Job Description

Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. In over 41 markets across the US, UK, Japan, Australia, and Canada, our teams have the autonomy to move fast and do what’s right, always. They are backed by regional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world’s top technology providers.
At Slalom, personal connection meets global scale. We build deep relationships with our clients within our markets and across the globe, while sharing insights across markets to bring the full breadth of Slalom's expertise to every engagement. Our seven regional Build Centers are hubs for innovation, attracting top talent to rapidly co-create the technology products of tomorrow. We also nurture strong partnerships with over 200 leading technology providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Salesforce.
With our purpose-driven mindset, we partner with companies to push the boundaries of what’s possible—together. Here at Slalom, we are motivated every day by our company’s core values and vision. Our core values are at the heart of everything we do and guide how we work with our clients, our teams, and our communities. Each core value reminds us to stay true to ourselves while driving amazing outcomes for our clients. Our guiding principle is to “Love your Future” which inspires our culture, work, and relationships, and most importantly it is how we make our biggest impact!
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 11,000 employees! We were named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2021 for the 6th year in a row and are regularly recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work. Learn more at slalom.com.
Slalom in Canada began in 2015 and has grown to over 800 employees across 4 markets – Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary & Montréal.
Job Title: Strategy & Operations Principal
Who You'll Work With: Slalom’s Toronto Strategy & Operations (S&O) team is a regional team of experts who think across industries, solutions, and services.
Slalom designs and builds strategies, processes and systems to help our clients solve some of their most complex and interesting business challenges. Our consultants deliver innovative thinking and business-changing recommendations that are core to our client work.
Our Strategy & Operations group is a team of individuals who combine a relentless drive toward outcomes, an insatiable curiosity, and hands-on experience leading strategy, design, innovation and transformation for small-medium businesses, as well as some of the biggest organizations in the world.
We don’t believe that there is a cookie-cutter approach to solving problems, nor do we approach problems with a specific solution in mind. We’ve created models and frameworks that help to accelerate the identification of patterns to innovate business models, create amazing experiences, transform organizations, and design flexible platforms and operating models for our clients.
We practice a pragmatic approach to strategy. We bring an outside point of view to fully understand the problems our clients are facing while respecting the organization’s comfort with change. We listen to and work with our clients to identify opportunities to create ownership and engagement. We help to explore the boundaries of what’s possible and work to co-create a realistic path forward that leverages the existing company culture.
Slalom’s Toronto S&O team is seeking an experienced Principal-level Consultant to join its growing regional team.
So, what will I do?

• Conduct current state and future state assessments, documenting and presenting findings in a logical and easy-to-understand manner.
• Facilitate the definition of future state vision and prioritization of opportunity areas that deliver value across people, process, technology, and data.
• Develop realistic and executable business strategies, investment prioritization methods, and plans/roadmaps for effective implementation and measurement.
• Own solutions and effectively lead projects from planning through execution, including responsibility for aspects of project financial and operational health (e.g., margin, managed revenue, staffing, etc.).
• Mobilize teams, including creating clarity of roles and responsibilities and guiding prioritization, quality, and accuracy of team outcomes.
• Model brand stewardship, core values, and expected leadership and teamwork behaviours.
• Be willing and able to tactfully challenge clients and manage expectations on behalf of Slalom.
• Develop authentic, lasting relationships as a trusted advisor at all levels of client organizations.
• Participate in the development of the S&O practice and team, supporting methodology and intellectual capital development, training, communications, marketing, recruiting, and people development.
• Identify client/market needs and contribute to the pursuit of new business.
• Serve as a People Manager for direct reports and manage team members on projects, motivating them to perform, driving accountability, and developing their longer-term potential.
• Proactively grow and manage professional network in delivery environments and/or area(s) of expertise.
• Develop thought leadership in the S&O space through participating in industry events, ongoing training and development, panel discussions, publishing papers etc.

• 6+ years of management or strategy consulting with prior experience working with clients at the VP and C-suite level
• Experience with business strategy development and advisory service
• Knowledge of a brand range of areas:
  • Business cases and ROI calculations
  • Business operations design & analysis
  • Strategic roadmap & execution plans
  • Business architecture and operating models, including centres of excellence
  • Innovation and digital transformation
  • Process modernization and automation
  • Governance
  • Agile & lean operations
• A curiosity about how data and cloud drive business value and transformation
• Strong critical thinking skills and ability to analyze complex information and contexts to inform strategic decision-making
• Ability to build meaningful connections and trustful relationships to drive effective collaboration
• Strong communications skills to effectively advise and influence client leaders, stakeholders, and delivery teams
• A strong facilitator that effectively engages people in discussions and navigates conflict to drive alignment
• You are humble, curious, have a growth mindset, and are passionate about developing yourself and others

• Culture! Our vision is to enable a world in which everyone loves their work and life. We believe in having a diverse and inclusive community of Slalomers, encouraging everyone to bring their authentic selves to work, every day. We believe in staying humble and curious, while still inspiring passion and adventure!
• Slalom Canada is passionate about its people. We strive to make each day exciting and fulfilling for our employees through the clients, projects and teams they are working on and with. We want you to be you, there is no “cookie-cutter” approach here at Slalom, so bring yourself as you are and share your ideas and knowledge!
• We strive to create connections that are real, organic and fun… We bring people together through events like quarterlies, holiday parties, charity events. More casually through in-office/virtual events like lunch & learns, trivia and movie nights, hackathons, fitness challenges and many more!