Senior Strategy Manager

Job title: Senior Strategy Manager

Company: Alithya Canada Inc.

Job description: Senior Strategy Manager

vancouver Vancouver, BC, Canada

During Covid restrictions, this position is 100% WFH. Once the restrictions have been lifted, working from home 50% of the time is possible. The position may require travel to the campsite in the Sunshine Coast (approximately 10% of the time). Please note that candidates must have an eligible work permit for Canada.

Do you want to experience the essence of a large organization in a company with a personal touch? Come and work with us! We are looking for creative, innovative, and collaborative people like you to join our team.

At the heart of Alithya’s values is the well-being of our employees and their families. That’s why, we continue to follow the Public Health Agency of Canada’s recommendations closely.

We remain close to you, while keeping our distance via Phone, Skype, Zoom or however you like.

Take your ambitions to the next level

As Senior Strategy Manager, you will have the exciting opportunity to provide leadership for your project workstream with a focus on innovation and sustainability while ensuring financial governance and control for a large, complex and strategically important project. You will partner with cross-functional and cross-business unit teams to define, prioritize and bring to life numerous pilots to test technologies in areas of renewable energy, security and automation, agriculture, health and telecom infrastructure to be integrated into the program holistically and in an economically viable way.

• Showcase and promote opportunities for proof of concept areas available to various internal teams;
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design the research component of the program using our technology by integrating a living lab / proof of concept experience;
• Build and maintain the integrated roadmap for all innovation and sustainability initiatives within the program considering cost, resources, impact and urgency to bring the most value possible;
• Provide governance and financial control for pilots within the program while ensuring budgets are allocated correctly internally;
• Proactively develop research funding opportunities by demonstrating benefits with potential partnerships;
• Lead planning initiatives that translate program strategy into action by working with cross-functional colleagues to inform and influence their decision making;
• Assess technology pilot results by analyzing data and applying business knowledge to derive recommendations for potential development of tested technology in the consumer space;
• Manage and balance multiple business unit and senior leadership requirements to meet deadlines and goals in a fast-paced, and sometimes ambiguous environment;
• Build strong relationships across a variety of stakeholders groups with whom you will have significant influence;
• Confidently and clearly express complex ideas, concepts and thoughts to senior leadership through impactful presentations and storytelling.

When it just clicks!

Does this sound like you?

• 3 years of experience as a Senior Strategy Manager;
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology Management, Engineering or a related area;
• MBA, CPA or equivalent work experience is a plus;
• Tech savvy with an entrepreneurial spirit and innovation mindset that embraces critical questioning and continuous improvement;
• Outstanding ability to integrate innovation and sustainability in a programmatic way;
• Strong business insight and ability to identify new opportunities and connect the dots between related projects and programs;
• Experience assessing technological trends and environmental impacts, and creatively find solutions to address business problems;
• Solid business and financial acumen with the ability to provide oversight to assigned budgets and ensure accurate financial allocation;
• Excellent analytical/business modelling skills and enjoy taking on complex challenges;
• Experience or education in sustainability;
• Languages required:

• English: 4/4

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WHERE YOU NEED TO BE

Life at Alithya

• 37.5 hours per week;
• Opportunities to develop and grow your career;
• Work with diverse technologies, projects, clients and sectors;
• Spend your days in a creative and innovative environment;
• Share experience and knowledge as part of an agile and dynamic team;
• A great balance between work and personal life;
• Access to exciting educational opportunities (internal, conferences, events, courses, certifications, etc.);
• Personal recognition of your important professional contributions;
• Great cultural diversity across our teams.

Why join our team?

Because creativity, passion, integrity and wellness are the company’s core values, we are looking for people like you who are enthusiastic, innovative, open-minded, team players and eager to learn.

Working at Alithya is a chance to be part of an energetic, dynamic, and growing team of more than 2,000 professionals in Canada, the United States and France. Our diverse practices and the extensive major projects entrusted to us by our prestigious clients allows us to offer many high growth potential opportunities to our employees in well-established technologies.

Alithya Group is an advocate for workforce diversity and as such, encourages the participation of women in management roles. We belong to the 30% Club, which encourages women’s access to leadership positions.

Meet your co-workers!

We have made a video series about our employees called 1 minute, 1 career!

Meet Rowena, a Java Analyst Developer at the Digital Solutions Center in Montreal.

“What’s also great at Alithya is that we are exposed to a variety of technologies and this helps me add to my working portfolio.”

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Location: Vancouver, BC

Job date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:53:09 GMT