Full Job Description
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
Work Shift Schedule
First Shift (United States of America)
No Soliciting
Nidec 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. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.
