Project Management - Project and Transformation Manager (f/m)

Hexion; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexion in Columbus seeks a hands-on project leader to drive transformation initiatives from idea through implementation. You will reshape business processes with AI, automation, and data, guiding execution roadmaps, milestones, and stakeholder alignment.

The role requires experience in consulting or project management, a structured problem-solving mindset, and the ability to turn ambitious ideas into measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in consulting, project management, process improvement, or an analytical role.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or exposure to structured problem-solving welcome.
• Fluent using AI in daily work (research, synthesis, analysis, drafting). Excel modeling, structuring, messy data, comfort in Power BI or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of structured problem-solving (Lean Six Sigma, design thinking, agile sprints, value stream mapping).
• Enough data literacy to recognize when a workflow is automatable and when it isn't.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end domain processes from current state to a redesigned future state using AI, automation, and data.
• Build execution roadmaps, break into deliverable stages, and drive implementation and adoption.
• Own defined projects in your domain's transformation portfolio with accountability for outcomes and measurable impact.
• Collaborate with business teams to map, pilot, and implement new ways of working.
• Ask hard questions, challenge assumptions, backed by analysis and facts.
• Track impact and ensure benefits are realized through measurable financial and operational outcomes.
• Lead working sessions, surface issues, drive decisions, and create accountability.

Skills

Consulting/Project management

Six Sigma/Structured problem-solving

AI in daily work

Excel modeling

Power BI

Lean Six Sigma

Design thinking

Agile sprints

Value stream mapping

Data literacy

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

We activate science to deliver progress—developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future.

Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark.

We invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development—equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel.

With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide.

A hands-on project leader and problem solver who drives critical transformation initiatives from idea through implementation. This role works deeply within business processes to understand how work gets done today, challend legacy ways of working, and help designa nd implement fundamentally better ways of operating. Using AI, automation, and modern porcess improvement tools, they help reimagine work rather than simply improve what already exists. They bring structure to ambiguity, create momentum, navigate resistance, and build strong partnerships while maintaining the conviction and pace needed to turn ambitious ideas into measurable results.

Take end-to-end domain processes from current state to a fundamentally redesigned future state, using AI, automation and data. Build execution roadmap, break into deliverable stages, resolve key data, process, and decision-rights dependencies, and drive to implementation and adoption.

Own defined projects in your domain's transformation portfolio, with direct accountability for execution, outcomes and measurable impact.

Work side-by-side with business teams to map, build, pilot, and implement new ways of working.

Ask the hard questions and contructively challenge assumptions, backed by the analysis and facts to make them land.

Track impact relentlessly, tying projects to measurable financial and operational outcomes and ensuring benefits are realized.

Lead working sessions and build materials that surface issues, drive decisions, and create accountability (steering committees, exec reviews etc.).

Manage project execution with discipline, maintaining clear milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and escalations to keep work on track.

Rolls up your sleeves to understand , map, design, test solutions and implement, not just manage from a distance.

Comfortable Without a Playbook : Brings structure to ambiguous problems and stars somewhere useful rather than waiting for full clarity.

Maintains a relentless focus on measureable impact, following through until real performance outcomes are achieved.

• 3+ years in consulting, project management, process improvement, or an analytical role. Experience in consulting, rotational, or leadership-development program; exposure to complex business problems is a plus.
• ~ Six Sigma Green Belt or exposure to structured problem-solving welcome.
• ~ No prior chemicals, operations, procurement, or supply chain experience required.
• Fluent using AI in daily work (research, synthesis, analysis, drafting). Excel modeling, structuring, messy data, comfort in Power BI or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of structured problem-solving (Lean Six Sigma, design thinking, agile sprints, value stream mapping).
• Enough data literacy to recognize when a workflow is automatable and when it isn't.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, pregnancy, race, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or military status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law.