Nexteer Automotive

Process Optimization Specialist

Nexteer Automotive$70K — $95K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, Business Analytics, or Process Improvement.
  • Hands-on experience with CRM platforms (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce).
  • Proven process streamlining and automation implementation skills.
  • Familiarity with AI tools for sales operations and data analysis.
  • Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement and user adoption.

Responsibilities

  • Map existing Sales processes to identify inefficiencies and data quality issues.
  • Design workflows and SOPs to enhance operational accuracy and efficiency.
  • Create governance structures for process documentation and change management.
  • Automate report generation using CRM data for recurring deliverables.
  • Develop reusable slides and templates to enhance productivity and version control.
  • Enhance CRM data integrity through validations and monitoring routines.
  • Build dashboards that provide actionable insights from sales activity.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for remote work with occasional travel to Saginaw facility.
  • Access to advanced tools like Microsoft Power Platform.
  • Engagement in high-impact process improvement initiatives.
  • Chance to work closely with both operational and executive teams.
  • Professional development opportunities in data analytics and automation.
Full Job Description
Process Optimization Specialist

About the role

The Process Optimization Specialist works with sales leadership and operations to streamline processes, improve data accuracy, and automate repeatable workflows. This role focuses on process optimization, reporting automation, and CRM data quality and integration to help the Sales team operate more efficiently.

Success in this role also requires driving user adoption. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator and change agent who can engage both operational and executive stakeholders, prioritize high-impact initiatives, and translate technical solutions into clear business value. The selected candidate should anticipate travel to our Saginaw facility a few times a month.

Key Responsibilities

Sales process improvement & operational efficiency:
  • Map current Sales operational processes and identify bottlenecks, rework, and data quality or control gaps.
  • Design standardized workflows, templates, and SOPs that reduce cycle time and improve accuracy.
  • Build lightweight governance: prioritization, documentation, and change management to enable scalable, well controlled process and system improvements.

Automate manual work to produce presentations & recurring materials:
  • Automate creation of recurring deliverables by pulling structured data from CRM and related sources.
  • Develop reusable slide templates and auto-population routines to minimize manual effort and improve version control and accuracy.
  • Create "single source of truth" reporting views that feed these materials, including dashboards and automated refreshes.

CRM inputs, data integrity, and user adoption
  • Improve CRM data quality through validations, guided entry, standard definitions, and monitoring routines.
  • Identify root causes of poor data (process gaps vs. tool friction vs. training needs) and implement fixes.
  • Build job aids and run enablement sessions to improve consistent CRM/SBS usage.

CRM tool/system integration & automation
  • Support and continuously improve integrations between CRM and key tools.
  • Partner with IT and process owners to document requirements, coordinate testing, manage change control, and support implementation plans.
  • Leverage Microsoft Power Platform capabilities (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI) where appropriate for scalable automation and self-service tools.


Data activation & actionable insights
  • Build dashboards, reports, and alerts that translate CRM and sales activity into insights for decision-making.
  • Establish consistent KPI definitions and reporting cadence.


Required Qualifications
  • 3+ years' experience in Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, Sales Systems, Business Analytics, Process Improvement, or Automation-focused roles.
  • Hands-on experience with CRM platforms (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics 365 / Salesforce / similar), including data structures, reporting, and user workflows.
  • Proven experience streamlining processes and implementing automations that reduce manual effort.
  • Familiarity with AI tools and their practical application to sales operations workflows, including use cases in data analysis, process automation, and decision support.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills: ability to translate Sales processes into clear requirements, work effectively across working-level and executive audiences, and drive user adoption through enablement, and change management


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting CRM-integrated projects, including integrations between sales technologies.
  • Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate / Power Apps / Power BI).
  • SQL and/or strong analytics tooling experience (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) used to produce dashboards and insights.
  • Experience with ETL pipeline development, data architecture design, and building out scalable analytics infrastructure is highly valued. Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric (or comparable modern data platforms) is a plus.
  • Hands-on experience building AI-specific pipelines or solutions - such as designing and deploying multi-agent frameworks, integrating LLM APIs into business workflows, building prompt engineering pipelines, or connecting AI tooling to enterprise data sources.
  • Process improvement certification/experience (Lean, Six Sigma) and strong documentation habits. Familiarity with BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) for process mapping and documentation is a plus.


Education Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, or related.

About Nexteer Automotive

Nexteer Automotive is a global automotive supplier that specializes in developing and manufacturing steering and driveline systems. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Saginaw, Michigan. Nexteer Automotive has a presence in over 50 countries and has partnerships with many of the world's leading automakers. The company's products include electric power steering systems, hydraulic power steering systems, and driveline systems. Nexteer Automotive is committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact, including the use of renewable energy sources and the reduction of waste and emissions.
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1906
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