Transformation Manager

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Transformation Manager | UK, Remote

• Location: United Kingdom
• Work model: Remote
• Employment: Full-time
• Level: Mid-Senior
• Estimated compensation: €110,000–€220,000 +  Equity
• Work authorization: Existing UK work authorization required
• Travel: Regular travel expected, including mandatory travel to Prague during final interview stages
• Industry: Enterprise AI / Retail / CPG Transformation

About the opportunity

• Join an early-stage AI company transforming operations across retail and CPG enterprises
• Own the customer's business transformation rather than simply managing software deployment
• Work directly with COOs, CFOs, board members, and other senior executives
• Connect AI capabilities to measurable P&L outcomes
• Turn successful pilots into multi-million-pound enterprise-wide expansions
• Build the transformation function alongside a small, high-ownership team
• Operate as a consultant-in-residence rather than a traditional Customer Success Manager

What you'll own

• Own the customer's transformation roadmap and measurable business outcomes
• Identify the highest-value operational processes to transform
• Build data-backed business cases for AI-driven operational change
• Establish baselines, KPIs, and ROI measurement frameworks
• Quantify impact across revenue, margin, cost, productivity, and return on capital
• Present transformation strategies and proof points to C-level and board stakeholders
• Lead executive steering conversations
• Drive organisational buy-in for major operational changes
• Turn initial pilots into broader enterprise deployments
• Identify additional workflows and functions for expansion
• Lead the business and people side of AI-enabled process transformation
• Manage stakeholder resistance and organisational change
• Work with technical teams to ensure deployments support the intended business outcomes
• Build executive-ready proof packs demonstrating measurable impact

What we're looking for

• Strong background in top-tier strategy or transformation consulting
• Experience from firms such as McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, Accenture, or comparable organisations
• Engagement Manager-level experience or equivalent ownership
• Significant hands-on transformation experience within FMCG, CPG, or Retail
• Multiple substantial retail or CPG engagements strongly preferred
• Proven ability to own business outcomes rather than simply project delivery
• Experience building rigorous financial and operational business cases
• Strong understanding of P&L drivers
• Ability to quantify revenue growth, margin improvement, cost reduction, and productivity gains
• C-level credibility and executive presence
• Experience presenting to COOs, CFOs, executive committees, or boards
• Strong stakeholder and change-management capability
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
• Strong commercial instincts and authority-based selling approach

Particularly valuable experience

• Category management
• Supply chain transformation
• Trade terms
• Finance operations
• Retail operations
• FMCG operating models
• Enterprise automation
• RPA or workflow automation
• AI-enabled business transformation
• Multi-country transformation programmes
• Multi-business-unit transformation
• Organisational change management
• Executive steering committees
• Enterprise expansion
• Building transformation roadmaps from initial pilots
• Developing ROI cases for large technology investments

Strong profile signals

• Former Engagement Manager at an MBB firm
• Senior transformation professional from a leading consulting firm
• 4+ meaningful FMCG or retail transformation engagements
• Direct ownership of measurable P&L impact
• Track record of influencing CFOs, COOs, or boards
• Experience taking a successful pilot into a large enterprise rollout
• Evidence of selling through expertise rather than traditional sales tactics
• Strong combination of strategic thinking and hands-on execution
• Experience in startups or other highly ambiguous environments
• Builder mentality and interest in creating a new function from the ground up

This role may not be the right fit if you

• Have no direct FMCG, CPG, or retail transformation experience
• Have no top-tier or Big 4 consulting background
• Have primarily worked as a technical project manager
• Come from purely reactive Customer Success roles
• Measure success mainly through features deployed or customer satisfaction rather than business impact
• Have limited exposure to C-level stakeholders
• Prefer clearly established processes and narrowly defined responsibilities
• Want to spend most of your time working on technical implementation
• Have worked exclusively in large, highly structured environments without evidence of operating independently
• Are unwilling to travel regularly
• Are unable to attend the required final interview stages in Prague

Useful additional languages

• Czech, French, Nordic languages

What you'll get

• Significant ownership over enterprise transformation outcomes
• Direct exposure to senior executives and boards
• Opportunity to shape a new strategic function from an early stage
• Real enterprise customers and measurable business impact
• High level of autonomy
• Unlimited AI tooling budget
• Direct influence on product direction through customer transformation work
• Competitive compensation
• Meaningful equity
• Ability to optimize the compensation mix toward additional equity
• High-velocity environment built around ownership and candid feedback

Interview process

• Stage 1: 30-minute Hiring Manager screen
• Stage 2: Approximately 1-hour asynchronous transformation task
• Stage 3: Approximately 2-hour on-site interview in Prague
• Stage 4: Fully compensated 2-day on-site trial in Prague on a real customer engagement

If this sounds like a fit, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today!