Consultant VI - AI Implementation / Process Improvement

This role focuses on the evaluation, implementation, and adoption of AI-enabled tools to support Tapestry build activities and broader process improvement initiatives. Success requires strong change management capabilities, as the individual will lead the introduction of new tools and workflow enhancements across multiple teams and stakeholders. Key responsibilities include identifying automation opportunities, reducing manual effort, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing service delivery. As an individual contributor with no direct reports, the role relies heavily on influence-based leadership to drive alignment, engagement, and adoption across all KP markets. Serves as an expert consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of successful business initiatives and projects. Provides expertise and drives the development and implementation of complex business initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state. Develops business strategy and ensures alignment and prioritization of organizational objectives and business initiatives. Manages complex projects or project components, leads large and complex change management initiatives, and leads team members in performing complex data analyses to drive business initiatives. Participates in vendor management as required. Monitors compliance of work activities by ensuring business plans and team members adhere to relevant policies and procedures.

Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influences, mentors, and coaches team members. Practices self-leadership; creates, evaluates, and responds to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit or team members. Leads the adaptation to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members. Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying member and operational needs; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; develops and updates new procedures and policies. Gains cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves highly complex issues; escalates and resolves issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences the completion of project tasks by others. Serves as an expert consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders and business owners to drive the implementation of successful business initiatives and projects across multiple functional tracks or complex workstreams by identifying and ensuring representation and inclusion of appropriate stakeholders; building rapport and partnerships with key stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and senior management; partnering with stakeholders to develop goals and set the prioritization of deliverables; driving business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for the delivery of business initiatives; communicating and resolving tough issues with stakeholders while maintaining an independent perspective; and making formal presentations and providing reports to executive level audiences. Develops requirements, or leads a team of consultants in the development of requirements, for complex or specialized business, process, or system solutions which may span multiple business domain(s) by leveraging partnerships with