As a Process Excellence Manager – People Operations, you will shape how People Operations delivers across regions and processes. You will ensure that priorities, processes, and teams are aligned to support consistent, high-quality outcomes at scale.
In this role, you bring together portfolio management, process ownership, reporting, and continuous improvement into one integrated way of working. You translate strategic direction into clear execution, enabling better decision-making and improved performance across the organization.
You will operate in a complex environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities, where clarity, prioritization, and alignment are critical to success.
In this Process Excellence Manager – People Operations role, you will lead how work is structured, prioritized, and executed across People Operations.
Integrate portfolio management, process ownership, reporting, and continuous improvement into one consistent operating model
Own and govern a portfolio of initiatives, setting priorities and making trade-off decisions based on capacity and business needs
Define and embed clear governance, including decision-making structures and accountability frameworks
Lead and develop a team of experienced professionals, ensuring alignment across different focus areas
Align stakeholders across functions and support decision-making through clear recommendations and insights
Manage competing priorities and ensure focus on the most critical initiatives and outcomes
Drive the adoption of improved ways of working, ensuring consistent execution across teams and locations
Proven experience in leading teams or managing experienced professionals
Strong experience in portfolio management, program governance, or operational improvement
Experience working in complex environments with multiple stakeholders and dependencies
Experience driving change, improvement, or transformation initiatives
Experience managing priorities and resources across multiple initiatives
Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.
To thrive in this Process Excellence Manager – People Operations job, you’ll need the following skills:
Translate strategic direction into clear priorities and execution
Build alignment and influence decisions across stakeholders
Manage complexity and make balanced decisions under pressure
Lead teams with clarity, accountability, and development focus
Communicate clearly and provide structured recommendations
Drive continuous improvement and challenge existing ways of working
Maintain strong ownership and focus on results
ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience leading teams or managing experienced professionals
- Strong experience in portfolio management, program governance, or operational improvement
- Experience working in complex environments with multiple stakeholders and dependencies
- Experience driving change, improvement, or transformation initiatives
- Experience managing priorities and resources across multiple initiatives
- Ability to translate strategy into clear priorities and execution
- Strong stakeholder alignment and influencing skills
- Ability to manage complexity and make balanced decisions under pressure
- Experience driving continuous improvement and challenging existing ways of working
- Clear communication and structured recommendation skills
ASML Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ASML and has not been reviewed or approved by ASML.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is broad and employer‑funded to a significant degree, with multiple plan options plus mental health and wellness resources. Complementary offerings like onsite/virtual care, HSA contributions, and a gym subsidy strengthen the overall medical package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family‑forming benefits include paid parental leave, adoption assistance, IVF coverage, and practical supports like lactation rooms and milk‑shipment for travel. These provisions indicate substantial caregiving support across life stages.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off can reach a high ceiling when combining vacation and company holidays, with accruals increasing by tenure. Flexible workplace policies and a vacation sell‑back option add usability to the time‑off program.
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What We Do
ASML is a high-tech company, headquartered in the Netherlands. We manufacture the complex lithography machines that chipmakers use to produce integrated circuits, or computer chips. Over 30 years, we have grown from a small startup into a multinational company with over 60 locations across Europe, Asia and the US. Behind ASML’s innovations are engineers who think ahead. The people who work at our company include some of the most creative minds in physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, chemistry, mechatronics, optics, mechanical engineering, computer science and software engineering. Because ASML spends more than €2 billion per year on R&D, our teams have the freedom, support and resources to experiment, test and push the boundaries of technology. They work in close-knit, multidisciplinary teams, listening to and learning from each other.
