Process Excellence Manager

Location: Hybird Newark NJ 3 Days onsite

Duration: 6 Months

Interview Process: 2-3 RoundsHere Is What You Can Expect on A Typical DayPartner with executive stakeholders to identify, assess, and prioritize opportunities aligned to strategic business objectives. Lead discovery sessions, executive workshops, and working sessions to uncover business challenges, define transformation opportunities, and align stakeholders around a shared vision. Personally lead and contribute to end-to-end process engineering and re-engineering efforts, including current-state assessment, process mapping, root-cause analysis, future-state design, and implementation planning. Work directly with business and functional teams to challenge existing processes, simplify workflows, eliminate friction and non-value-added activities, and design more effective and scalable ways of working. Develop roadmaps that translate enterprise priorities into a sequenced portfolio of initiatives, balancing business value, feasibility, organizational readiness, and risk. Build compelling business cases and executive recommendations supported by quantitative and qualitative analysis. Guide cross-functional teams through the definition of future-state operating models, processes, decision structures, and workforce impacts. Drive alignment across business, technology, data, risk, compliance, and operations teams while rolling up your sleeves to help teams work through complex process and execution challenges. Establish repeatable process-engineering approaches and transfer knowledge and capabilities to the broader team through hands-on coaching and collaboration. Identify dependencies, risks, barriers, and organizational challenges while developing action plans to maintain progress towards business objectives. Collaborate with AI, data, and technology teams to ensure business objectives remain at the center of solution design and implementation decisions. Monitor emerging AI capabilities, industry trends, and competitive developments to continuously inform transformation strategy and opportunity identification. Develop executive communications, strategic narratives, and leadership materials that articulate progress, outcomes, and future opportunities.

The Skills and Expertise You Bring: Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred. Proven management consulting experience is required. Stakeholder and relationship management, including trusted-advisor relationships, executive facilitation, conflict resolution, and influence across a complex matrix. End-to-end process engineering and business process re-engineering, including process diagnostics, current- and future-state design, root-cause analysis, and implementation. Strong financial and business acumen with experience developing business cases, value frameworks, and measurable outcome metrics, benefit ownership, and sustained performance management. Experience in large-scale financial services transformation, with practical experience navigating risk, compliance, controls, operational resilience, data, and legacy technology constraints. Experience facilitating executive-level discussions, workshops, and decision-making forums involving multiple stakeholders with competing priorities. Proven ability to influence senior leaders and build alignment across complex organizational environments. Exceptional communication, storytelling, and synthesis skills, including the ability to communicate complex concepts in a simple and compelling manner. Experience leading multiple concurrent initiatives and managing cross-functional dependencies across business and technology organizations. Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a demonstrated ability to translate data into strategic insights and recommendations. Ability to navigate ambiguity, operate independently, and drive outcomes in fast-paced and evolving environments.