Senior Legal, Risk & Governance Project Lead

Ulta Beauty, Inc.; Bolingbrook (IL); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health, dental, vision, life and DISA/

Bonus plan eligibility

Job summary

Ulta Beauty’s LR&G team seeks a senior project manager to lead strategic initiatives and drive cross-functional delivery across the enterprise. You will orchestrate complex programs, build scalable processes, and partner with senior leadership to align objectives with risk and compliance priorities.

You have 7+ years in project management and a proven track record delivering high-impact projects in fast-paced environments, with strong stakeholder influence and change-management capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; MBA a plus.
• 7+ years of experience in project management, process improvement, change management and/or strategic project planning & execution
• Demonstrated experience leading teams to execute highly complex initiatives of significant scope, scale and risk.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to complete quantitative and qualitative analysis and apply strategic frameworks to drive alignment and decision-making.
• Highly collaborative with track record of effective cross-functional leadership and proven ability to influence at all levels.
• Enterprise thinker with ability to ‘connect the dots.’
• Bias for action and execution; Results-oriented.
• Excellent time management, planning, project management and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills, including ability to share ideas and information across diverse audiences to drive to business decisions. Ability to synthesize clearly and simplify the complex.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to shape, elevate and move planning forward.
• Highest level of integrity and good judgment.
• Travel may be required (<10% of time).

Responsibilities

• Create and facilitate senior leader review mechanisms of LR&G strategic goals and initiatives
• Project manages the execution of large scale, highly complex LR&G initiatives, serving as a strategic and executional partner to LR&G senior leadership.
• Drive strategic execution, program management, integration and change management in support of strategic projects across the organization.
• Lead the identification of and the portfolio management of Legal, Risk Governance strategic and innovation projects
• Lead and facilitate cross-functional teams in defining and tracking project goals, deliverables, milestones, resources, budget and schedule.
• Identify and manage critical interdependencies, determine areas of risk, and provide the level of executional leadership to successfully deliver projects.
• Support prioritizing of workstreams and track progress against objectives.
• Provide timely communications to project leadership and key stakeholders on overall status and roadmap for key strategic programs.
• Support development of project management capability in LR&G and in alignment with enterprise best practices, project governance frameworks and processes and toolkits which will be applied throughout the organization.
• Support change management efforts at Ulta Beauty on critical complex programs and initiatives, designing and executing change strategies within and across key enterprise initiatives

Skills

Project management

Process improvement

Change management

Strategic planning

Execution

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree (MBA a plus)

Tools

PMP certification

Lean Six Sigma certification

Job description

Ulta Beauty’s LR&G team seeks a senior project manager to lead strategic initiatives and drive cross-functional delivery across the enterprise. You will orchestrate complex programs, build scalable processes, and partner with senior leadership to align objectives with risk and compliance priorities.

You have 7+ years in project management and a proven track record delivering high-impact projects in fast-paced environments, with strong stakeholder influence and change-management capabilities.