enablement efforts across multiple business functions  

Seven or more years of people leadership experience building and developing high performing teams 

Experience operating portfolio-level intake, prioritization, and governance processes 

Experience operating with a strong executive presence with the ability to influence and align senior leaders without direct authority 

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The Skills to Get You There:  

Experience in the real estate development industry is preferred, particularly within large scale, capital intensive, or multi-market environments. 

Proven leadership in enterprise change enablement and driving adoption of cross functional initiatives 

Comfort operating in ambiguity with demonstrated ability to build structure, frameworks, and operating models from scratch, reflecting that Enterprise Transformation is a new capability 

Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and scaling enterprise delivery or operating models 

Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive complex initiatives to successful completion 

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