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Job Summary

Job Description

The Process Improvement Analyst V leads the highest-impact improvement efforts, often spanning multiple business units, platforms, or regions. The role goes beyond project and portfolio leadership to include enterprise methodology stewardship, improvement strategy shaping, and institutional capability building.

This position does not include formal people-management responsibility. Leadership is exercised through influence, thought leadership, governance, mentorship, and strategic partnership. The role typically reports to a Vice President of Operational Excellence, Strategy, Transformation, or equivalent executive sponsor.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Process Transformation Leadership

Lead enterprise-scale, cross-platform process transformation initiatives with material financial, operational, and strategic impact

Partner with executive leadership to identify, prioritize, and sequence transformational improvement opportunities

Shape end-to-end, future-state operating models aligned with long-term enterprise strategy

Advanced Analytics & Systems Thinking

Apply advanced analytical, statistical, and systems-thinking approaches to diagnose complex organizational and process challenges

Integrate process, financial, customer, and operational data to identify leverage points for transformation

Develop multi-year improvement roadmaps and scenarios informed by enterprise context and risk

End-to-End Value Realization Ownership

Own transformational initiatives from vision and design through implementation, sustainment, and cultural embedment

Define success metrics, benefits frameworks, and governance mechanisms

Ensure improvements are institutionalized into operating rhythms, leadership behaviors, and performance management

Continuous Improvement Strategy & Governance

Define and steward enterprise continuous improvement strategy and operating model

Establish and evolve improvement standards, methodologies, tools, and governance structures

Influence enterprise prioritization and funding of improvement portfolios

Executive Advisory & Influence

Serve as a strategic advisor to executive and senior leadership

Translate complex analytical and operational insights into clear, compelling executive recommendations

Support enterprise transformations such as restructuring, system implementations, or operating-model redesign

Organizational Change & Capability Building

Advise leaders on change strategy, adoption, and cultural transformation

Anticipate and mitigate enterprise change risks

Elevate organizational capability in problem solving, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement

Thought Leadership & Mentorship

Mentor Process Improvement Analyst I-IV roles and senior professionals across the enterprise

Act as a visible role model for analytical rigor, structured problem solving, and improvement discipline

Contribute to the development of future improvement leaders and principal-level professionals

External & Enterprise Benchmarking (as applicable)

Monitor external best practices, benchmarks, and emerging improvement methodologies

Introduce forward-looking ideas to maintain enterprise competitiveness

Represent the organization in improvement forums or partnerships as appropriate

Qualifications

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management, Analytics, or related field required

Master’s degree (MBA, MS, or equivalent) strongly preferred

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent strongly preferred

Typically 12-15+ years of experience in process improvement, operational excellence, strategy, or related professional roles

Demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale, transformational improvement outcomes

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Expert-level mastery of Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies

Exceptional analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving capability

Strong business acumen and understanding of enterprise value creation

Proven ability to influence C-suite and senior leaders without formal authority

Outstanding executive presence, communication, and facilitation skills

High integrity, judgment, and long-term enterprise mindset

Additional Job Details

Organizational Impact

• Implements strategic goals for the business unit, as determined by executive leadership, with significant impact on the department and/or job family
• Expert professional individual contributor
• Establishes operational plans for job area with short-to mid-term impact on results (e.g., 1-3 years); works independently on own or others’ complex projects/assignments and typically is responsible for entire projects or processes that span outside of own team
• Develops and provides measurable input into new products, processes, standards and/or operational plans that will have major impact on the achievement of overall results
• Is seen as a subject matter expert within the role’s respective field

Communication & Influence

• Communicates with parties within and outside of own department and/or job family, and typically has responsibilities for communicating with parties external to the organization, which may include customers or vendors
• Works to influence others to accept business unit’s and/or job family group’s view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches
• Requires ability to communicate with senior leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization
• May conduct briefings with executive leaders within the business unit and/or job family group

Innovation & Complexity

• Responsible for improving upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation
• Problems and issues faced are numerous, typically undefined where information is difficult to obtain
• Conducts extensive investigation to understand root cause of problems. Problems span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across business units and/or job family groups

Leadership & Talent Management

• Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise
• Typically responsible for managing large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams.
• May have direct reports, but generally fewer than three

Knowledge & Experience

• Requires mastery level knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience

• Master’s degree or specialized degree may also be required

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec

Nidec is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, genetic information, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following website: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

Work Shift Schedule

No Soliciting

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.