Director, Business Process Architecture

Cox Farms; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Continuous training opportunities

Job summary

Cox Farms is seeking a Director of Business Process Architecture in Atlanta, Georgia, to lead the enterprise operating system design. This role involves defining standard processes, ensuring cross-functional execution, and collaborating with senior leaders and consulting teams to improve operational performance.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in management consulting or operational excellence, particularly within food/agriculture sectors. Strong skills in process modeling and change management are essential. A key focus will be on developing internal capabilities to reduce reliance on external consultants.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of experience in management consulting or operational excellence.
• Strong experience in manufacturing, food/agriculture, or asset-intensive environments.
• Demonstrable experience in applying change management principles.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end process architecture across core functions.
• Guide the establishment of clear roles and ownership in processes.
• Build internal capabilities that reduce reliance on external consultants.

Skills

Management consulting

Operational excellence leadership

Process modeling

Change management

Influence without authority

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Cox Farms is a fast growing $1 billion revenue business with 3,100 employees and >12 facilities across the United States and Canada. We are undertaking the transformative process of unifying two operating segments into one way of working in a highly complex, dynamic environment where operating excellence is a requirement, not a nice to have.

Business Process Architecture, part of Cox Farms Strategy, Business Operations, and Excellence is a new, yet incredibly important capability.

Director of Business Process Architecture will act as the enterprise operating system designer and owner — defining standard processes, clarifying accountability, enabling cross-functional execution, and embedding durable ways of working that improve performance and resiliency.

You will lead this function, partner directly with senior leaders and a third-party consulting team to co-create practical, implementable operating models and ensure Cox Farms can independently sustain and evolve them. This role is expected to grow the function over time and expand as the organization scales with success.

Key Responsibilities the Director of Business Process Architecture will own:

Enterprise business process architecture

• Define end-to-end process architecture across core functions (Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, HR, Commercial)
• Map current-state workflows and identify variation, inefficiencies, and gaps.
• Design practical future-state processes that work within today’s constraints.
• Develop aspirational designs that inform longer-term improvements.

Governance and Sustainment

• Partner with the PMO to establish clear roles, ownership, and RACIs.
• Establish repeatable review mechanisms to assess process health.
• Embed ownership of standards within functional leadership.
• Support change adoption and reinforcement.
• Build internal capability that reduces reliance on external consultants.

Standardization process and operating model documentation

• Build and maintain process documentation standards (SOPs, playbooks, templates)
• Own the company’s process repository and knowledge system.
• Ensure outputs are simple, usable, and adopted.

Facilitate & Change

• Facilitate cross-functional design workshops with leaders and SMEs.
• Align stakeholders with differing priorities and constraints.
• Translate strategy into practical execution.
• Coach teams on adoption and continuous improvement.

Interface with Technology

• Define business process requirements that inform ERP, BI, and system configuration.
• Partner with Digital/IT to ensure technology supports defined operating standards.
• Maintain clear ownership of business architecture independent of system design.

Required Experience

• 8–12+ years in either
• Management consulting, focused heavily on operational/financial transformation or
• Operational excellence transformation leadership roles
• Direct experience in manufacturing, food/agriculture, or asset-intensive environments required.
• Strong process modeling and documentation discipline
• Led cross-functional process or operating model redesign efforts.
• Demonstratable experience in applying change management principles in large-scale transformations.
• Designed and implemented practical process standards and governance.
• People leader
• Builder and operator
• Has created or rebuilt operating standards inside a real business environment — not just advised from the outside.
• Translates intent into action
• Can take a stated objective and define the specific routines, standards, and accountabilities required to deliver it.
• Drives implementation, not just design
• Ensures new ways of working are adopted, reinforced, and sustained across teams and facilities.
• Practical judgment
• Knows when to standardize and when flexibility is required in asset-intensive, operational environments.
• Credible with operators and executives
• Comfortable in plant environments and executive settings; able to influence without formal authority.
• Structured and disciplined
• Brings clarity, organization, and consistency to complex, informal operating environments.

Outcomes Delivered

• Turns business objectives into disciplined execution. Ensuring stated goals are supported by clear operating standards, decision rights, and defined ways of working — reducing ambiguity and improving consistency.
• Improves efficiency, predictability, and resiliency at scale. Identifies informal practices, inefficiencies, and structural weaknesses, replacing them with practical standards that strengthen performance, scalability, and resiliency.
• Builds durable internal operating capability. Institutionalizes process knowledge and execution discipline, reducing reliance on consultants and enabling the enterprise to continuously improve how it operates.