Project Manager, Transformation

About GroupHEALTH

At GroupHEALTH, we're proud of the work we do, but it's how we do it that truly sets us apart. We're a fast-moving, ever-evolving, stable organization with deep roots and a bold vision: to transform the way Canadians experience benefits. We combine agility with long-term stability to create meaningful impact.

Here, you'll find more than just a job. You'll find a purpose-driven, people-first culture where kindness, collaboration, and curiosity thrive. Whether you've been here fifteen years or fifteen days, you'll notice right away, our people are genuinely invested in one another's success and delivering exceptional experiences to our clients and plan members.

About The Role

The Project Manager, Transformation will lead complex, cross-functional business transformation projects from initiation through close-out, with a focus on enterprise outcomes, business readiness, stakeholder alignment, and adoption. This role is embedded in the Transformation Office and will work directly alongside the Executive Leadership Team to translate enterprise priorities into structured initiatives, support timely decisions, and ensure executive-sponsored work has clear ownership, governance, and momentum.

This is a hybrid role based out of our Surrey, BC office, working a combination of days in office and at home.

What To Expect In Your First 3 Months

First 30 Days:

• Complete a full portfolio inventory of all assigned Transformation Office initiatives, including sponsor, scope, status, timeline, key milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions required, and expected business outcomes.
• Build effective working relationships with Executive Leadership Team members and initiative sponsors, ensuring expectations, decision points, risks, and required follow-up are clearly understood and actively managed.

First 60 Days:

• Implement consistent project governance routines for assigned initiatives, including status updates, RAID tracking, decision logs, action follow-up, and escalation pathways.
• Validate priority project plans by confirming near-termin milestones, resource needs, dependencies, and key decisions with sponsors and core project teams.
• Assess current Transformation Office project practices against the emerging enterprise project management framework and identify areas for alignment, simplification, or flexibility.

First 90 Days:

• Produce an initial view of cross-project dependencies, sequencing risks, stakeholder impacts, and potential change saturation across assigned Transformation-led work.
• Establish sponsor confidence by demonstrating early value with Executive Leadership Team members, sponsors, and stakeholders through clarity, structure, timely follow-up, and visible momentum.

What You'll Do

Transformation Office Project Delivery

• Lead assigned Transformation Office initiatives from initiation through close-out, including M&A due diligence coordination, joint venture stand-ups, product and service launches, executive reporting, and other enterprise-sponsored transformation priorities
• Translate executive and enterprise priorities into practical project plans, workstreams, timelines, deliverables, and near-term actions
• Manage day-to-day project execution, including project plans, status updates, RAID tracking, decision logs, action follow-up, and escalation
• Coordinate across business functions, IT, vendors, subject matter experts, and project teams to resolve blockers and maintain delivery momentum

Executive Stakeholder Support and Governance

• Work directly alongside Executive Leadership Team members, executive sponsors, and business leaders to clarify priorities, decision points, risks, dependencies, and required follow-up
• Prepare concise, decision-oriented project updates, briefing materials, and governance reporting for the Chief Transformation Officer, executive sponsors, steering groups, and applicable governance forums
• Facilitate sponsor check-ins, working sessions, project meetings, and decision discussions that are focused, productive, and action-oriented
• Influence without direct authority by creating clarity, accountability, timely follow-through, and alignment across executive-sponsored priorities

Business Readiness, Change, and Adoption

• Partner with the Change and Communications teams to build business readiness, stakeholder impacts, communications, training, and adoption considerations into project plans and delivery routines
• Work with sponsors, business owners, Change, and Communications to sequence initiatives in a way the organization can absorb
• Identify change risks, readiness gaps, adoption barriers early, escalating where executive action or sponsor support is required
• Maintain awareness of enterprise