Transformational Project Manager

Transformation Project Manager IV – Mobility & Convenience

Contract Duration: 6–12 Months
Travel: Approximately 25% – primarily Cleveland, OH (approximately one week per month)

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Transformation Project Manager IV to support a large-scale strategic transformation within the U.S. Mobility & Convenience retail business. This role will help develop the strategic roadmap, prioritize transformation initiatives, and drive execution across multiple workstreams.

The ideal candidate combines management consulting-style strategic thinking, strong quantitative analysis, executive-level communication, and hands-on transformation/project leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the strategic roadmap for the Mobility & Convenience retail business.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to identify, evaluate, and prioritize strategic initiatives.
• Lead multiple transformation workstreams from strategy through implementation.
• Break down complex business challenges and conduct root-cause analysis, opportunity sizing, and scenario planning.
• Build business cases, financial models, forecasts, KPIs, and performance dashboards.
• Translate complex data and stakeholder input into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Develop C-suite-ready presentations, executive narratives, strategic roadmaps, and recommendations.
• Create project charters, plans, timelines, milestones, and success measures.
• Track progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and overall transformation performance.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Support change management, including stakeholder communications, transition planning, adoption, and training strategies.
• Identify opportunities to improve business performance throughout the transformation.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience in strategy consulting, transformation, project/program management, or business strategy.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting large-scale strategic, operational, digital, or organizational transformations.
• Strong strategic problem-solving and structured-thinking capabilities.
• Advanced quantitative and analytical skills, including financial modeling, forecasting, KPI development, and business-case analysis.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and influencing skills.
• Experience presenting strategies and recommendations to executive and senior leadership.
• Expert-level PowerPoint/storyboarding skills and advanced Excel capabilities.
• Experience with project management tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, or Asana.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments while maintaining ownership of deliverables and deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous management consulting or corporate strategy experience.
• Experience within Energy, Oil & Gas, downstream retail, fuel operations, or convenience retail.
• Knowledge of retail operations, customer experience, merchandising, store performance, mobility trends, or network optimization.
• Experience with Power BI or similar data visualization tools.
• Strong understanding of organizational change management principles.