Director, Productivity & Workforce Transformation

WEST Inc
Chicago, IL, United States
6 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
$200,000.0 - $300,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Decision Support Systems Operational Data Store Generative AI

Job description

  • Lead client engagements focused on labor productivity, cost takeout, operating model improvement, and process redesign
  • Assess workflows, service models, and management systems to identify value leakage
  • Build quantified value cases using operational data, work measurement, and financial modeling
  • Translate opportunities into executable roadmaps with clear ownership, milestones, and value realization

Drive AI-enabled workflow transformation

  • Identify opportunities to apply AI, automation, and decision support within business processes
  • Prioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and adoption readiness
  • Redesign workflows that embed AI into how work gets done (including human-in-the-loop models)
  • Ensure initiatives are tied to measurable outcomes through KPI definition, tracking, and governance

Drive business development

  • Originate and close productivity/work transformation-focused engagements (e.g., labor optimization, cost takeout, AI-enabled workflow transformation)
  • Develop proposals, scopes, pricing approaches, and staffing models
  • Identify and shape follow-on opportunities by translating client pain points into quantified value stories
  • Partner across industry and technology teams to bring integrated solutions to market

Lead teams & grow the practice

  • Own engagement delivery, team leadership, quality, economics, and client satisfaction
  • Coach team members in productivity methods, structured problem solving, and executive communication
  • Contribute to productivity/workforce methodologies, tools, and go-to-market assets, * You quickly identify and quantify productivity opportunities and mobilize teams to capture value
  • Engagements deliver measurable outcomes (cost reduction, labor efficiency, throughput improvement, capacity unlock)
  • Clients adopt AI-enabled workflows that drive sustained operational impact
  • You help grow the Productivity & Workforce Transformation discipline through delivery, mentorship, and business development

Requirements

Productivity Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Customer Support/Service, Customer Relations, Cost Control, Process Modeling, Workflow Analysis, Financial Modeling, Automation, Decision Support, * 10+ years of experience in consulting, operations, or transformation roles

  • Deep experience in productivity improvement, including labor efficiency, workforce analytics, cost takeout, or process transformation
  • Strong ability to build and communicate quantified business cases (workload analysis, capacity, cost, ROI)
  • Experience applying process improvement methods (e.g., lean, workflow analysis, operating model design)
  • Ability to connect AI (including generative AI and automation) to practical workflow use cases and measurable outcomes
  • Track record of selling and delivering work in a consulting or advisory environment
  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience in one or more of West Monroe’s core industries preferred

Benefits & conditions

Based on pay transparency guidelines, a reasonable expectation for the salary range for this role is listed below. Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity. Employees in proximity of our Seattle, Washington DC, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco offices will have a geographic premium applied to this salary scale. Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.

National

$200,000 - $300,000USD

About the company

Other consultancies talk at you.At West Monroe, we work with you.

We’re a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients, delivering real-world solutions.

The combination of business and technology is not new, but how we bring them together is unique. We’re fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer, but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.

At West Monroe, we zero in on the heart of the opportunity, getting to results faster and preparing people for what’s next.

You’ll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. We’re right there in the room with you, co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe, collaboration isn’t a lofty promise, but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.

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