At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead process design and continuous improvement to drive business value.
- Company: Join Wesco, a global leader in distribution and logistics solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus opportunities, health coverage, and retirement plans.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team that values collaboration and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by optimizing processes and leading change in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Bachelor's degree required; 10+ years of relevant experience preferred.
As a Global Process Owner, you will lead design, measurement, management, and ongoing continuous improvement of a process area. For this role, you will need strong leadership, diplomacy and negotiation skills with mature facilitation and communications to drive alignment of processes across the entire organization. You will need to command attention for challenges and opportunities, work well through ambiguity and make high-impact decisions and understand needs, concerns, and conflicting perspectives and bring clarity through constructive analysis. You will need to understand the human element of change aligning pace and extent of change with organization capacity and willingness to do so. Your mindset will need to be oriented towards excellence processes, i.e. reducing variability and redundancy through standardization and optimization.
Responsibilities
- Establish and Maintain Process Vision & Strategy: Define and maintain a clear, strategic vision for End-to-End (E2E) business processes aligned with corporate goals and evolving industry trends. Develop and execute an annual process strategy and maturity roadmap.
- Lead Process Design & Improvement: Design and optimize standardized, cross-functional processes that drive business value. Collect voice-of-the-customer input and stakeholder feedback to identify and implement improvement opportunities.
- Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build and lead teams of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and serve as a cross-functional “quarterback” to align business goals, process strategy, and solution architecture. Resolve cross-process integration issues.
- Drive Performance & Value Realization: Facilitate definition of process-based KPIs and performance measures. Partner with Product Owners and IT to prioritize backlog items aligned with process goals and performance targets.
- Champion Change & Continuous Improvement: Lead efforts to standardize processes across the organization and champion continuous improvement. Evaluate organizational readiness to adopt changes, balancing disruption with sustainable progress.
- Ensure Governance & Design Integrity: Act as gatekeeper for process changes, ensuring impacts to people, processes, technology, and metrics are understood and addressed while maintaining design integrity and alignment with solution architecture.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree – Business or related degree required.
- Masters Degree – Business or an area related to their area of expertise preferred.
- 10 to 12 years progressively responsible experience in the field related to the process area being managed.
- 5 years experience in a change management role.
- Experience leading change in an organization.
- Experience with Lean techniques, project management and process improvement.
- Ability to travel 0-25%.
Global Process Owner in Mississauga employer: Wesco
Wesco in Saskatoon is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic work culture focused on collaboration and growth. Employees benefit from comprehensive training programs, competitive compensation, and opportunities for career advancement, all while being part of a supportive team dedicated to achieving success together. With a commitment to employee well-being and a strong emphasis on performance, Wesco offers a rewarding environment for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the sales industry.
