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

Hexion; Ohio; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexion is seeking a hands-on project leader to drive transformation initiatives across business processes using AI, automation, and data. You will map current workflows, design new operating models, and guide initiatives from concept to adoption with measurable impact.

In this role you will partner with cross-functional teams, challenge legacy practices, and maintain velocity through structured governance, milestones, and risk management to deliver tangible financial and operational benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in consulting, project management, process improvement, or an analytical role.
• 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; Excel modeling, structuring, messy data; comfort in Power BI or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead transformation initiatives from idea through implementation.
• Map, build, pilot, and implement new ways of working with business teams.
• Track impact with measurable financial and operational outcomes.
• Manage project execution with milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and escalations.
• Roll up your sleeves to map, design, test solutions and implement, not just manage from a distance.

Skills

Project management

Process improvement

Data analysis

AI in daily work

Excel modeling

Lean Six Sigma

Design thinking

Agile sprints

Value stream mapping

Data literacy

Tools

Power BI

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.