Business Process Consultant

Company Profile 

At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally native, data-empowered solutions.  Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the support of the full Sand Cherry team.  Finding the right match for this role is a critical aspect of continuing that success.  

 Overview

We are seeking a Business Process Consultant to identify, design, and implement opportunities to optimize business processes and improve operational efficiency. This role will partner closely with business stakeholders to evaluate current-state processes, identify gaps and inefficiencies, develop future-state solutions, and drive successful adoption of process improvements. The ideal candidate is strategic and highly detail-oriented professional who can translate complex business needs into practical process improvements. Strong Senior/Executive-level PowerPoint and presentation skills are required, as this individual will regularly communicate findings, recommendations, and progress to senior leadership and executive stakeholders. If you have experience working in the pharmaceutical industry or with clinical trials that is preferred but other industries will be considered. This is a remote, long term opportunity and will primarily work within the EST time zone.  All qualified candidates must be authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship or visa transfer. Please note-we do not work C2C and you can not work remotely from other countries.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess existing business processes to identify inefficiencies, gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Design, map, analyze and implement optimized business processes that improve efficiency, quality, cost savings, and scalability.
• Lead process improvement initiatives from discovery and analysis through implementation and adoption.
• Develop process maps, workflows, value streams, and automation opportunities.
• Analyze process performance and identify opportunities to reduce cycle time, manual effort, errors, and operational costs.
• Partner with business and stakeholders to document current-state processes and define future-state processes.
• Develop actionable recommendations based on process analysis, stakeholder input, and business objectives.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual, repetitive, or inefficient processes and support implementation of automation solutions.
• Facilitate working sessions and stakeholder meetings to gather requirements, align on solutions, and drive decisions.
• Communicate and document complex information and recommendations clearly to senior level audiences.
• Create polished, executive-ready PowerPoint presentations that communicate process findings, recommendations, business impacts, and implementation plans.
• Present recommendations, project updates and status to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Monitor implementation results and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high level of attention to detail and quality.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5–7+ years in business process, process optimization or business process consulting roles is required.
• Strong consultative leadership skills demonstrating success leading business process improvement and optimization initiatives is needed.
• Ability to translate process opportunities into business requirements to help support process automation efforts.
• Proven experience analyzing, redesigning, and implementing business processes to improve efficiency, quality, consistency, and scalability.
• Experience identifying opportunities for automation, reductions with manual efforts and implementation support of automation solutions.
• Strong experience partnering with business and functional stakeholders to assess current-state processes, identify gaps, and define future-state solutions.
• Experience developing executive-level business cases, recommendations, roadmaps, and status presentations.
• Strong experience with process mapping and workflow tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or similar platforms.
• Exceptional Microsoft PowerPoint and executive presentation skills are required, with the ability to develop polished, compelling presentations for both senior and executive-level audiences is required.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Power BI, or similar business and technology tools.
• Experience supporting organizational transformation, operational excellence, or continuous improvement efforts in large enterprise or complex matrixed environments.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to producing high-quality deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to facilitate stakeholder working sessions, drive alignment, and support adoption of new processes.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

Compensation

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Colorado, Sand Cherry Associates is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the State of Colorado and takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and delivery model. This is a long term consulting engagement with expected salary range of $110,000-$125,000. Years of experience, level of education, geographic location, unique skills/qualifications for the specific role and potential certifications can be key factors in the final compensation for this role.

Benefits

Our team is unique — we are passionate about what we do. At Sand Cherry, our Consultants know they are impacting and shaping our clients’ industries. We recognize our employees for their contributions. Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry. Sand Cherry is not a top-heavy organization. We offer the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce. Discover the experience that only comes with self-responsibility in the workplace. Our team members manage their own workloads and are expected to deliver exceptional work for our clients. Professional career growth is one of our main priorities, as we affirm that investing in our Consultants and empowering our people will also deliver the best results and value for our clients.