Hybrid Continuous Improvement Manager

at Lightspeed DMS

• Job title: Continuous Improvement Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, South Jordan, United States

About the role

• Continuous Improvement Manager enhancing business processes for Lightspeed DMS. Focusing on onboarding velocity, customer satisfaction, and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Champion a problem solving culture by facilitating cross-functional strategy sessions, including process mapping.
• Utilizes DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Implement, Control) methods to improve business processes to increase onboarding velocity and time-to-value, customer adoption, and customer satisfaction (measured via CSAT, NPS, and churn rate).
• Acts as a Technology Project Manager: applying Agile and waterfall methodologies as appropriate to synchronize portfolio planning, scoping, and execution processes to deliver continuous improvement projects on-time and within budget to committed roadmaps, and performance KPIs.
• Identify project goals, scope, resources, budget, dependencies, risks and communications needs.
• Identify, escalate, and resolve conflicts, dependencies, and risks—proactively surfacing blockers before they impact delivery.
• Implement large, cross-team, multi-year programs and projects.
• Proactively identify opportunities and contribute to continuous business process improvement efforts to help streamline and standardize workflow, communication, and resource efficiencies.
• Conducts initiation and project closure activities to formalize and communicate the project acceptance and handover documentation and completes a post-implementation review to identify areas of improvement.
• Communicate portfolio scope, roadmap alignment, priorities, and status to governance board and stakeholders.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of cross-functional process improvement experience with a track record of improving processes and business results.
• Demonstrates data driven solutions. Experience defining project success criteria with multiple stakeholders.
• Lean/Six Sigma or DMAIC certification or relevant knowledge and experience.
• Strong process improvement and project management skills and experience.
• Experience working in a SaaS or subscription-based software business; familiarity with Professional Services operations and SaaS metrics (ARR, churn, NRR) strongly preferred.
• Ability to lead through influence and work as a collaborative team member.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in collaborating across business/product lines and organizational groups.
• Strong ability to manage a portfolio of improvement projects and ability to prioritize based on business requirements.
• Experience leading virtual and in-person process improvement meetings.
• Experience creating process documentation with tools such as Visio, PowerPoint or Lucid Chart.
• Experience creating and delivering presentations to stakeholders about project status or outcomes.

Benefits

• Inclusion and Diversity at Lightspeed
• Equal Employment Opportunity Statement