Director of Business Process Transformation

Director of Business Process Transformation

3M Health Care is now Solventum. Solventum enables better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patient lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best.

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The Director of Business Process Transformation is accountable for driving the transformation of key Finance business processes to achieve the Finance Modernization Strategic Plan targets. Key processes include FP&A, Finance Data Office, Controllership, Record to Report, Operations Finance, Tax, Treasury, and other financial functions, with a focus on achieving measurable quality, cost, delivery, and scalability improvements. This role requires a dynamic and strategic thinker with deep experience leveraging Lean, Six Sigma, and business transformation best practices to drive top‑quartile performance in finance.

The ideal candidate will possess a high degree of business acumen in interacting with cross‑functional teams and executive leaders, excellent communication skills, and a proven track record of finance business transformation leadership.

• Drive Process Optimization: work cross‑functionally to define and document existing current state end‑to‑end finance process maps for identified key finance processes across the organization, critically assess current processes, identify opportunities for efficiencies and improvements through root cause analysis, lead process mapping workshops, Kaizen events, and value stream mapping, develop end‑to‑end solutions to optimize processes, reduce costs, and strengthen controls based on Lean Six Sigma methodology and industry best practices.
• Executive Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: build strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders across functions to ensure alignment, buy‑in, and support throughout the process changes.
• Change Agent: act as a key voice for change, helping to engage and align teams around achieving the Finance Modernization transformation goals and performance metrics.
• Risk & Readiness Assessment: conduct impact analyses and readiness evaluations to identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Coaching & Strategic Advisory: keep abreast of industry best practices and emerging technologies in business process improvement and transformation, serve as a thought leader to executive and senior leaders on best practices to optimize financial processes.
• Project Management: drive overall cross‑functional project management of the process transformation initiatives, including managing project plan, deliverables, owners and due dates, RAIDE Register (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, and Escalations), etc.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or related discipline.
• 12 or more years of experience in management of financial processes and/or business process transformation of financial processes.
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with demonstrated experience driving global finance business process transformations leveraging tools and techniques for mapping and analyzing processes such as value stream mapping and Kaizen.
• Proven track record of driving successful business process transformation initiatives with high impact results and working collaboratively in cross‑functional teams, with preference for global organizations and enterprise‑wide transformations.

• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to analyze complex processes, identify root causes of problems, and develop data‑driven solutions.
• Strong and effective strategic and problem solver with the ability to both recognize and anticipate problems and interpret and summarize data to aid management in achieving strategic and operational goals.
• Excellent leadership, communication,…