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Senior Lead, Business Performance & Continuous Improvement

Waltham, Massachusetts, USA💼 Full-time💰 $130,000–$130,000🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-27

Core

Partner with business and functional leaders to drive strategic initiatives, improve organizational effectiveness, and accelerate business results through Practical Process Improvement (PPI) methodologies.

Role type

Senior Lead, Business Performance & Continuous Improvement

Builds

Organizational effectiveness, cross-functional improvement initiatives, and sustainable business solutions

Domain

Life Sciences / Business Operations / Continuous Improvement

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Strategic problem-solving, cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, change leadership, facilitation, structured process improvement, business acumen

Preferred skills

PPI, Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, commercial transformation, organizational effectiveness programs

Technologies

8-Step Problem Solving, A3 Thinking, Kaizen events

Responsibilities

Partner with leaders to identify improvement opportunities and prioritize initiatives aligned with business objectives; Lead and facilitate PPI initiatives using structured methodologies like 8-Step Problem Solving and Kaizen; Coach leaders and teams on applying PPI principles; Drive accountability and alignment across multiple functions to ensure achievement of business outcomes; Support organizational change initiatives by engaging stakeholders and fostering adoption of new processes.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic partnership focus

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