Senior Consultant, Technology Process Improvement & Optimization
Vizient, Inc · Edina, MN · 2 wk ago
Management$102k–$179k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end process improvement and operational optimization initiatives.
- Conduct current-state assessments and identify strategic opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and user experience.
- Design future-state workflows, operating models, governance structures, and optimization strategies.
- Define key performance indicators, success metrics, and reporting frameworks to measure operational performance and business impact.
- Develop and execute implementation plans, including stabilization and continuous improvement activities.
- Identify opportunities to leverage automation, workflow technologies, and AI-enabled solutions to enhance business processes.
- Partner with technical teams to align operational requirements with system capabilities and technology roadmaps.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops, alignment sessions, and change adoption activities to support successful outcomes.
- Manage project risks, dependencies, escalations, and issue resolution while ensuring delivery objectives are achieved.
- Mentor consultants and associate consultants, sharing best practices, methodologies, and project delivery expertise.
Qualifications
- Relevant degree preferred.
- 5 or more years of relevant experience required.
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- Demonstrated experience leading process improvement, operational excellence, transformation, or consulting initiatives with measurable outcomes.
- Strong facilitation, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with Lean, Agile, Six Sigma, change management, or related continuous improvement methodologies highly preferred.
- Ability to analyze complex business challenges and develop scalable, data-driven solutions.
- Experience leveraging automation, workflow technologies, analytics, or AI-enabled tools to improve operational performance highly preferred.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and lead medium-to-high complexity initiatives with limited oversight.