Senior Business Execution Specialist

DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.
 

But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities.  When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing.  Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.
 

Testing Required: Not Applicable

 

Hybrid Role: Must be able to come on-site periodically and reside a commutable distance from the assigned work location.

 

Emergency Response: Yes – Must be available to perform a primary assignment in support of DTE’s emergency response to storms or other events that impact service to our customers.

Job Summary

Leads the execution of business plans, initiatives, and projects, ensuring the organization’s strategic plans are effectively implemented and translated into tangible results. Provides business unit expertise in areas of change management, process optimization, and operational efficiency, driving measurable results to achieve business goals with a focus on timely execution and continuous improvement. Develops learning content and collaborates with subject matter experts to ensure alignment with the learning plan. Reviews and analyzes tactical assignments, conducts research, and presents recommendations or findings to resolve challenges.

 

Span of Control: 0; this is an individual contributor job.

Key Accountabilities

• Assesses existing business processes to identify inefficiencies or bottlenecks hindering goal achievement to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and implement best practices to achieve business objectives. 
• Analyzes performance metrics and tracking systems to measure progress towards goals and metrics, adapting strategies or plans to respond to situations and reporting progress to senior leadership.
• Facilitate decision-making processes related to execution, providing insights and recommendations based on data analysis and their understanding of the business.
• Evaluates and leads opportunities to enhance business process efficiency and effectiveness by conducting research, analyzing alternatives, and recommending solutions for processes to support successful execution.
• Leads planning and execution of tasks, projects, programs, or initiatives, monitoring key indicators to ensure effective performance of assigned operations or business groups and finding solutions to challenges that arise during execution.
• Identifies opportunities to enhance operational processes, analyze root causes of inefficiencies, and develop solutions to streamline workflows for enhanced productivity and cost reductions.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align priorities, drive deliverables, and facilitate decision-making and issue resolution for ensuring smooth execution.
• Delivers reports, updates, or presentations to senior leadership on the progress of execution efforts, highlighting key milestones, challenges, and successes.
• Develops and delivers training materials to support the implementation of new processes or systems, ensuring alignment with organizational learning plans.
• Provides guidance to less experienced staff and influencing team leaders and executives to drive strategic initiatives.

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

This is a multi-track base requirement job; education and experience requirements can be satisfied through one of the following options:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, or Project Management with 5 years of job relevant experience in project management, project scheduling and estimating, or data analysis.
• Associates degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Information Technolog