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WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY Business Process Engineer in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
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This position is in-office in Salt Lake City, UT
Job Profile Summary:
The Business Process Engineering team is responsible for developing and implementing academic business processes optimized to support the growth, service level, and cost performance needs of the individual colleges and functional practices of WGU.This team works very closely with the business analysts in the Education Technology team and the process owners within the Academic Operations teams to drive detailed redesign and re-engineering of current processes and to lead the establishment of brand new, breakthrough processes to ensure WGU's fulfillment of our Student Obsession mission and goals.
The Business Process Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, analyzing, and implementing institutional business processes that are optimized to support the growth, service level, and cost performance needs of the individual schools and functional shared services of the university.
The BPE's primary focus is to enhance efficiency, streamline workflows, and ensure the alignment of upstream and downstream business processes with the institution's strategic goals holistically. The BPE works to identify critical areas for process improvement, propose people/process/technology solutions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives across the university. They will work closely with Project/Program/Portfolio Managers, Finance, Institutional Analytics and Research (IAR), Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) or Process Owners within the identified business domain(s) and Product Managers, Systems Engineers, Enterprise Architects on the EdTech team to drive detailed redesign as well as re-engineering of current state processes, and to lead the establishment of brand new, breakthrough future state processes to ensure the university's fulfillment of our student obsession mission and key results.
The BPE will be directly involved in the largest and most important strategic transformation projects.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Analyzes and documents business processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement. * Suggests and implements small-scale process improvements based on data-driven insights and stakeholder feedback. * Gathers data from various stakeholders, systems, and processes to understand current and target workflows. * Helps develop and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs), best practices, templates and guidelines for use both within and beyond the BPE Team. * Works with cross-functional teams to implement process changes and ensure smooth execution of improvements. * Offers inputs and ideas to construct the end-to-end business process architecture, framework and relationships. * Focuses on the fundamentals of Lean from a tactical... For full info follow application link.
Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.
