Senior Manager, Transformation

Overview

The Senior Manager, Transformation at Atlas Air ideates, executes, and maintains a portfolio of high-value strategic projects that improve both financial and operational performance. This role coordinates across stakeholders including PE investors, Atlas executives, and leaders from Operations, IT, Finance, and HR with the goal of discovering ideas for transforming the business, assembling robust plans, securing financing, and aligning resources for strong project delivery. This position will start the flywheel for transformation initiatives, then gradually transition to an oversight role once project teams begin hitting milestones, moving on to the next opportunity to grow their transformation portfolio. This is a highly dynamic role that requires constant context switching and a desire to lean into messy work – sometimes acting as an individual consultant vs. leading internal/external teams, sometimes poring over data vs. informing enterprise strategy.

Responsibilities

Business Analysis

• Analyze operational and financial data to develop and investigate hypotheses about performance drivers, especially for complex decisions involving multiple teams with downline impacts.
• Translate pain points, anecdotes, observations, current state processes, and KPIs into clearly scoped opportunities for new strategic transformation projects.
• Estimate financial value and operational impact of transformation projects, specifying value levers and how/where outcomes will hit Atlas P&L.

 

Process Improvement

• Map current state business processes with an emphasis on evaluating how Atlas makes key decisions, both strategic and operational.
• Lead cross-functional teams to design future state business processes and identify what needs to happen to make them a reality.
• Inform the design of quantitative models to guide better decisions and technology to enable future state operational workflows.
• Partner with the VP, Transformation & Value Creation on change management activities required for value capture, including communications, employee training, and technology cutovers.

 

Program Management

• Build comprehensive business cases to substantiate ROI, vet plans with VP, Transformation & Value Creation, and secure funding for transformation projects.
• Lead projects and teams through PMO framework, ensuring progression according to scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.
• Document project risks and dependencies, then work across the enterprise to mitigate these proactively so transformation delivery timelines stay on track.
• Facilitate requirements gathering, proposal structuring, and vendor selection with key stakeholders.
• Oversee the build and activation project phases, often managing consultants, contractors, and/or internal teams.
• Hold regular Steering Committee meetings with executive sponsors to communicate progress, escalate issues, make important decisions, and progress through stage gates.

 

Stakeholder Management

• Align diverse stakeholders around a single vision, set of priorities, and understanding of portfolio finances, timelines, risks, and status.
• Organize, in partnership with VP, portfolio review meetings for multiple audiences, including individual operations divisions, the Atlas executive leadership team, and the Atlas Board of Directors.
• Escalate potential roadblocks quickly and with urgency to mobilize resources proactively.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Advanced degree – MBA or quantitative field (ex. economics, operations research, statistics, data science, computer science – preferred.
• 7-9 years of experience, including 2 years managerial experience, preferably in consulting, strategy, analytics, continuous improvement, operations planning, or program management functions.
• Experience leading large ($1mil+) projects, preferably around technology deployment, process. improvement, or embedding sophisticated analytics into strategy/operational decisions.
• Experience of operations at a global scale.
• Experience aligning consultants, contractors, and internal project teams.
• Knowledge of the logistics or aviation industries preferred.

 

 

Skills:

• Strong data fluency and data storytelling required.
• MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook) required.
• Data structuring and analysis through SQL, Python, or similar preferred.
• Understanding of optimization and machine learning models preferred.
• Influence strategy and outcomes wit