Continuous Improvement Specialist
About The Position
We’re seeking a Continuous Improvement Specialist that will serve as a key change agent within Aristocrat’s Operational Excellence team. In this role, you will lead, facilitate, and implement continuous improvement and other key initiatives using a blend of Six Sigma, Lean/TOC, and Agile/DevOps methodologies. Your work will drive outstanding process innovation and optimization across the organization. You will enable the evolution of Aristocrat’s business capabilities by enhancing operational efficiency, improving employee and customer experiences, and establishing standards that uncover tomorrow’s opportunities. The ideal candidate will be instrumental in achieving breakthrough improvements in Quality, Delivery Performance, and Productivity/Cost Performance. Success in this role requires strong analytical thinking, high attention to detail, ability to translate business needs into actionable business requirements, effective project leadership, and the ability to communicate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders. This position may support processes spanning multiple functions across Gaming Operations and other Aristocrat business verticals.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business, engineering, technology, project management, or another related field.
- A minimum of 4 years’ experience in a similar role across any industry (preferably in a gaming or manufacturing industry) to include process improvement, lean expertise, and process redesign.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification or relevant demonstrated project work applying a structured continuous improvement or development methodology (Lean, Six Sigma, 8D, DevOps, Agile).
- Experience in business requirement gathering, business process analysis, and business process modeling (BPM), with expertise in the development of business requirement documents (BRD), functional requirement documents (FRD), and requirements traceability matrices (RTM).
- Project management experience highly desirable.
- Ability to function with the expectation of short turn-around deadlines under potentially stressful situations.
- Strong facilitation, communication, presentation, and people skills.
- Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving thinking skills.
- The ability to influence relevant groups and collaborate closely with them to identify acceptable solutions.
- Proficient in Microsoft products and the ecosystem.
- Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
Responsibilities
- Define initiative scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria, ensuring alignment with business and strategic goals.
- Capture, document, and validate business requirements through interviews, process mapping, and data analysis.
- Convert business needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Analyze current-state processes to identify gaps, inefficiencies, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Develop future-state workflows, solution recommendations, and business cases to support decision-making.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, resource forecasts, and risk/issue logs.
- Conduct impact assessments and readiness analyses for process, system, or organizational changes.
- Act as a liaison between business interested parties and technical teams to ensure alignment.
- Lead cross-functional teams, facilitating collaboration, decision-making, and accountability.
- Drive project execution, tracking progress, and ensuring delivery within scope, timeline, and budget.
- Communicate status updates, risks, and turning points to partners and leadership through structured reporting.
Benefits
- health, dental, and vision insurance
- paid time off
- a 401(k) plan with employer matching
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
