Manager, Leadership Excellence

Manager, Leadership Excellence

As a Manager in the Office of Leadership Excellence, you will manage the day-to-day operations, delivery, and coordination of the technology products, platforms, and tools that support Leadership lifecycle processes for 8,000+ Partners, Principals, Managing Directors, and Leaders.

Your primary focus will be Elevate and Vantage - Deloitte's in-house performance management platforms - with additional responsibilities across other Leadership Excellence products and initiatives.

You will serve as the operational bridge between business stakeholders and delivery teams, working closely with Leadership Excellence technology leads and technical delivery teams to ensure business needs are met.

Recruiting for this role ends on September 4, 2026.

Work you'll do

Program Management, Governance, and Execution


* Manage day-to-day platform operations across Leadership Excellence technology, with a primary focus on performance management tools.


* Coordinate system deployments with ITS, managing risk, timing, and communications to help minimize disruption during critical talent cycles.


* Lead user acceptance testing (UAT), coordinate with business testers, and provide sign-off before production releases.


* Participate in product demonstrations to validate that delivered functionality meets business requirements and user expectations.


* Serve as the first point of contact for critical system issues, provide real-time updates to leadership, and coordinate resolution with technical teams.


* Manage ongoing platform maintenance and enhancement requests, working with technology teams to evolve systems as business needs shift.


* Conduct cost-benefit analyses to support prioritization of development items and platform enhancements.


* Manage against budget while proactively escalating issues, ideas, and business needs.


* Contribute to broader Leadership Excellence initiatives as priorities emerge, including process improvement, transformation, and analytics workstreams.


* Prepare progress reports, status updates, and leadership materials as needed.

Stakeholder Coordination and Communications


* Partner with Leadership Excellence business teams to gather requirements and translate business needs into functional specifications.


* Manage governance and change control processes, facilitate sign-offs from Leadership Excellence leaders, and coordinate across stakeholders with competing priorities.


* Develop and maintain end-user documentation, training materials, and system guides, and support user adoption through training and ongoing support.


* Support change management and communications for platform updates, new feature rollouts, and process changes in partnership with Leadership Excellence communications resources.


* Support adoption planning as new tools and platforms are introduced across the Leadership Excellence portfolio.

A successful candidate would posses...