Business Process Excellence Lead, Third Party Risk Management

**Who We Are** Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world. **What We Offer** Salary: $108,000.00 - $148,500.00 Location: Austin,TX You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more. At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our [benefits](https://hrportal.ehr.com/applied/). **Role Summary** The Business Process Excellence Lead, TPRM owns the process architecture, design, and optimization for Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) and its integration with Contracting. The role defines and standardizes how work flows across the TPRM lifecycle, designs risk-appropriate and audit-ready controls, and drives measurable process improvements that expand the team's capacity through smart design and technology enablement. As the process architect for TPRM, this role translates business needs into clear process requirements that guide technology, automation, and AI investment, and targets manual, effort-intensive work for conversion into reusable capability designed once and reused across the portfolio. It partners with Legal and Contract Management to integrate contracting workflows with risk management processes. This is an individual contributor role that leads through expertise, governance, and cross-functional partnership. The ideal candidate is comfortable rapidly prototyping process solutions using no-code, low-code, or AI-powered tools to validate design intent. Production build and scale are delivered in partnership with Technology, AI, and Analytics teams. **Key Responsibilities** **Process Architecture & Standardization** - Own the end-to-end process architecture for TPRM and its integration with Contracting. - Design, document, and standardize processes using industry-standard modeling techniques (BPMN, SIPOC, VSM, etc.). - Define process ownership, hand-offs, decision rights, and escalation paths across the TPRM lifecycle and cross-functional partners. - Establish process design standards, taxonomy, and documentation conventions for the function. - Maintain a single source of truth for process artifacts, versioning, and change history. **Process Optimization & Control Design** - Continuously optimize TPRM processes to reduce cycle time, remove manual effort, and improve quality and consistency. - Design and refine risk-appropriate, audit-ready controls that balance assurance with efficiency. - Identify simplification opportunities, redundant steps, and low-value activities; propose and drive changes with stakeholders. - Partner with internal audit and compliance partners to align control design with audit and regulatory expectations. - Establish clear success criteria for every process change, including expected impact on cycle time, quality, and risk coverage. **Data-Driven Improvement & Technology Enablement** - Apply process mining and other data-driven techniques to discover, measure, and prioritize improvement opportunities across the TPRM and C…