Director, Business Process Improvement

What You’ll Do

• Lead and mature CFA Institute’s enterprise Business Process Improvement capability, creating a repeatable approach that can scale across the organisation.
• Establish and evolve the frameworks, methodologies, governance and tools used to identify, assess and prioritise process improvement opportunities.
• Lead both current-state analysis and target-state design, helping teams understand where processes are breaking down and what better could look like.
• Deliver and oversee process improvement initiatives that produce measurable improvements in efficiency, quality and organisational performance.
• Define meaningful metrics and KPIs so that improvements and business impact can be clearly demonstrated.
• Lead and develop a team of process improvement professionals, creating clarity, capability and consistency in how the team operates.
• Partner with stakeholders across business units, technology, finance and programme management to identify needs and develop practical solutions.
• Act as a trusted adviser to business teams, helping them work through process challenges rather than prescribing solutions to them.
• Identify opportunities to use automation, data, technology and emerging tools to improve processes and operational effectiveness.
• Build broader understanding of process improvement approaches and continuous improvement thinking across the organisation.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience leading significant business process improvement, operational excellence or process transformation activity with measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience building, establishing or materially scaling a business process improvement capability, framework or operating model.
• Strong practical knowledge of process improvement methodologies and frameworks, such as Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC or BPM.
• Evidence of successfully analysing complex processes, identifying root causes and leading process redesign or optimisation.
• Experience leading and developing people, with the ability to build capability within a small specialist team.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience partnering across multiple business areas in a complex organisation.
• A collaborative and consultative approach: you can challenge constructively, listen carefully and help stakeholders determine what they need rather than simply prescribing an answer.
• The ability to combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, moving comfortably between setting the approach and supporting the work itself.
• Strong analytical skills and experience using data and metrics to measure process performance and improvement outcomes.
• Experience working with technology teams on automation, digital enablement or technology-supported process improvement.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Why Join Us

• Build and shape an enterprise capability that is still developing, rather than inheriting a fully established function.
• Have visible impact across CFA Institute by helping teams improve how work gets done and creating measurable operational improvements.
• Join the senior leadership community within Operations and work across a wide range of business areas.
• Lead a team while remaining close enough to the work to directly influence how process improvement is delivered.
• Partner with stakeholders across the enterprise on a growing portfolio of process improvement opportunities.
• Help establish the frameworks and ways of working that will underpin a scalable, sustainable continuous improvement capability.

Pay

Expected salary range: US - $125,000 - $165,000 per year. Actual salary within the stated range will depend on the individual's experience, qualifications, skills, location, and other job-related factors.

Benefits

• Eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive bonus.
• A 12% employer contribution to a pension plan.
• A comprehensive medical benefits package.
• Health coverage.
• Generous time off.
• Competitive retirement plans.
• Flexible work options.
• Wellbeing and development programs.

About CFA Institute

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