Transformation Project Manager

Hexion Inc.; Kentucky; On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexion Inc. is seeking a hands-on transformation project leader who drives AI-enabled process redesigns from idea to implementation. You’ll work closely with business teams to map and reimagine workflows, breaking legacy patterns and delivering measurable improvements.

You will apply AI, automation, and modern process improvement tools to create momentum, build partnerships, and maintain pace toward tangible results while navigating resistance and ambiguity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in consulting, project management, process improvement, or an analytical role.
• Owned a piece of work end-to-end and carried it to a result.
• Uses AI daily in your own work and can demonstrate how.
• Experience in consulting, rotational, or leadership-development programs; 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; learning agility and speed valued.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end domain processes from current state to a redesigned future state using AI, automation, and data.
• Own defined projects in transformation portfolio with accountability for execution and impact.
• Collaborate with business teams to map, pilot, and implement new ways of working.
• Immerse quickly in unfamiliar subject matter and become a trusted partner to sponsors.
• Ask hard questions and challenge assumptions with data-backed analysis.
• Deliver measurable outcomes, turning discussions into decisions and delivery.
• Track impact with financial and operational metrics; ensure benefits are realized.
• Lead working sessions and create materials to surface issues and drive accountability.
• Manage project execution with milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and escalations.

Skills

AI in daily work

Analytical thinking

Power BI proficiency

Lean Six Sigma

Data literacy

P&L awareness

Facilitation skills

Education

Six Sigma Green Belt or exposure

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Company Overview

Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion.

Company Overview

Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion.

At Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact. 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 cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.

We don’t follow the status quo—we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it.

Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger.

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.

Your Future Starts Here.

If you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong.

Anything is possible when you imagine everything.

Position Overview

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Immerse quickly in unfamiliar subject matter, becoming a knowledgeable and trusted partner to sponsors and teams.
• Ask the hard questions and contructively challenge assumptions, backed by the analysis and facts to make them land.
• Deliver outcomes and impact, not just run meeting agendas: turn discussion into decisions, decisions into design, and design into delivery.
• 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.

Attributes

• Modern/AI Native Mindset: Naturally leverages AI, agents, automations, to do your own job better and work smarter and faster.
• Hands‑On Builder: Rolls up your sleeves to understand , map, design, test solutions and implement, not just manage from a distance.
• Goes Deep on Purpose: Quickly immerses in unfamiliar areas, asks the right questions, and builds the knowledge and credibility needed to challenge how work gets done.
• Comfortable Without a Playbook: Brings structure to ambiguous problems and stars somewhere useful rather than waiting for full clarity.
• Biased for Action: Thrives where others get stuck in analysis, resistance, or politics; moves quickly from idea to execution.
• Constructive Partner: Builds strong relationships across funcions while challenging assumptions and legacy practice.
• Results Driven: Maintains a relentless focus on measureable impact, following through until real performance outcomes are achieved.

Qualifications & Experience

• 3+ years in consulting, project management, process improvement, or an analytical role. Demonstrated ability to learn fast in unfamiliar domains matters more than years.
• Owned a piece of work end‑to‑end and carried it to a result.
• Uses AI daily in your own work and can demonstrate how.
• 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. We're hiring for learning agility, appetite, and speed, not subject‑matter expertise.

Knowledge and Skills

• Fluent using AI in daily work (research, synthesis, analysis, drafting). Reached for a model before a spreadsheet.
• Strong analytical horsepower. 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.
• Curiosity about how process work connects to P&L outcomes.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and storytelling skills.

Other

We are an Equal Opportunity, Affluent Action employer. 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.

To be considered for this position candidates are required to submit an application for employment through our career site and, be at least 18 years of age. Any offer of employment will be conditioned upon successful completion of a drug test and background investigation, as well as authorization for the Company to conduct additional periodic background checks as required by the Chemical Facility Anti‑Terrorism Standards (CFATS) or regulations adopted by the department of Homeland Security or other regulatory agencies. A prior criminal record is not an automatic bar to employment, and the Company will conduct an individualized assessment and reassessment, consistent with applicable law, prior to making any final employment decision.