Business Transformation - Process Excellence

BAKER HUGHES; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Private medical care options

Life insurance

Disability programs

Tailored financial programs

Job summary

Baker Hughes is seeking a Business Transformation - Process Excellence professional to lead strategic process improvements across the organisation. The role focuses on simplifying, standardising, automating, and digitising processes with a strong emphasis on measurable business value.

You will partner with senior leaders to drive enterprise-wide improvements, champion continuous improvement and change management, and ensure alignment with future-state operating models.

Qualifications

• Experience leading transformation and process excellence initiatives.
• Ability to translate data into practical improvements.
• Strong leadership, communication and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate, and digitise business processes to deliver measurable value.
• Influence cross-functional teams and leadership to drive enterprise-wide improvements with reduced complexity.
• Lead continuous improvement using Lean and process optimization methodologies to boost speed, quality and cost.
• Define and own the organization's process blueprint in line with strategic objectives and operating models.
• Lead change management to ensure sustainable implementation and behavioural adoption of new ways of working.

Skills

Process improvement

Lean methodology

Value stream mapping

Stakeholder management

Change management

Leadership

Job description

About Baker Hughes

Would you like the opportunity to develop your career with a global energy company?Do you enjoy working with financial data?Partner with the bestBaker Hughes is a global energy technology company serving energy and industrial customers in more than 120 countries. Built on over a century of innovation, the company provides advanced products, services, and digital solutions that support efficient, safe, and lower-carbon energy operations. Its portfolio spans oilfield services and equipment, turbomachinery, industrial technologies, and emerging energy transition solutions such as hydrogen, carbon capture, and emissions management. Baker Hughes continues to help customers meet the world's evolving energy needs through technology leadership, operational excellence, and a strong commitment to sustainability.

Be part of a team that keeps moving

As Business Transformation - Process Excellence, you will lead strategic process improvement and transformation initiatives across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, you will identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate, and digitise business processes, helping solve long-standing operational challenges and deliver measurable business value.
• In this highly visible role, you will influence functional teams across the business, partner with leadership stakeholders, and drive enterprise-wide improvements that enhance operational effectiveness, reduce complexity, and support sustainable growth.
• Combining strategic thinking with hands-on execution, you will challenge existing ways of working, implement innovative solutions, and champion continuous improvement, automation, and digitalisation.
• you will be responsible for:
  • Analyzing end-to-end business processes to identify inefficiencies, waste, duplication, and cost drivers.
  • Defining and owning the organization's process blueprint, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and future-state operating models.
  • Partnering with subject matter experts to design, standardize, and implement optimized processes across functions, product lines, and sites.
  • Leading continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Value Stream Mapping, and process optimization methodologies to deliver measurable gains in speed, quality, and cost.
  • Driving consistency, simplification, and standardization across the enterprise, including opportunities for automation and influencing senior stakeholders to support decision-making, prioritization, and adoption of new ways of working.
  • Leading change management activities to ensure sustainable implementation and long-term behavioral change.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have proven experience leading transformation, process excellence, in complex environments.
• Demonstrate strong expertise in process improvement methodologies.
• Bring the ability to translate complex data and insights into practical, actionable improvements.
• Be confident influencing and collaborating with stakeholders at all levels of the strategic thinking with a hands-on, execution-focused mindset.
• Show high energy, resilience, and motivation to challenge the status quo and drive meaningful change.
• Possess strong leadership, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Experience or knowledge of Subsea Production Systems (SPS) and/or Surface Pressure Systems (SPSP/SSPS) would be advantageous, although this is not a mandatory requirement.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we offer flexibility through a hybrid working model. The successful candidate can be based from a Baker Hughes location, with periodic travel required to support stakeholder engagement, workshops, and business transformation initiatives across the with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

Join Us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire