Operations and Technology Management Major

Process or improvement analysts: These analysts can serve many roles in an organization. They help model workflows to improve processes. They also document processes and create workflows, knowledge articles, and self-service guides. Process or improvement analysts review company information and trends to make sure the company is meeting its goals and the services are meeting expectations. They identify issues, risks, and inconsistencies, bring them to management’s attention, and find solutions. These analysts run reports and provide a high-level analysis. They also understand an organization’s policies and procedures and how these affect workflows.

Project managers: Project managers work with clients throughout an entire project, from planning through implementation and delivery. They define the scope of client engagements, allocate resources, and choose the best approaches to completing tasks. Project managers collaborate closely with clients, developers, and other departments and must be able to meet deadlines. They may design performance and expense comparisons. Above all, project managers are responsible for ensuring the accuracy and quality of client deliverables.

Planning and analytics is a forward-looking process that coordinates assets to optimize the delivery of goods, services, and information from suppliers to customers while balancing supply and demand. Planning occurs throughout the supply chain. Roles include supply chain planner, demand planner, and inventory planner.

Consultants: Consultants advise people working in professional or technical fields. They examine organizations, identify areas for improvement, and propose ways to create change. Both large and boutique consulting firms hire specialists who focus on specific practice areas or industries. These niche areas require a higher level of expertise, and people in these roles are often referred to as subject matter experts. Consultants in this pathway follow a more focused and specialized track while still serving a variety of clients.

• Operations and process consultants: These consultants support clients and help improve efficiencies across the entire value chain. Their work may include reducing costs, improving operations, optimizing technology or processes, and more.
• Supply chain management consultants: These consultants focus on improving how products, goods, or services move from suppliers to customers. Supply chain management consultants usually work on improving a specific part of the value chain, such as the logistics of inbound freight or an inventory reduction.

For jobs such as business operations consultant, enterprise systems consultant, IT strategy consultant, supply chain technology consultant, and technology operations consultant.

For jobs such as business intelligence engineer, data-driven operations manager, operations data scientist, operations research scientist, supply chain data scientist, and technology operations analyst.

For jobs such as industrial engineer, manufacturing operations manager, process improvement specialist, and supply chain manager.