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Sr Manager Growth AI Transformation
Location: Chicago, IL (must be based in, or relocate to, Chicago)
About the Role: This is a newly created senior role at the heart of a large-scale AI transformation agenda within our client's snacking product line. The Sr Manager, Growth AI Transformation will work directly with the Global Head AI Transformation to identify, develop, and scale AI-powered initiatives across the Global Growth function and across regional and local markets worldwide. This is a business role, not a technology role. The ideal candidate is a commercially grounded CPG professional who understands how brands grow through marketing, sales, and consumer insights, and who has used data and AI to accelerate that growth. You will bring enough technical fluency to work credibly alongside engineers, data architects, and platform partners, but you will not build models, write code, or design technical architecture; our technical teams and partners do that. You will be the connective tissue between business ambition and technical execution, orchestrating a broad portfolio of initiatives, managing external partners, and ensuring that what gets built actually lands and creates impact.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. AI Opportunity Scanning & Industry Intelligence
- Continuously monitor the external AI landscape: tools, platforms, competitor moves, and partner capabilities, to identify where AI can create the most value for our brands and for our Marketing, Sales, and Human Insights teams.
- Translate external signals into opportunity briefs that shape the portfolio roadmap and inform leadership decisions.
- Maintain a point of view on where the industry is heading, ensuring the team's pipeline stays ahead of the curve rather than catching up to it.
2. Portfolio Orchestration & Prioritization
- Grow and manage a mixed portfolio of AI initiatives, including flagship engines and smaller rapid experiments, ensuring appropriate rigor at each stage of development.
- Inform strategic direction of initiatives to support AI transformation and building of new capabilities; identify and manage interdependencies with enterprise-wide AI plays (e.g. Gemini Enterprise, ODAI, Tech-fueled sales); identify AI risks and implement guardrails; orchestrate across workstreams to drive efficiencies; and ensure a seamless end-to-end user experience across initiatives.
- Identify and facilitate escalations and decision-points to and from cross-functional implementation teams and leadership to ensure that timely, informed, evidence-based prioritization decisions are made across competing demands and transformed into tangible next steps.
3. Business Case Development & Stakeholder Alignment
- Lead the structuring and articulation of business cases for new AI initiatives, working in close partnership with Digital, ODDA, Finance & Analytics, and other functions to source funding, to model and measure ROI.
- Own the narrative, translating technical possibilities and data inputs into compelling proposals that secure senior approval and budget.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the Global Growth function and in regional markets, and lead discussions in key leadership forums.
4. Agile Delivery Oversight & External Partner Management
- Act as the strategic manager across rapid/agile delivery teams and external partners (e.g. Writer, Google, Fractal, Publicis).
- Define ways of working, set clear deliverables and accountability structures, and ensure development stays aligned to intended business outcomes.
- Apply sufficient technical fluency to challenge, unblock, and redirect technical and partner teams where needed, without replacing the engineers and data scientists.
5. Scaling, Governance & Change Enablement
- Own the path from pilot to scale for validated initiatives, navigating the varying governance and compliance processes across regions.
- Coordinate deployment prioritization across initiatives and inform the development of training and communication materials in partnership with Capability Building teams.
- Drive adoption by ensuring that what gets built is understood, embraced, and actually used by the teams it's designed for by aligning to growth objectives and through continuous user feedback loops.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- CPG / FMCG background required, ideally in snacking, confectionery, or food & beverage, with hands-on experience in a commercial function (Marketing, Brand, Sales, Revenue Growth Management, or Consumer Insights) or in strategy consulting to those functions.
- 8+ years of experience in commercial strategy, product strategy, or digital/AI transformation roles within complex organizations, including leading data or AI-enabled products that serve commercial teams.
- Demonstrated experience growing a portfolio of advanced analytical products from ideation through to scaling, demonstrating strong ROI delivery.
- Strong business case authorship, the ability to build the 'why this, why now, why us' narrative for senior audiences.
- Demonstrated experience writing contracts, managing and holding accountable external agencies or technology partners.
- Demonstrated experience building cutting-edge advanced analytical capabilities and managing cross-functional teams through a complex organization.
- Technical fluency sufficient to engage credibly with data scientists, architects, engineers, responsible AI board and AI platform teams. This is not a hands-on engineering, AI architecture, or software development role.
- Comfort operating in a broad, fast-moving portfolio, able to switch between strategic thinking and hands-on delivery.
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills across cultures and seniority levels.
