Senior Manager, Delivery - Process Improvement

Keste; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Argano seeks a Senior Manager of Delivery - Process Improvement to lead complex, cross-functional engagements across the value chain. You will own client relationships, run end-to-end process assessments, and design integrated future-state solutions spanning multiple domains.

You will develop methodologies, mentor junior staff, and contribute to capability building within a growing practice. Travel up to 50% is expected as engagements demand.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in process improvement, management consulting, or operational leadership roles.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end process assessments and redesign engagements across multiple functions.
• Experience facilitating cross-functional workshops with senior stakeholders across Sales, Operations, Finance, Procurement, and HR.
• Experience leading teams of four or more people in a consulting or operational environment.
• Strong analytical capabilities with data analysis, process modeling, and BI tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements from inception to delivery, translating plans into detailed workplans.
• Conduct end-to-end process assessments and design future-state processes across functions.
• Develop roadmaps and governance models to sustain improvements post-engagement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive value across O2C, P2P, IBP, R2R, and HR.
• Coach and mentor junior consultants and analysts within projects.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data analysis

Process modeling

BI tools

Excel

Power BI

Python

SQL

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA/MS in Operations/Engineering/Finance

APICS CPIM/CSCP Lean Six Sigma BPM

Tools

Signavio

Celonis

Visio

Lucidchart

Job description

Company Overview:

Argano is the world’s largest global digital consultancy, exclusively connecting design and delivery for the transformation of high-performance business operations, extending our clients’ commercial agility, profitability, customer experience, and growth. Our strategic consulting, bolstered by proprietary IP, provides a comprehensive view of business operations, pinpointing areas of strength and unveiling opportunities for improvement. Argano is at the intersection of operations and technology for digital transformation

Senior Manager, Delivery - Process Improvement

About the Role

Argano's Business Consulting practice partners with organizations to design, optimize, and transform how work gets done — end to end, across functions, and across the entire value chain. As a Senior Manager of Process Improvement, you will lead complex engagements that deliver measurable operational outcomes by redesigning the processes that connect strategy to execution.

This is a senior client-facing leadership role. You will own the delivery relationship with client business leaders and project sponsors, lead end-to-end process assessments and redesign initiatives, and serve as a subject matter authority across multiple functional domains — from customer order management through fulfillment, finance, procurement, HR, and operations. Your engagements will not be limited to a single function: you will be expected to see and design across the full value chain.

You will also play an active role in building Argano's practice capabilities — developing methodologies, tools, and the next generation of process improvement talent. Typical engagements span process maturity assessments, operating model redesign, integrated planning transformation, and enterprise process harmonization — across a range of industries and enterprise environments.

What You'll Do

Engagement Leadership & Delivery

• Partner with Engagement and Project Managers to translate high-level plans into detailed delivery workplans and inventories of required deliverables
• Apply Argano's LIFT delivery methodology and incorporate key learnings from prior engagements to build approaches uniquely fitted to each client situation
• Establish strong working relationships with client business leaders, project sponsors, and functional stakeholders across multiple departments
• Lead blueprint and design sessions to develop seamless, integrated solutions that cross functional and organizational boundaries
• Manage delivery across one or more concurrent client engagements — maintaining quality, pace, and client confidence throughout

End-to-End Process Assessment & Design

• Lead current-state process discovery and documentation across multiple functional domains — mapping how work actually flows end to end, not just within individual functions
• Identify process fragmentation, handoff failures, redundancies, and control gaps across the full value chain — from customer demand through delivery, invoicing, and support
• Design future-state processes that are integrated across functions, optimized for the client's business objectives, and sized appropriately for the organization's maturity
• Benchmark client processes against industry best practices and reference frameworks (e.g. APQC PCF, SCOR, DCOR, or industry-specific models) to identify gaps and prioritization opportunities
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops that bring together stakeholders from Sales, Operations, Finance, Procurement, HR, and IT to co-design integrated solutions
• Develop process documentation including end-to-end process maps, SOPs, RACI frameworks, handoff protocols, and governance models

Process Improvement & Value Delivery

• Lead supply chain and decision analysis to identify and size improvement opportunities across planning, logistics, distribution, and fulfillment
• Guide statistical analysis, financial modeling, and process optimization work to quantify and build the investment case for client action
• Develop process improvement roadmaps with initiatives prioritized by value, effort, interdependency, and organizational readiness
• Design governance frameworks and operating models that sustain process improvement after the engagement concludes
• Leverage analytics and business intelligence tools to develop data-driven insights and performance benchmarks for clients

