Senior Principal, Transformation Management

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology company that leads with outcomes and teams with leaders, bringing more together. Our purpose is to help people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. Every day we bring our heads and our hearts to being a trusted copilot, respectful challenger, and unwavering champion for each of our customers.
Our strategic vision is to be the first in our industry to lead with bringing more and delivering outcomes as we work to become the world’s most customer-obsessed and employee-empowered services company. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.
What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.
As a Senior Principal in Transformation Management at Slalom, you will provide executive-level leadership for complex, enterprise-scale transformations, primarily serving Financial Services clients across our Canadian portfolio, with opportunities to work across other industries. You will shape transformation strategy, mobilize integrated teams, and guide sustained execution across people, process, and technology, while helping grow the market impact and maturity of Slalom’s Transformation Design & Leadership (TDL) practice in Canada.
You will serve as a senior advisor to client executives and Slalom leaders, connecting strategic ambition to practical delivery. You will oversee multifaceted transformation journeys, establish the governance and leadership conditions required for success, and ensure Cloud- and AI-enabled investments translate into measurable business outcomes.
Working across Transformation Architects, Cloud and AI technologists, change leaders, account teams, and client executives, you will bring the judgement, commercial perspective, and delivery discipline required to lead high-stakes transformation portfolios in complex and regulated environments.
What You’ll DoAdvise Executives and Shape Transformation Portfolios
Partner with C-suite executives, transformation sponsors, and account leaders to frame enterprise transformation priorities, investment choices, and measurable outcomes.
Shape multi-year transformation portfolios that translate Cloud, Data, and AI disruption into sequenced, executable initiatives across people, process, technology, and operating model change.
Guide clients through critical decisions involving value, risk, pace, organizational capacity, and adoption, bringing an independent and pragmatic point of view.
Create alignment across senior stakeholders by establishing a clear transformation narrative, decision architecture, success measures, and executive governance model.
Lead Complex, Enterprise-Scale Transformations
Act as the senior Transformation Delivery Partner and trusted advisor accountable for the health, direction, and outcomes of large, multi-workstream programs.
Lead complex transformations spanning technical program design, Cloud, Data and AI enablement, operating model evolution, organizational readiness, learning, change, and adoption.
Mobilize and oversee integrated Slalom and client teams, clarifying accountabilities, resolving cross-program dependencies, and maintaining momentum through ambiguity and disruption.
Ensure initiatives progress from strategy and experimentation to enterprise-scale implementation, adoption, and value realization with transparent milestones, risks, and outcomes.
Advise on the operationalization of AI Offices, Cloud Centres of Excellence (CCoEs), portfolio governance, and transformation management structures.
Provide Executive Governance and Value Leadership
Establish fit-for-purpose governance, executive forums, delivery cadences, escalation paths, and portfolio-level controls that support timely decisions and accountable execution.
Translate complex delivery signals, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs into clear executive insights and recommendations.
Champion measurable value realization by connecting transformation outcomes to business priorities, adoption measures, operating performance, and investment decisions.
Anticipate systemic risks across architecture, platforms, workforce, vendors, and business change, and lead coordinated intervention before those risks affect outcomes.
Grow Client Relationships and Market Impact
Build trusted relationships with senior client leaders and identify opportunities to extend Slalom’s impact based on observed business needs and transformation priorities.
Partner with market, account, and capability leaders to shape pursuits, qualify opportunities, develop compelling transformation propositions, and lead executive-level presentations.
Contribute to account growth through strong delivery, commercial judgement, and the ability to connect Slalom capabilities into integrated client solutions.
Represent Slalom’s transformation perspective in client forums, industry conversations, and market-facing thought leadership.
Build Slalom’s Transformation Capability
Help define and evolve Slalom’s Transformation Management offerings, methods, playbooks, accelerators, and points of view, particularly for Cloud- and AI-enabled change.
Provide visible leadership across TDL and adjacent capabilities, strengthening collaboration among transformation, technology, product, data, and organizational change teams.
Mentor and sponsor Principals, consultants, and emerging leaders, building confidence in executive advisory, transformation execution, and commercial leadership.
Contribute to workforce planning, talent development, quality oversight, and the continued growth of the Transformation Management community in Canada.
What You’ll Bring
12+ years of experience in consulting, transformation leadership, or enterprise program leadership, including significant accountability for complex business and technology transformations.
A sustained record of advising senior executives and leading enterprise-scale, multi-capability programs from strategy and mobilization through implementation, adoption, and value realization.
Proven experience with Cloud- and AI-enabled transformation, including governance, operating model change, organizational readiness, workforce enablement, and responsible enterprise adoption.
Strong working fluency in Cloud, Data, AI, platform, product, and modern delivery concepts, enabling you to challenge assumptions and guide integrated teams without acting as the solution architect.
Demonstrated strength in executive governance, portfolio leadership, transformation architecture, program recovery, dependency management, and decision facilitation.
Commercial acumen and experience shaping opportunities, supporting sales pursuits, scoping work, developing proposals, and expanding trusted client relationships.
Experience leading in complex or regulated enterprise environments, with an appreciation for risk, controls, security, compliance, and organizational constraints.
Exceptional executive communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to distil complex delivery realities into clear decisions, actions, and outcomes.
A leadership style grounded in collaboration, inclusion, coaching, sound judgement, and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries.
French proficiency is considered an asset.
Additional InformationThis role emphasizes executive advisory, transformation leadership, portfolio orchestration, and market impact. It is not a solution architecture or engineering delivery role. Success is defined by the ability to shape the path forward, lead through complexity, build trusted executive relationships, and ensure transformation investments deliver sustained business value.
Experience with modern Cloud and AI ecosystems, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and enterprise AI platforms, is beneficial for effective collaboration and informed program leadership.
About SlalomSlalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create lasting value.
About UsSlalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.
Hybrid/In office: We are hybrid but there are expectations that if your team leader or client requires you onsite that you are able to meet those expectations/requirementsSlalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the expected base salary pay range is $144,
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