About this role
This leader will establish Business Enablement as a scalable, enterprise-wide capability platform rather than a set of siloed functions. The mandate is to define, deploy, and continuously improve common frameworks, playbooks, governance cadences, and value tracking mechanisms that enable consistent execution and replication of transformation outcomes across the operations portfolio.
The role will directly lead and govern core horizontal CoEs and capabilities, including -
- CoEs - Process Excellence, Transitions, Risk & Controls, Domain Learning Academies
- Delivery Teams - Workforce Management, Operational Analytics, and Quality Excellence
Success will require strong executive influence, cross-BU alignment, disciplined operating rhythm, and the ability to convert capability design into scaled adoption and business outcomes.
Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
- Define the enterprise operating model: Build ideal operating models for each CoE and institutionalize “design once, deploy everywhere” capability models across SGUs, geographies, and client accounts.
- Integrate CoEs into one enablement ecosystem: Lead multiple capability areas through common standards, minimum frameworks, SOPs, checklists, governance structures, and review cadences to avoid fragmentation and duplication.
- Drive standardization and adoption: Create and enforce “One EXL Operations” standards across accounts, including transition playbooks, process excellence methodologies, risk and control templates, quality frameworks, and deployment toolkits.
- Embed analytics in operations: Partner with service delivery team to industrialize forecasting models, exception-based decisioning, control towers, insight layers into BAU operations.
- Build next-gen workforce management: Establish WFM as a predictive, analytics-led capability focused on capacity optimization, utilization improvement, schedule adherence, skill-based staffing, and demand variability management.
- Scale domain capability building: Lead domain learning academies that build future-ready capability pipelines aligned to client needs, emerging skills, AI, analytics, digital operations, time-to-proficiency, productivity lift, and internal talent mobility.
- Institutionalize transition, quality, and risk excellence: Drive speed-to-stability, low-disruption transitions, stronger quality outcomes, audit readiness, control effectiveness, reduced defect leakage, and improved SLA and VOC performance.
- Own value realization governance: Establish an enterprise value realization discipline with KPI trees, benefit tracking, adoption metrics, transformation ROI, and committed-versus-realized value assurance.
Qualifications
- 25+ years of experience across global operations leadership, transformation, CoE leadership, and enterprise enablement.
- Proven track record of automation, analytics, process excellence, and operational transformation into BAU delivery environments.
- Demonstrated experience building enterprise CoEs with strong governance, adoption discipline, and measurable business impact.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to engage C-suite clients, internal operating committees, business unit leaders, and global stakeholders.
- Ability to operate as a horizontal enterprise leader without direct P&L control, influencing through standards, governance, outcomes, and credibility.
- Commercial acumen across RFPs, solutioning, margin management, value articulation, and client-facing differentiation.
- A systems thinker and enterprise integrator—able to connect multiple capability areas into one coherent operating system.
- Ability to convert frameworks into adoption, adoption into measurable outcomes, and outcomes into scalable enterprise advantage.
EXL is the indispensable partner for leading businesses in data-led industries such as insurance, banking and financial services, healthcare, retail and logistics. We bring a unique combination of data, advanced analytics, digital technology and industry expertise to help our clients turn data into insights, streamline operations, improve customer experience, and transform their business. Our partnerships with clients are built on a foundation of collaboration – and we’ve been chosen as a partner by nine of the top ten leading US insurance companies, nine of the top 20 global banks, and six of the top ten US health care payers. We function as one team to make your goals our goals, whether that’s unlocking the value of generative AI or embedding analytics into workflows that reduce risk or power your growth. Clients choose EXL as their transformation partner for many reasons. Our geographic diversity make talent all over the world instantly accessible. Digital accelerators enable unmatched speed-to-value, letting you realize results fast. It’s our people that truly set us apart, though, including the 1,500 data scientists we have dedicated to our generative AI practice. And our more than twenty years of experience in delivering business services, garnering stellar client references, and maintaining a solid balance sheet are reassuring to our C-suite clients. Find out for yourself why clients, employees, and analysts think we’re some of the best in the business. Contact us to see how we can help you achieve your goals.
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