Sr Manager - 401k Implementation

ADP is hiring a Sr. Manager, 401k Implementation.

• Are you looking to grow your career in an agile, dynamic environment with meaningful opportunities to lead?
• Are you a continuous learner who embraces ongoing development, coaching, and growth?
• Are you looking to be yourself in a culture that values equity, inclusion, and belonging and creates space for diverse perspectives and insights?

If so, this may be the opportunity for you.

As Sr. Manager, 401k Implementation, you will lead a team of client-facing implementation associates responsible for the successful onboarding and implementation of 401k plans. This role is highly visible and relationship-driven, with a strong focus on delivering a personalized implementation experience for business sold through ADP’s Elite Sales teams and through financial advisor channels.

You will play a critical leadership role in helping your team deliver strong implementation outcomes while also building trusted relationships with sales partners and other stakeholders. Success in this role requires someone who can lead people well, create clarity in a fast-moving environment, communicate risk and progress effectively, and help drive both execution and continuous improvement.

Every day, you’ll leverage your leadership and implementation expertise to guide your team, manage performance, support escalations, and ensure strong execution across a high-touch client experience.

To thrive in this role, you should be comfortable leading in a client-facing implementation environment where responsiveness, judgment, and communication matter. You know how to build credibility with both the people you lead and the partners you support. You can communicate clearly around status, backlog, risk, and priorities, and you can help a team stay focused while still delivering a more personalized experience.

A little about ADP: We are a global leader in human resources technology, offering the latest AI and machine learning-enhanced payroll, tax, human resources, benefits, and much more. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating an inclusive, down-to-earth culture that welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging.

What you can expect on a typical day:

• →Lead daily activities. You will provide leadership, guidance, and direction to a team of implementation project managers. You will ensure work is prioritized to meet business goals, delivered on time, and executed with a strong focus on quality and client experience.
• →Drive implementation outcomes. You will oversee progress across implementation activity, monitor throughput and turnaround times, help manage backlog and capacity, and support strong results across key success measures including Start/No-Start Rate, client satisfaction, and implementation volume.
• →Manage risk and escalations. You will help your team navigate issues, remove blockers, and communicate clearly around implementation status, risk, and escalations.
• →Build strong partnerships. You will develop and maintain effective working relationships with ADP’s Elite Sales teams and other internal stakeholders, helping create alignment and a high-touch experience for strategically important business.
• →Support advisor-driven business. You will help ensure a personalized and well-managed experience for plans represented by financial advisors, where relationship management and thoughtful execution are especially important.
• →Train and mentor. You will coach team members, identify development needs, support individual development planning, and help build a strong leadership and performance culture across the team.
• →Evaluate staff. You will assess associate performance, complete appraisals, and support accountability through coaching and performance management processes.
• →Contribute to the business. You will participate in change initiatives, process improvements, and other contributions that strengthen the broader organization and help move the business forward.

• You have worked in implementation and/or client service roles for at least 5 years.
• You have led and inspired people for at least 3 years.
• You have experience leading in a client-facing environment where execution, communication, and stakeholder partnership matter.

A college degree is great but not required. What’s more important is having the skills to do the job.

• Leadership experience in a similar implementation or client service environment.
• Experience working with 401k implementation or related retirement-services work.
• Experience partnering closely with sales teams or other high-visibility internal stakeholders.
• Experience leading teams responsible for KPI-driven delivery outcomes.