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# Transition Manager

- **Company:** Software Specialists, Inc.
- **Location:** Beaverton, OR, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft PowerPoint, SAP (Applications)
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.ssipeople.com/jobs/transition-manager-98148/#applynow

## About the Role

* Minimum 10 years of transition management, change management, or organizational readiness experience on enterprise programs.
 * Proven experience preparing large user populations for system or process change, including global or multi-region rollouts.
 * Strong communication, writing, editing, and audience-specific messaging skills, along with excellent PowerPoint skills and a design background.
 * Experience building training content and enablement programs from scratch, and ability to work independently with senior stakeholders, suppliers, and cross-functional teams.
 * Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience is required.
 * Change management certification such as Prosci or ADKAR is recommended, and experience with SAP programs is a plus.

## Description

Job Summary: We are supporting a leading procurement-focused transformation initiative that is shaping how employees across the business adopt new processes and ways of working. This opportunity is ideal for a skilled professional who can build readiness, training, and communications plans that help large user groups prepare for change and move confidently toward go-live., * Build and execute transition and readiness plans, including stakeholder analysis, impact assessments, and adoption measures.

 * Identify affected user groups, define what changes for each audience, and prepare them ahead of go-live.
 * Develop training content, job aids, enablement materials, executive-ready presentations, and weekly communications.
 * Track readiness, coordinate testing-cycle participation, escalate risks early, and support go-live readiness across required geo releases.


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