As a Process Engineering and Value Delivery – Transformation Process Lead, you will drive the development, implementation, and adherence to processes that improve workflow and reduce operational bottlenecks. By applying Lean methodology, you will continuously improve processes, eliminate waste, and increase efficiency. You will also be responsible for promoting technical collaboration among team members, engaging with stakeholders to uncover business opportunities through lean methods, and coordinating process planning sessions. You will partner closely with Business Owners, Engineering PM leads, and Change Management leads on a continuous basis to provide data and inputs to ensure the most impactful business scenarios are prioritized accordingly as part of the Azure Cloud Supply Chain’s journey to building a world-class supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Utilize lean methodology to drive process analysis and design efficiency into our supply chain transformation processes working with business stakeholders and engineering.
• Work across various project teams to identify and drive the needed conversations and workshops to close any gaps in the as-is and to-be process documentation. Develop summaries of changes associated with project deliverables that can enable the change plans.
• Work with business SMEs to identify process measurements that align with future state processes for assigned functional area. Utilize process monitoring and mining techniques to ensure that project outcomes are quantified and meet expectations.
• Collaborating with process leads across value streams to identify and address project dependencies and process impacts.
• Build trusted partnerships across business owners, engineering program managers, architecture team and change leads to drive portfolio alignment and lean decision making.
• Research and educate internal partners on industry leading / best in class solutions that can be used to inform the design of the future state, intelligent supply chain.
• Perform business process mining using Power Automate Process Mining tool and document the variations, bottlenecks, and influencing factors.
• Review with stakeholders and identify improvement opportunities driven by data analysis.

Other:

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4 years’ experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Experience in managing value stream, cross-functional and/or cross-team transformation projects.
• Experience in data analysis. This includes extraction of data from Azure SQL and analysis of trends, bottlenecks, and critical paths.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience driving process optimization with the Define, Measure, Analyze, Implement, Control (DMAIC) Lean process methodology - Six Sigma Black Belt.
• Experience developing and implementing process mining and monitoring using common industry methods.
• History of developing trusted partnerships, collaborating across teams, coordinating multiple timelines, and managing complex, cross discipline projects.
• Functional knowledge and experience related to the Digital Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model defined by Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM).
• Deep functional knowledge in at least 2 process areas of the model including Plan, Source, Transform, Order, Fulfill and Return.
• Basic knowledge of business process mining and related analysis

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $52.00 - $55.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Azure SQL: 4 years (Required)
• Supply chain: 4 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Redmond, WA 98052 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Redmond, WA 98052: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Redmond, WA 98052