Transformation Process Leader

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.

This is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what's next. 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

Role Purpose: Create clear, end-to-end visibility into how work actually happens across people, systems, and decision channels, and translate that understanding into credible future-state process and value stream designs that enable successful transformation and an environment of continuous improvement.

Role Accountability: The Transformation Process Leader is accountable for establishing process truth and enabling grounded future-state design across transformation workstreams. This role ensures initiatives are based on how work truly operates, not assumptions, documentation, or opinion.

Signature Capability:Can spend an hour with operators, leaders, or SMEs and independently produce a ~90% accurate end-to-end process and value stream map, without requiring formal workshops or extended discovery cycles. Key Responsibilities

Process Discovery & Mapping

Rapidly map end-to-end processes (L2-L4) across functions

Identify roles, handoffs, decisions, controls, rework, and wait states

Capture system touchpoints, data flows, and integration gaps

Distinguish documented process from actual operating reality

Value Stream & Performance Analysis

Identify value-adding and non-value-adding activity

Surface sources of delay, complexity, and waste

Connect process performance to business outcomes and pain points

Provide a fact-based foundation for initiative scoping and prioritization

Future-State Design Enablement

Translate current-state insights into practical future-state process options

Pressure-test improvement ideas against operational and system constraints

Highlight trade-offs across speed, cost, risk and control

Support benefit hypothesis development without owning benefits

Transformation Integration & Stakeholder Partnership

Deploy quickly into transformation initiatives with minimal ramp-up

Partner closely with project leaders, sponsors, and operators

Apply consistent process and value stream standards across initiatives

Enable faster, higher-quality scoping and design decisions

Operating Principles

Fact-based and grounded in reality

Fast, pragmatic and outcome-oriented

Comfortable operating with ambiguity and incomplete information

Credible with operators and trusted by leaders

Maintains high standards of integrity, discretion, and respect for operators' realities; surfaces issues constructively without blame

Comfortable being mostly right, fast - and refining with evidence

Able to infer process structure from incomplete, inconsistent, or conflicting inputs

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

A shared, accurate understanding of end-to-end process reality

Reduced debate driven by opinion; increased decisions driven by facts

Faster, higher-confidence initiative scoping by project leaders

Process and value stream artifacts actively used to drive change

WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT

Not a project manager or delivery owner

Not a Lean exercise or academic BPM role

Not a workshop-dependent facilitator

Not the final decision-maker on solution design

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree is required

7+ years of experience is required

Other

We are an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative 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.