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Dreams drive our motivation. Dreams are our future. The world's dreams, people's dreams, our dreams. Our passion creates ideas that make dreams come alive. Technology and products that were only dreams become reality.\nAll for dreams. Dreams challenge and the Nidec-Group will continue to meet the challenge. For the world's and people's tomorrows; the world's first, the world's best technologies and products; we will continue our part in creating a better society.\nJob Summary\nThe Process Improvement Analyst V is an expert role responsible for defining and driving the organization’s most critical, complex, and enterprise-wide process transformation initiatives. This role operates as a strategic authority in continuous improvement, shaping how improvement work is prioritized, governed, and executed across platforms, functions, and business units. Job Description\nRole OverviewThe 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.\nThis 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nEnterprise Process Transformation Leadership\nLead enterprise-scale, cross-platform process transformation initiatives with material financial, operational, and strategic impact\nPartner with executive leadership to identify, prioritize, and sequence transformational improvement opportunities\nShape end-to-end, future-state operating models aligned with long-term enterprise strategy\nAdvanced Analytics & Systems Thinking\nApply advanced analytical, statistical, and systems-thinking approaches to diagnose complex organizational and process challenges\nIntegrate process, financial, customer, and operational data to identify leverage points for transformation\nDevelop multi-year improvement roadmaps and scenarios informed by enterprise context and risk\nEnd-to-End Value Realization Ownership\nOwn transformational initiatives from vision and design through implementation, sustainment, and cultural embedment\nDefine success metrics, benefits frameworks, and governance mechanisms\nEnsure improvements are institutionalized into operating rhythms, leadership behaviors, and performance management\nContinuous Improvement Strategy & Governance\nDefine and steward enterprise continuous improvement strategy and operating model\nEstablish and evolve improvement standards, methodologies, tools, and governance structures\nInfluence enterprise prioritization and funding of improvement portfolios\nExecutive Advisory & Influence\nServe as a strategic advisor to executive and senior leadership\nTranslate complex analytical and operational insights into clear, compelling executive recommendations\nSupport enterprise transformations such as restructuring, system implementations, or operating-model redesign\nOrganizational Change & Capability Building\nAdvise leaders on change strategy, adoption, and cultural transformation\nAnticipate and mitigate enterprise change risks\nElevate organizational capability in problem solving, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement\nThought Leadership & Mentorship\nMentor Process Improvement Analyst I-IV roles and senior professionals across the enterprise\nAct as a visible role model for analytical rigor, structured problem solving, and improvement discipline\nContribute to the development of future improvement leaders and principal-level professionals\nExternal & Enterprise Benchmarking (as applicable)\nMonitor external best practices, benchmarks, and emerging improvement methodologies\nIntroduce forward-looking ideas to maintain enterprise competitiveness\nRepresent the organization in improvement forums or partnerships as appropriate\nQualifications\nEducation & Experience\nBachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management, Analytics, or related field required\nMaster’s degree (MBA, MS, or equivalent) strongly preferred\nLean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent strongly preferred\nTypically 12-15+ years of experience in process improvement, operational excellence, strategy, or related professional roles\nDemonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale, transformational improvement outcomes\nKnowledge, Skills & Abilities\nExpert-level mastery of Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies\nExceptional analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving capability\nStrong business acumen and understanding of enterprise value creation\nProven ability to influence C-suite and senior leaders without formal authority\nOutstanding executive presence, communication, and facilitation skills\nHigh integrity, judgment, and long-term enterprise mindset\nAdditional Job Details\nProfessional - P5Organizational Impact\nImplements strategic goals for the business unit, as determined by executive leadership, with significant impact on the department and/or job family\nExpert professional individual contributor\nEstablishes 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\nDevelops and provides measurable input into new products, processes, standards and/or operational plans that will have major impact on the achievement of overall results\nIs seen as a subject matter expert within the role’s respective field\nCommunication & Influence\nCommunicates 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\nWorks to influence others to accept business unit’s and/or job family group’s view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches\nRequires ability to communicate with senior leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization\nMay conduct briefings with executive leaders within the business unit and/or job family group\nInnovation & Complexity\nResponsible for improving upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation\nProblems and issues faced are numerous, typically undefined where information is difficult to obtain\nConducts 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\nLeadership & Talent Management\nFrequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise\nTypically responsible for managing large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams.\nMay have direct reports, but generally fewer than three\nKnowledge & Experience\nRequires mastery level knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.\nRequires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience\n• Master’s degree or specialized degree may also be required\nEqual Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec\nNidec 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\nWork Shift Schedule\nFirst Shift (United States of America)No Soliciting\nNidec 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. 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