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We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.\nSummary:\nIn this role, you will lead process improvement and optimization initiatives that enhance operational efficiency, effectiveness, and employee experience across the organization. You will partner with internal stakeholders across product, engineering, and operations to assess current-state operations, identify improvement opportunities, and design scalable technology solutions that align business needs with operational goals. Leveraging data, analytics, automation, workflow technologies, and AI-enabled capabilities, you will drive measurable business outcomes and support transformation efforts. As a trusted advisor, you will facilitate stakeholder alignment, provide data-driven recommendations, and guide teams through implementation and change. You will oversee initiatives from assessment through adoption and continuous improvement while mentoring team members and advancing operational excellence across the organization.\nResponsibilities:\nLead end-to-end process improvement and operational optimization initiatives.\nConduct current-state assessments and identify strategic opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and user experience.\nDesign future-state workflows, operating models, governance structures, and optimization strategies.\nDefine key performance indicators, success metrics, and reporting frameworks to measure operational performance and business impact.\nDevelop and execute implementation plans, including stabilization and continuous improvement activities.\nIdentify opportunities to leverage automation, workflow technologies, and AI-enabled solutions to enhance business processes.\nPartner with technical teams to align operational requirements with system capabilities and technology roadmaps.\nFacilitate stakeholder workshops, alignment sessions, and change adoption activities to support successful outcomes.\nManage project risks, dependencies, escalations, and issue resolution while ensuring delivery objectives are achieved.\nMentor consultants and associate consultants, sharing best practices, methodologies, and project delivery expertise.\nQualifications:\nRelevant degree preferred.\n5 or more years of relevant experience required.\nBachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.\nDemonstrated experience leading process improvement, operational excellence, transformation, or consulting initiatives with measurable outcomes.\nStrong facilitation, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.\nExperience with Lean, Agile, Six Sigma, change management, or related continuous improvement methodologies highly preferred.\nAbility to analyze complex business challenges and develop scalable, data-driven solutions.\nExperience leveraging automation, workflow technologies, analytics, or AI-enabled tools to improve operational performance highly preferred.\nProven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and lead medium-to-high complexity initiatives with limited oversight.\nEstimated Hiring Range:\nAt Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00.This position is also incentive eligible.\nVizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! 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