Senior Technology Process Optimization & AI Leader

Vizient; Centennial (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient seeks a results-oriented leader to drive process improvement and operational optimization across the organization. You will partner with product, engineering, and operations to assess current-state operations, identify opportunities, and design scalable technology solutions aligned with business goals, leveraging data, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.

You will mentor teams, guide change, and implement initiatives from assessment through adoption, delivering measurable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience required.
• Demonstrated experience leading process improvement, operational excellence, transformation, or consulting initiatives with measurable outcomes.
• Strong facilitation, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with Lean, Agile, Six Sigma, change management, or related continuous improvement methodologies highly preferred.
• Ability to analyze complex business challenges and develop scalable, data-driven solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end process improvement and operational optimization initiatives.
• Conduct current-state assessments and identify strategic opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and user experience.
• Design future-state workflows, operating models, governance structures, and optimization strategies.
• Define key performance indicators, success metrics, and reporting frameworks to measure operational performance and business impact.
• Develop and execute implementation plans, including stabilization and continuous improvement activities.
• Identify opportunities to leverage automation, workflow technologies, and AI-enabled solutions to enhance business processes.
• Partner with technical teams to align operational requirements with system capabilities and technology roadmaps.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops, alignment sessions, and change adoption activities to support successful outcomes.
• Manage project risks, dependencies, escalations, and issue resolution while ensuring delivery objectives are achieved.
• Mentor consultants and associate consultants, sharing best practices, methodologies, and project delivery expertise.

Skills

Process improvement

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Communication

Presentation

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Lean

Agile

Six Sigma

Automation

AI-enabled tools

Job description

Vizient seeks a results-oriented leader to drive process improvement and operational optimization across the organization. You will partner with product, engineering, and operations to assess current-state operations, identify opportunities, and design scalable technology solutions aligned with business goals, leveraging data, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.

You will mentor teams, guide change, and implement initiatives from assessment through adoption, delivering measurable