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Summary

In this role, you’ll be responsible for leading a team to evangelize automation throughout the organization by articulating technology, value, and service offerings to both business and technical users, and tasked with identifying potential opportunities for automation. The Automation Manager provides vision, strategy, support, and execution automation across multiple automation platforms.  The candidate should have strong problem-solving abilities, be able to work both at high and low levels of detail, have excellent communication skills and have experience successfully leading implementation teams as well as leading in an environment where priorities can change quickly.  This role will partner with the Robotics Process Automation (RPA) Center of Excellence (CoE) Committee. 

Responsibilities

• Manages the plan, build and run activities of the Automation Office and Automation Tools
• Plan – Process Identification, Qualification and Business Partner relationships
• Collaborate with business units to identify processes that can be automated and prioritize them based on business value and feasibility.
• Drive automation pipeline by prioritizing use cases based on business objectives, stability of the current process, and return on investment
• Accelerate adoption of RPA through demos, hands-on-training/workshops, ideation sessions
• Advocates & educates the business on automation tools and manages top-down and bottoms-up ideation efforts through functional sessions
• Implement/Adhere to established governance and operating models
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization to promote the adoption of RPA solutions and drive process improvement
• Facilitate meetings with business SMEs and business technologists as needed.
• Build – Collaborates with Business Analysts (Discovery and Process Design Documentation) and Developers (RPA, Machine Learning)
• Conduct deep-dive workshops with process owners to understand and accurately document business process requirements
• Assist with leading of RPA team to deliver high-quality automation solutions 
• Ensure that automation solutions are scalable, maintainable, and meet business requirements. 
• Support delivery and execution of RPA and process automation initiatives
• Run – Maintenance and Reporting of Automation
• Ensure that each business partner engagement has a tangible automation metric.
• Manage the RPA development pipeline, ensuring that automation solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Monitor and report business drivers and metrics for all RPA solutions with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Review BOT performance metrics to ensure continued sustainability and growth potential 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in RPA development and/or implementation.
• Ability to lead large-scale, complex initiatives addressing overall business needs, with knowledge and understanding of the goals and inter-dependencies of functional departments and groups (in a manufacturing setting) 
• Develop knowledge of business systems and processes to lead initiatives to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of business processes
• Partner with business stakeholders to support strategic initiatives 
• Positively influence others, lead by example, train, develop and mentor automation team members; introduce RPA-related automation tools and aligns best practices across functions where relevant
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to collaborate with internal customers, and external vendors and identify opportunities for improvement while demonstrating a strong desire to learn and grow
• Collaborate with the development team and implementation partner members to ensure proper implementation and integration of the solutions
• Strong understanding of automation tools such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, and Power Automate.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technologies and business processes 
• General knowledge of Agile development methodology
• Experience in project management, including project planning, resource allocation, and risk management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• General knowledge of artificial intelligence and machine learning is preferred
• Experience in process automation, business process management, or workflow automation is a plus.
• Willing to work a rotational schedule to support a global team.
• Must be a dynamic and self-starting individual who is able to work independently or as part of a team with minimal guidance and direction