Vail Resorts

Prcpl Analyst: Change Management

Vail Resorts$93K — $133K *
Vail, CO 81657In-Person
Hospitality & Recreation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 5-7 years in change management or business transformation
  • Strong understanding of change management principles and methodologies
  • Proven ability to navigate complex project management in a global organization
  • Exceptional communication skills for diverse stakeholder interactions
  • Demonstrated emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills
  • A proactive, self-driven work ethic with agility in approach

Responsibilities

  • Lead and integrate change management strategies for Mountain Operations
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance change adoption and proficiency
  • Create practical adoption plans for leaders and managers
  • Analyze feedback and operational signals to mitigate execution risks
  • Define and monitor adoption measures for continuous improvement

Benefits

  • Year-round employment with full-time hours
  • Opportunity for annual bonus based on performance
  • Engaging work environment within a dynamic operations team
  • Access to state-of-the-art resources and transformation initiatives
  • Supportive company culture that values employee input and collaboration
Full Job Description
Job Summary:

Reporting to the VP, Mountain Operations COE, the Senior Manager, Change Management is responsible for designing and executing end-to-end change strategies for Mountain Operations, including Centers of Excellence initiatives, transformation priorities, and operational changes impacting resorts. To be successful in this role, you must be agile -- able to transition quickly between strategic design and effective execution. Success requires strong operational judgment, stakeholder influence, execution discipline, and the ability to translate strategy into simple, repeatable routines that improve adoption across resort types. This person will need to approach change and transformation with an enterprise mindset and the ability to differentiate effective change approaches based on the unique needs of our different employee groups and various lines of business.

Job Specifications:

  • Starting Wage: $93,409.00 -$133,441.00 +annual bonus
  • Employment Type: Year Round
  • Shift Type: Full Time hours available
  • Minimum Age: At least 18 years of age
  • Housing Availability: No


Job Responsibilities:
  • Lead Mountain Division Change Management and ensure COE initiatives, enterprise programs, and transformation efforts are integrated, sequenced, and successfully adopted across resorts through leader-led change capability. Lead the design and execution of change strategies that support large-scale transformation to drive differentiated business outcomes for our mountain operations.
  • Work across stakeholders and teams to strategize, design, manage, and support change to drive faster adoption, higher ultimate utilization of changes, and proficiency with the changes that impact employees who must use the changes in their daily work.
  • Build adoption plans that improve leader and manager readiness to execute priority changes, with a focus on ensuring solutions are deployed in a way that is clear, practical and executable for resorts
  • Use resort feedback, adoption data, and operational signals to identify execution risks, surface barriers, and trigger targeted support or intervention where adoption is not progressing. Design and execute engagement plans across various channels to drive awareness and desire, and build the skills and abilities needed to sustain long term change across stakeholder groups.
  • Define adoption measures, monitor execution progress, identify where solutions are not landing, and feed insights back to drive continuous improvements. Provide thought partnership to team members and mountain operations senior leaders, actively sharing opinions and feedback regarding the direction of change efforts.

Knowledge and Skills
  • Change Management: Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools and applies them pragmatically in service of adoption and execution
  • Adoption and Execution Discipline: Able to move from strategy to action by defining practical deployment plans, leader routines, adoption measures, and follow-through mechanisms.
  • Operational Judgment: Distinguishes signal from noise, understands what matters most to resort execution, and makes practical tradeoffs in ambiguous environments.
  • Business and Ops Acumen: Grounds recommendations in how work gets done in the field, and how change impacts leaders, managers, and frontline teams.
  • Stakeholder Influence: Builds credibility quickly, aligns action without formal authority, sets clear expectations, and holds partners accountable to agreed outcomes.
  • Field-Ready Communication: Simplifies complex work into clear messages, leader talking points, action plans, and tools that help operational teams execute.
  • Agility and Learning Orientation: Adjusts approach based on feedback, balances continuity with evolution, and improves the system over time.
  • Integrated Planning: Connects work across COEs, Training, Operational Insights, Workforce Management, HR, Communications, and resort stakeholders to clear action and outcomes
  • Project Management: Ability to manage multiple projects at once while navigating a complex and matrixed global organization. Highly organized and detail oriented.
  • Emotional Intelligence: Excellent interpersonal skills and comfort interacting with individuals across and at all levels of the organization. Demonstrated commitment to understanding and incorporating the perspectives of a diverse set of stakeholders. Comfortable navigating tension and recognizing risk.
  • Self-Driven: Initiative and ability to work independently, meeting challenges with a can-do attitude.
  • Microsoft Office: PowerPoint skills a must; responsible for building visually digestible slides and content that bring stakeholders on a journey.


Job Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 5-7 years of experience in change management, business transformation, operations enablement, HR or organizational effectiveness


The expected pay range is $93,409.00 -$133,441.00 +annual bonus. This is the pay range we reasonably expect to pay for this position. Individual compensation decisions are based on a variety of factors.

In completing this application, and when submitting related documentation, applicants may redact information that identifies their age, date of birth, and/or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

We follow all federal, state, and local laws including restrictions on child/minor labor. Minors hired into this position will not be asked or permitted to engage in any activities restricted to adult workers.

Requisition ID 517555
Reference Date: 09/15/2026
Job Code Function: Talent Strategy

About Vail Resorts

Vail Resorts is a mountain resort company that operates ski resorts and hotels in North America. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. Vail Resorts' ski resorts include Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Park City, Heavenly, Northstar, Kirkwood, Stowe, Okemo, Mount Sunapee, and Whistler Blackcomb. The company also operates hotels and other lodging properties in these locations. Vail Resorts has a market capitalization of over $10 billion and generated over $2 billion in revenue in 2020.
Learn more about Vail Resorts
Size
6,100 employees
Market Cap
$9.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$7 million
Founded
1992
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$1.5 billion
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