Business Transformation Consulting - Transformation Delivery - Senior Consultant

The Opportunity

Being part of a dynamic, growing organization offers an exciting career path full of opportunity. EY’s Consulting Services is a $4+ billion global practice, with 18,000+ professionals. Our Consulting team takes a strategic approach to helping clients define, transform and sustain leading performance.

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about project management and thrive in fast‑paced, project and client‑focused environments. As a Senior Consultant, you will support the delivery of complex initiatives, applying structured project management practices to drive outcomes, manage risk, and deliver value. You will work closely with clients and cross‑functional teams within EY’s Transformation Delivery team to plan, execute, and monitor projects across the full delivery lifecycle, while providing trusted advice and insight. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong technical project management expertise with excellent communication skills, sound judgment, and a collaborative mindset, and who is motivated to help organizations successfully navigate change and transformation through project delivery or solutioning transformation.

We are seeking accomplished, creative individuals who bring project management experience, rigor, passion and practicality to our growing team across five areas of focus:

• Transformation Management: enabling our clients to define, implement and manage complex portfolios from strategy to execution.
• Capital Program Delivery (large infrastructure programs): advising our clients on the effective set-up and delivery of large capital projects, including the entire program from business case, feasibility, and execution strategy, through to integrated program controls, governance and delivering outcomes.
• Complex Program Management: supporting our clients by standing up and operating Program Management Offices (PMO), overseeing all PMO capabilities including acting as workstream leads and program managers to drive the execution of major transformations.
• Enterprise Agility: A multi-disciplinary set of services that span across a variety of sectors, all predicated on helping clients navigate to increased organizational agility or delivering their largest delivery programs through agile ways of working
• Portfolio Management: assisting our clients with aligning strategy to their portfolio of work (projects, products/services, assets), prioritizing and coordinating incoming initiatives, balancing capacity with organizational needs, and enabling portfolio‑level decisions that drive value.

Together, these capability areas offer Senior Consultants the opportunity to contribute to meaningful, high-impact work while developing a versatile skill set across a diverse transformation landscape.  Whether supporting major projects or programs, enabling organizational agility, or strengthening portfolio-level decision-making, you’ll play a key role in helping clients achieve their critical outcomes. With this broad range of opportunities, the role provides a strong foundation for growth and leadership within EY’s Transformation Delivery practice.  The following sections outline your key responsibilities, skills, and qualifications we are seeking with this position.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Consultant an important part of your role will be to actively establish, maintain, and strengthen internal and external relationships.
• Apply a disciplined project management approach to plan, execute, monitor, and control delivery activities across scopes of work.
• Lead or support PMO operations, including governance frameworks, stage-gate processes, RAID management, reporting cycles, change control, and performance management.
• Undertake current state analyses to identify process gaps and areas of opportunity.
• Demonstrate thorough understanding of complex strategy concepts.
• Deliver quality services, value, and model excellent client service by establishing goals and implementation plans to achieve high quality deliverables and within expected timeframes. Monitor progress, manage risk and confirm key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with client management. Focus on deliverables and client business priorities. Manage expectations of service.
• Understand the client's industry and recognize key performance drivers and business trends.
• Demonstrate levels of technical and professional knowledge and quickly assimilate new knowledge. Keep up to date with current developments and trends in consulting services capabilities and industry knowledge.

Skills And Attributes for Success:

• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical mindset in terms of taking abstract questions and issues and structuring them into manageable, specific work streams.
• Demonstrated consistency in values, principles, and work ethic.
• Strong project and program management skills, inducing governance, risk management, schedule management, and reporting, operating within agile, waterfall or hybrid delivery environments. Ability to design or enhance PMO processes, operating models, dashboards, and reporting standards.
• Effective organization and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new scenarios, delivery frameworks, tools, and client contexts.
• Willingness to travel: while the successful candidate will be based in their home office location of Vancouver or Calgary, they may be required to travel both within and outside of Canada
• Experience working in a project management environment or with specialization in a specific project management capability or software such as scheduling in primavera P6, risk management or project controls etc.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A bachelor's degree in Project Management, Engineering, Applied Science, Business or a relevant field.
• Preferably a post graduate degree or relevant professional designation (MBA, CFA or MSc are preferred).
• Pursuing project management, program management, agile certifications including PgMP, PMP, CAPM, Certified Scrum Master, PRINCE2, Six Sigma, SAFe Agilist,
• Practitioner, or Scrum Master or a professional designation such as Engineer in Training.
• Experience with and/or certified in PM tools (e.g. Primavera P6, Microsoft Enterprise Project Management, JIRA, ADO, Planview, Power BI Dashboards).
• Government, healthcare, power & utilities, mining, or oil and gas sector experience is considered an asset.
• A minimum of 2-6 years’ experience in industry or with a professional services firm along with a successful track record supporting in the delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder, capital or transformation projects or programs.

What We Look for:

We are looking for passionate leaders who enjoy solving complex challenges with clients, can work in a fast paced environment, collaborate effectively with colleagues and challenge the status quo. If you have a genuine desire to help businesses achieve their full potential, this role is for you.

This job posting does not relate to an existing vacancy within our organization, however we welcome applications on a rolling basis.

What we offer 

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future. Our Total Rewards package includes a discretionary bonus program, a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage plan, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

EY reports salary ranges in accordance with applicable provincial pay transparency legislation. Individual salaries within the anticipated salary ranges noted below are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity, education, relevant experience, knowledge, and applicable skill sets.

• Vancouver: $88,000 to $132,000
• Victoria: $79,000 to $119,000

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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