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When you join one of our teams youll be part of a nimble group thats empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You wont have to look to find growth opportunitiesready or not theyll find you. From retail to government to healthcare were on a mission to bring humanity connection and empathy back to business. Join over 5000 people across the globe who think thats work worth doing.
Business Transformation Senior Manager Mgr
PXE Strategy Realization Office
Why We Have This Role
This Transformation Office team member will play a critical role in revolutionizing our systems and processes within the Product UX and Engineering (PXE) Organization at Qualtrics. This is a highly cross-functional role that sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. You will lead initiatives that align with our goals of driving innovation and increasing efficiency in business operations (BizOps) and product development. You will lead end-to-end efforts that seek to understand current processes identify opportunities and execute improvements that drive value through operational excellence. You will be working with leaders across the organization to drive adoption and otherwise influence the future of how the PXE organization works. This is a people manager role with a small team of transformation-focused roles.
How Youll Find Success
- You enjoy creating new programs/ systems and enabling others to increase their efficiency.
- You have a high degree of curiosity and self-motivation and are a skilled generalist with the ability to thrive in fast-paced ambiguous environments.
- You can apply flexible transformation program management process improvement and change management expertise to drive improvement efforts with a variety of stakeholders.
- You have exceptional strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities including taking a problem statement as input then designing recommending and operationalizing a sustainable solution.
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills to simplify and effectively communicate complex ideas/concepts to stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- You can collaborate with others to foster a culture of openness and innovation and have a strong ability to influence without direct authority.
- You are comfortable facilitating workshops to co-create optimized systems.
- You are organized and enjoy juggling multiple priorities at once.
- You are able to work with internal stakeholders across all levels including executives.
- You are a simplifier. You can naturally look at complicated systems or processes and determine how we can simplify simplify simplify to drive better outcomes.
How Youll Grow
- You will help grow and evolve new Transformation and BizOps disciples with PXE.
- You will influence core systems and processes that underpin the success of the PXE organization and Qualtrics.
- You will gain breadth of exposure and knowledge across many functions in a large Product UX and Engineering organization.
- You will have continuous exposure to senior leaders within the PXE organization.
- You will lead and help develop a small team of talented people.
Things Youll Do
- Own large transformation initiatives: Own one or more significant multi-year transformation initiatives to drive operational excellence and quarter-over-quarter improvement to core PXE processes.
- Identify and define critical business problems: Proactively seek out inefficiencies bottlenecks and areas for improvement across various processes and systems. Lead others to understand the impact on people processes technology and systems.
- Develop actionable recommendations: Translate data-driven insights into clear and concise solutions to address identified problems.
- Design and implement new processes: Develop and operationalize optimized processes policies and procedures to enhance operational efficiency and productivity.
- Streamline operations: Work to simplify and standardize activities across the organization while identifying opportunities for automation and use of AI to increase productivity.
- Lead your team to discovery design and do the work: Drive projects from conception to completion ensuring they are on time and meet desired outcomes collaborating with many stakeholders to maximize the benefit from transformation initiatives.
- Track progress and report on results: Monitor the impact of implemented solutions measure key performance indicators (KPIs) and communicate results to stakeholders.
- Manage stakeholders: Gain buy-in and maintain strong relationships with leadership and impacted stakeholders at all levels.
- Act as an internal consultant: Provide structured thinking and an objective perspective on various business topics to different departments.
- Training and enablement: Train employees on new policies procedures and systems as needed.
- Proactively put out fires: Address urgent operational issues and challenges as they arise solving them within the broader strategic and transformation context.
- Stay informed on industry trends: Keep abreast of best practices for transformation portfolio program and change management.
- Foster a learning culture: Promote continuous learning and improvement within the organization and your team.
What Were Looking For On Your Resume
- Bachelors Degree in Business Operations Finance or related field AND 12 years of work experience in business operations program management process improvement OR equivalent experience.
- 2 years working in a Product Tech and/or Engineering organization
- 5 years of people manager experience
- 6 years business management (e.g. project process vendor change) experience.
- Track record of managing business operations and transformation or change management initiatives. This includes the ability to drive significant organizational changes streamline processes and implement new systems or structures. Direct experience in PDLC and SDLC transformation is a plus.
- Track record of managing complex business programs including implementing organization-wide improvements and optimization.
- Experience in effectively engaging consulting and informing stakeholders at all levels ensuring alignment and buy-in.
- Demonstrate results-based impact of previous transformation programs.
What You Should Know About This Team
Newly formed team that is highly trusted by C-suite
Team of highly skilled business operations generalist and problem solvers
Collaborative creators with a keen ability to bring each other along on initiatives
Expert communicators to key business stakeholders
Our Teams Favorite Perks and Benefits
- We love the Qualtrics supplied $1800 Experience Bonus.
- Qualtrics believes in sharing the success with a portion of compensation that is metered based on company performance. We have a quarterly Wellness Reimbursement.
- Learning and Development: All team members are encouraged to devote 10% of their time to personal learning and development.
- The satisfaction of empowering large networks through technology.
- The opportunity to work with a diverse range of influential brands.
- A role that encourages personal growth and initiative within a growing business area.
- In office events are hosted to celebrate holidays and special occasions (plus we have lunch provided daily!). We are based in Seattle - with most of our Product UX and Engineering teams - making it easy and fun to develop relationships with key stakeholders.
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week work where you want owning the integration of work and life.
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other protected characteristic.
Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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For full-time positions this pay range is for base per year; however base pay offered within this range may vary depending on location job-related knowledge education skills and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer. Full-time employees are eligible for medical dental vision life and disability 401(k) with match paid time off a wellness reimbursement mental health benefits and an experience bonus. For a detailed look at our benefits visitQualtrics US Benefits.
Washington State Annual Pay Transparency Range
$229000$328500 USD
Required Experience:
Senior Manager