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Senior Manager, Business Process Improvement
The Role
In this role, you will be an individual contributor supporting cross-functional operating model change and transformation by analyzing and driving improvements across people, process, technology, and governance. To be successful, you have prior experience planning, managing and executing business changes that improve business performance, customer experience, associate productivity and mitigate operational risk. You will regularly collaborate with business leaders at all levels and their teams to analyze and assess processes and design, develop, and deploy solutions.
This role differs from traditional IT solutions, project management, and product development roles, with a stronger emphasis on hands on process improvement & delivery
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate and share specific examples of their prior experience, and how it aligns to the expertise and skills listed below:
- 5+ years' experience delivering quantifiable business performance improvement through hands-on process improvement and operational change in large organizations
- Framing ambiguous business problems clearly, identifying root causes, and structuring a path from current state to future state
- Conducting current state process mapping and observation to identify waste, friction, and improvement opportunities
- Designing and implementing future state processes using Six Sigma, Lean, and quality management methodologies
- Supporting business operations teams to generate solutions, plan, and implement changes that improve business performance
- Working independently to achieve expected business outcomes and operational excellence
- Conducting data analysis including cost benefit analysis, modeling, process mapping, and workflow observation
- Experience with digital solutions and ability to facilitate operations and technical teams to eliminate manual processes through automation
- Business writing and creating content in PowerPoint to clearly communicate problem framing, current/future state, and recommendations to leadership at all levels
- Passion for improving all aspects of our business and removing operational friction
- Structured problem-solving grounded in observation, data, and industry-standard improvement methodologies
- Ability to synthesize requirements for user experiences, business capabilities, and technology enablers
- Curiosity and investigative rigor to explore root causes through observation, data analysis, and stakeholder interviews
- Communication that is clear and concise verbally and impactful in written and visual form
- Skilled facilitation of large working sessions of cross-functional team members
- Accountability for outcomes that are often achieved through partnerships and influence of peers and leaders
- Adaptability to evolving and sometimes ambiguous business challenges
- Demonstrated experience in an operational excellence, continuous improvement, or process engineering capacity — internal COE or industry operations experience preferred
- Financial Services / Benefits Outsourcing industries experience, preferred
The Team
Performance Delivery is a center of excellence serving as an operational improvement partner to business leaders — focused on diagnosing problems, mapping processes, and deploying practical solutions within Fidelity's Workplace Investing's (WI) Sales, Service, and Operations. We deliver value across a broad portfolio of cost and revenue improvement while focusing on risk reduction, quality improvement, customer satisfaction, associate experience, and strategic enablement. Every associate has a meaningful role adding to the team's bench strength, standard practices, and career development
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Skills Required
- 5+ years delivering quantifiable business performance improvement through hands-on process improvement and operational change in large organizations
- Framing ambiguous business problems, root-cause analysis, and structuring paths from current to future state
- Conducting current state process mapping and observation to identify waste and improvement opportunities
- Designing and implementing future state processes using Six Sigma, Lean, and quality management methodologies
- Conducting data analysis including cost-benefit analysis, modeling, process mapping, and workflow observation
- Experience with digital solutions and facilitating elimination of manual processes through automation
- Business writing and creating presentations in PowerPoint to communicate framing, current/future state, and recommendations to leadership
- Skilled facilitation of large cross-functional working sessions and ability to influence outcomes through partnership
- Demonstrated experience in operational excellence, continuous improvement, or process engineering (internal COE or industry operations)
- Financial Services or Benefits Outsourcing industry experience
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fidelity Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by Fidelity Investments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
Fidelity Investments Insights
What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