KEY ASSUMPTIONS
- Assumes dedicated support from Finance and Data & Analytics for quantitative modelling within business cases.
- Assumes dedicated support from the Data Office for data governance (this role bridges data stewardship within the business; it does not lead).
- Assumes access to project management resource (internal or partner) for delivery coordination on larger initiatives.
- Assumes Digital Technologies and Data Architecture own technical design and infrastructure decisions; this role bridges, not replaces, that expertise.
- Assumes Brand, Human Insights, and Growth Capabilities associates are embedded into initiative teams as subject-matter contributors.
- Assumes external partners are already contracted or in a procurement pipeline; this role manages the work, not the commercial relationship.
INTRODUCTION
Sr Manager Growth AI Transformation
Location: Chicago, IL (must be based in, or relocate to, Chicago)
About the Role: This is a newly created senior role at the heart of a large-scale AI transformation agenda within our client's snacking product line. The Sr Manager, Growth AI Transformation will work directly with the Global Head AI Transformation to identify, develop, and scale AI-powered initiatives across the Global Growth function and across regional and local markets worldwide. This is a business role, not a technology role. The ideal candidate is a commercially grounded CPG professional who understands how brands grow through marketing, sales, and consumer insights, and who has used data and AI to accelerate that growth. You will bring enough technical fluency to work credibly alongside engineers, data architects, and platform partners, but you will not build models, write code, or design technical architecture; our technical teams and partners do that. You will be the connective tissue between business ambition and technical execution, orchestrating a broad portfolio of initiatives, managing external partners, and ensuring that what gets built actually lands and creates impact.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. AI Opportunity Scanning & Industry Intelligence
- Continuously monitor the external AI landscape: tools, platforms, competitor moves, and partner capabilities, to identify where AI can create the most value for our brands and for our Marketing, Sales, and Human Insights teams.
- Translate external signals into opportunity briefs that shape the portfolio roadmap and inform leadership decisions.
- Maintain a point of view on where the industry is heading, ensuring the team's pipeline stays ahead of the curve rather than catching up to it.
2. Portfolio Orchestration & Prioritization
- Grow and manage a mixed portfolio of AI initiatives, including flagship engines and smaller rapid experiments, ensuring appropriate rigor at each stage of development.
- Inform strategic direction of initiatives to support AI transformation and building of new capabilities; identify and manage interdependencies with enterprise-wide AI plays (e.g. Gemini Enterprise, ODAI, Tech-fueled sales); identify AI risks and implement guardrails; orchestrate across workstreams to drive efficiencies; and ensure a seamless end-to-end user experience across initiatives.
- Identify and facilitate escalations and decision-points to and from cross-functional implementation teams and leadership to ensure that timely, informed, evidence-based prioritization decisions are made across competing demands and transformed into tangible next steps.
3. Business Case Development & Stakeholder Alignment
- Lead the structuring and articulation of business cases for new AI initiatives, working in close partnership with Digital, ODDA, Finance & Analytics, and other functions to source funding, to model and measure ROI.
- Own the narrative, translating technical possibilities and data inputs into compelling proposals that secure senior approval and budget.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the Global Growth function and in regional markets, and lead discussions in key leadership forums.
4. Agile Delivery Oversight & External Partner Management
- Act as the strategic manager across rapid/agile delivery teams and external partners (e.g. Writer, Google, Fractal, Publicis).
- Define ways of working, set clear deliverables and accountability structures, and ensure development stays aligned to intended business outcomes.
- Apply sufficient technical fluency to challenge, unblock, and redirect technical and partner teams where needed, without replacing the engineers and data scientists.
5. Scaling, Governance & Change Enablement
- Own the path from pilot to scale for validated initiatives, navigating the varying governance and compliance processes across regions.
- Coordinate deployment prioritization across initiatives and inform the development of training and communication materials in partnership with Capability Building teams.
- Drive adoption by ensuring that what gets built is understood, embraced, and actually used by the teams it's designed for by aligning to growth objectives and through continuous user feedback loops.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- CPG / FMCG background required, ideally in snacking, confectionery, or food & beverage, with hands-on experience in a commercial function (Marketing, Brand, Sales, Revenue Growth Management, or Consumer Insights) or in strategy consulting to those functions.
- 8+ years of experience in commercial strategy, product strategy, or digital/AI transformation roles within complex organizations, including leading data or AI-enabled products that serve commercial teams.
