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Job Summary

The 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

• Role Overview
• 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

Professional – P5

• 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, p