Cross-Functional Domain Coverage

A successful candidate brings end-to-end process expertise across multiple of the following domains — and understands how they connect:

• Order-to-Cash (O2C) — customer order management, fulfillment, invoicing, collections
• Procure-to-Pay (P2P) — sourcing, purchasing, supplier management, accounts payable
• Plan-to-Produce / Integrated Business Planning — S&OP, S&OE, demand planning, capacity planning, inventory management
• Record-to-Report (R2R) — financial close, management reporting, cost accounting, reconciliation
• Hire-to-Retire (H2R) — workforce planning, talent acquisition, onboarding, performance management, offboarding
• Supply Chain Execution — warehousing, logistics, transportation, distribution network optimization
• Service-to-Resolve — customer service, field service, warranty management, returns and repairs

The strongest candidates will have led cross-functional improvement initiatives that required coordinating redesign efforts across two or more of these domains simultaneously.

Practice Development & Capability Building

• Actively contribute to the development and refinement of Argano's Process Improvement methodologies, tools, and accelerators
• Lead and champion a defined set of leading-practice capabilities within the community of practice — teaching and enabling colleagues to deploy them effectively on engagements
• Mentor and develop junior consultants and analysts through direct project collaboration and structured coaching

Business Development

• Build trusted relationships with client leaders that generate expansion opportunities and long-term partnerships
• Contribute to proposals and business development pursuits by bringing deep process domain expertise and a track record of measurable delivery
• Participate in thought leadership and knowledge-sharing activities that strengthen Argano's market position

Travel

• Up to 50% travel to client sites, depending on project phase and engagement requirements — typically higher during discovery, blueprint, and cross-functional design workshops

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree preferred; business, operations, engineering, or finance disciplines are strong fits
• Advanced degree (MBA, MS in Operations, Industrial Engineering, or Supply Chain) is an advantage
• Relevant certifications such as APICS CPIM, CSCP, Lean Six Sigma (Green or Black Belt), or BPM Professional (CBPP) are valued

Required Experience

• 10+ years of experience in process improvement, management consulting, or operational leadership roles — with demonstrated scope across multiple business functions
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end process assessments and redesign engagements — not limited to a single function or department
• Experience in a Manager-level or above role within an operational organization, or equivalent experience as a process improvement or management consultant
• Deep knowledge and demonstrated results in at least two functional process domains (e.g. O2C, P2P, S&OP/IBP, R2R, H2R, or supply chain execution)
• Experience facilitating cross-functional workshops with senior stakeholders across Sales, Operations, Finance, Procurement, and/or HR
• Demonstrated experience leading teams of four or more people in a consulting or operational environment
• Strong analytical capabilities — proficiency in data analysis, process modeling, statistical analysis, and BI tools (Excel, Alteryx, Python, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, or equivalent)
• Ability to communicate complex, cross-functional process topics clearly to executive, operational, and technical audiences

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting or working alongside enterprise technology implementations — ensuring process design drives system configuration, not the reverse (system agnostic — SAP, Oracle, Workday, Microsoft, or other platforms)
• Familiarity with process improvement and optimization methodologies: Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, BPM, or equivalent
• Experience with process mapping and mining tools (Signavio, Celonis, Visio, Lucidchart, or equivalent)
• Knowledge of end-to-end process reference frameworks: APQC PCF, SCOR, DCOR, or industry-specific models
• Experience developing investment business cases with quantified ROI, value-at-stake, and sensitivity analysis
• Background working across multiple industries — manufacturing, consumer goods, retail, chemicals, life sciences, financial services, or industrial preferred

What We're Looking For

Beyond the technical qualifications, we are looking for someone who:

• Sees across functions — understands that process problems rarely live inside one department, and designs solutions that address the real handoff and integration failures between them
• Leads with credibility — earns the confidence of client executives and functional leaders through substance, preparation, and sound judgment
• Drives to outcomes — focused on what the client actually achieves, not just what gets documented or presented
• Brings structure to complexity — enters ambiguous, cross-functional environments, asks the right questions, and builds clarity where there was none
• Develops others — genuinely invested in making the people around them better, whether a client team, a junior consultant, or a cross-functional stakeholder group
• Is ready for the work — this role involves real complexity, real client pressure, and real accountability across multiple functions simultaneously. The rewards match the challenge.