- Demonstrated experience growing a portfolio of advanced analytical products from ideation through to scaling, demonstrating strong ROI delivery.
- Strong business case authorship, the ability to build the 'why this, why now, why us' narrative for senior audiences.
- Demonstrated experience writing contracts, managing and holding accountable external agencies or technology partners.
- Demonstrated experience building cutting-edge advanced analytical capabilities and managing cross-functional teams through a complex organization.
- Technical fluency sufficient to engage credibly with data scientists, architects, engineers, responsible AI board and AI platform teams. This is not a hands-on engineering, AI architecture, or software development role.
- Comfort operating in a broad, fast-moving portfolio, able to switch between strategic thinking and hands-on delivery.
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills across cultures and seniority levels.
KEY ASSUMPTIONS
- Assumes dedicated support from Finance and Data & Analytics for quantitative modelling within business cases.
- Assumes dedicated support from the Data Office for data governance (this role bridges data stewardship within the business; it does not lead).
- Assumes access to project management resource (internal or partner) for delivery coordination on larger initiatives.
- Assumes Digital Technologies and Data Architecture own technical design and infrastructure decisions; this role bridges, not replaces, that expertise.
- Assumes Brand, Human Insights, and Growth Capabilities associates are embedded into initiative teams as subject-matter contributors.
- Assumes external partners are already contracted or in a procurement pipeline; this role manages the work, not the commercial relationship.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Transformation Manager
Frame your credentials around specialty occupation
Transformation Manager sits at the intersection of business strategy and change management. Document how your degree field directly maps to the role's core duties, since USCIS scrutinizes whether the position genuinely requires that specific degree rather than any bachelor's.
Target companies with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to identify employers who have already filed Labor Condition Applications for management transformation roles. Prior filing history signals an established HR process and in-house or external immigration counsel, which shortens your time to offer.
Verify your prevailing wage tier before negotiations
Look up the wage level for your role and metro area using the OFLC Wage Search before accepting any offer. The LCA must certify the employer is paying at least the prevailing wage, so knowing your tier stops you accepting an offer the employer legally can't file on.
Distinguish program management from transformation on your resume
USCIS readers evaluate job duties word by word. Transformation Managers who bury their change leadership, capability-building, and operating-model work under generic project language weaken the specialty occupation argument. Rewrite bullet points to emphasize strategic redesign, not task delivery.
Ask about the LCA timeline during the offer stage
DOL certifies most LCAs within seven business days, but the employer still needs to post the LCA notice and prepare the I-129 petition before your start date. Confirm the employer's immigration counsel is engaged before you resign from a current role.
Use O*NET to anchor your degree equivalency argument
If your degree is in a related but non-identical field, pull the O*NET occupation profile for your role to show the typical education and knowledge requirements. This supports a credible specialty occupation argument when your title or degree title isn't an exact match.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Transformation Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can, but the classification isn't automatic. USCIS requires the position to normally demand a bachelor's degree in a specifically related field such as business administration, organizational development, or management information systems. Generic management roles without that degree requirement won't qualify, so the employer's job description needs to clearly reflect the theoretical and practical application of that discipline.
Which visa types realistically cover Transformation Manager sponsorship?
H-1B is the primary path for most nationalities. Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and a cap that has never been exhausted. Chilean nationals have the H-1B1 visa and Singaporean nationals have their own H-1B1 allocation, both of which also bypass the H-1B lottery. Each option requires a certified LCA before the application can proceed.
What degree background do employers expect for sponsored Transformation Manager positions?
Most employers sponsoring this role require at least a bachelor's degree in business administration, management, organizational behavior, or a closely adjacent field. An MBA strengthens the application considerably and is common at senior levels. Degrees in unrelated fields create specialty occupation risk, so candidates with non-business degrees should document how their coursework directly applies to transformation work.
How do I find employers actively sponsoring Transformation Manager roles?
Migrate Mate lists U.S. employers with verified LCA sponsorship history for management and transformation roles, searchable by location and role type. Focusing on employers with an established filing track record reduces the risk of an offer falling through because HR hasn't navigated the process before.
Can a Transformation Manager role support a green card through the EB-2 or EB-3 category?
Yes. EB-2 applies if the role requires an advanced degree, which is common at director level. EB-3 covers skilled workers with two or more years of experience and no strict degree minimum. Both categories require PERM labor certification, where the employer must demonstrate through a recruitment process that no qualified U.S. worker was available for the role.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Transformation Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.