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Strategy and Transformation Consultant Jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Querentia
Title: Strategy and Transformation Consultant
Company: Querentia
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
We are hiring a Utilities Transformation Manager / Senior Consultant to lead strategic initiatives across power, gas, and water utilities. This role focuses on grid modernization, digital transformation, and operational excellence.
You will work closely with stakeholders to drive transformation programs across generation, transmission, distribution, and water/wastewater operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategy and transformation programs across generation, transmission, distribution, and water/wastewater operations (e.g., grid modernization, AMI, DER/DERMS, asset management, field mobility).
- Translate operational and regulatory requirements into actionable roadmaps spanning people, process, technology, and data.
- Oversee multi-disciplinary teams delivering assessments, business cases, system selections, implementations, and change management.
- Leverage and expand senior relationships with investor-owned utilities, public utilities, municipalities, regulators, and industry bodies.
- Monitor regulatory shifts, incentives, and market trends (e.g., FERC/NERC, state PUCs, EPA, decarbonization policies, resilience funding) to inform client strategies.
- Advise on IT/OT convergence and architecture across SCADA, ADMS/DERMS, EMS, CIS, EAM/APM, GIS, MDMS/AMI, and data platforms.
- Guide cloud adoption, data governance, analytics/AI/ML, digital twins, IoT/edge, and cybersecurity aligned to NERC CIP and industry best practices.
- Support vendor evaluations, solution design, integration patterns, and program governance with a focus on reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance.
- Drive process optimization in planning, dispatch, outage management, vegetation management, work/asset management, supply chain, and customer operations.
- Establish performance metrics and benefits realization frameworks tied to SAIDI/SAIFI, O&M optimization, capital efficiency, regulatory outcomes, and customer experience.
- Lead organizational readiness, workforce upskilling, and change management for sustainable adoption.
Required Qualifications:
- 5 – 8+ years in the utilities sector (electric, gas, and/or water), with progressive responsibility in operations, engineering, technology, or consulting.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional programs (>$5M+) in grid/water modernization, asset management, AMI/DER, or customer/field transformation.
- Strong understanding of regulatory environments and cost-recovery mechanisms; experience preparing/supporting rate cases or regulatory filings a plus.
- Proven sector network with utility executives, technology vendors, and industry associations; track record in business development and account growth.
- Technical competence across core utility systems and modern architectures: SCADA, ADMS/OMS, EMS, GIS, EAM/APM (e.g., Maximo), CIS, MDMS, DERMS; data platforms (cloud, Lakehouse), analytics, and cybersecurity.
- Excellent communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management; ability to abstract complex technical topics into clear business value.
- Professional certifications such as PMP, PE, CISSP, or cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Experience with major platforms and tools (e.g., ESRI, SAP/Oracle Utilities, Maximo, GE/Siemens/Schneider, OSIsoft/AVEVA, Snowflake/Databricks).
- Experience with decarbonization and distributed energy resources, electrification planning, resilience/hardening, wildfire mitigation, or water loss management.
- Prior consulting experience or internal transformation leadership within a utility.
