Manager, Business Enablement

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Trans Mountain Corporation operates Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. We deliver approximately 890,000 barrels of petroleum products each day through a dual pipeline system of more than 1,150 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta, British Columbia and Washington state.
Trans Mountain also operates a state-of-the-art loading facility, Westridge Marine Terminal, with three berths providing tidewater access to global markets.
As a federal Crown corporation, Trans Mountain continues to build on more than 70 years of experience delivering operational and safety excellence through our crude oil pipeline system.
With our expanded pipeline system now in place, Trans Mountain provides enhanced direct access for Canadian crude oil to world markets. The expansion realizes a world-class system for oil transport, developed to Canada’s high standards within one of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, creating long-term economic benefits, enhanced marine protection, enhanced safety and emergency management capabilities, and enhanced skilled-worker capacity building in communities and Indigenous groups.
Our Core Values
Trans Mountain’s core values – Safety, Integrity, Respect and Excellence – guide our every step. Each obstacle we’ve overcome or success we’ve experienced has been the result of a shared commitment to living these values every day. Together, we’re focused on doing the right thing for each other and our communities. If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your strengths in an environment that encourages Safety, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence, we invite you to explore this opportunity with us!
Reports to:
Director, Enablement & Innovation
Worker Type:
Employee
Schedule Type:
Full Time
Work Setting:
In-office
Trans Mountain is seeking a collaborative, motivated, and values driven individual to join our dynamic team as a Manager, Business Enablement. In this position, you will Lead Trans Mountain’s Business Enablement team, a cross‑functional group that works like an internal consulting practice. The team takes the company’s most important priorities from “where is the friction and the value?” to “adopted, sustained and validated”. It is a strategic seat with real exposure to executive priorities, and it moves quickly.
Key Responsibilities
Own the Business Enablement portfolio from first diagnostic through to validated value. Set direction, sequence the work and keep it tied to the priorities the executive team cares about most.
Run the steering committee and the operating rhythms, decide to continue, correct or stop reporting. Keep governance to just enough.
Work with Portfolio & Partnerships and Enterprise Data & Architecture so demand, priorities and build capacity line up. Act as a trusted advisor to VPs and senior leaders, who own the outcomes.
Stay close to the work. Step in on analysis, workshops, executive materials and problem solving when the team or an initiative needs it.
Direct the managed service and contractor capacity as it flexes with demand. Make sure every piece of work is scoped with the business before a partner starts, and hold partners to clear outcomes, dates and quality.
Lead and grow a cross‑functional team, including advisors, process specialists, project and change roles, with a dotted‑line relationship to HR for Change & Adoption.
Mentor and coach talent to drive a culture of high performance coupled with open collaboration. Lay out clear career paths and build consulting‑style skills in structured problem solving, facilitation and influence.
Embody the tenets of the E&I organization every day and create an engaging workplace.
Build the data‑led baseline of where friction and value really sit, and help business owners prioritize by value, readiness and sponsorship.
Assemble and assure the executive reporting: value realized, culture shifted, operational gains and changes sustained.
Work with Portfolio & Partnerships, which leads value assurance, so benefits are baselined up front and results are credible.
Lead the method for how Trans Mountain finds, designs and improves how work gets done: value stream mapping, future‑state process design and practical process change. Process comes first, then people, then technology.
Make change stick through adoption, coaching, new ways of working and the KPIs that hold the gain, working with the Change & Adoption lead.
Qualifications and Professional Experience
Bachelors degree in Business Administration or Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Change management, PMP or similar designations are assets.
10+ years of experience in business process improvement, transformation, strategy, consulting or business advisory work, including leading projects or programs through to adopted change.
Proven ability to lead and develop people, including coaching consultants, analysts or specialists at different levels.
Strong command of process design and optimization methods, such as value stream mapping and future‑state design. Lean, Six Sigma or similar training is an asset.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to build a fact‑based baseline, a business case and a value story that senior leaders and Finance trust.
Experience advising and influencing executives and VPs, with excellent facilitation and written and verbal communication in plain language.
Experience directing vendors or managed service partners and holding them to clear outcomes, deliverables and dates.
Experience in asset‑intensive, operational, field or maintenance environments is an asset.
At Trans Mountain, we believe in an inclusive, accessible, and barrier free recruitment and selection process for all applicants. If you require an accommodation at any point in the process, please contact us at: View email address on ca.hrm.tc or the designated Talent Acquisition Advisor. Accommodation requests will not affect the assessment of your application or candidacy or the designated Talent Acquisition Advisor. Accommodation requests will not affect the assessment of your application or candidacy.
We Build Careers and Pipelines That Last
Our story is about determination, resourcefulness and resilience. It’s about charting our own course, finding innovative solutions to challenging problems and doing the right thing. It was true when Trans Mountain became a company in 1951 and it’s just as true today. We welcome new members to our team that embrace the qualities in our story, that thrive on the new path and directions we take. Our culture is one of care and taking our responsibilities seriously. If you would like to contribute to our culture, then join our journey.
We offer:
Valuable experience providing opportunity for professional development and career advancement;
An opportunityto engage with and learn from some of the most talented and experienced people in the business;
Competitive compensation;
Comprehensive benefits programs including flexible benefits, pension and savings plans;
A place to share a sense of purpose and build relationships;
Meaningful work that makes a difference;
An opportunitywithin the Canadian energy industry.
We value:
The health, safety and wellness of everyone working in our company;
Meaningful participation from Indigenous and local communities;
The commitmentand resilience of our people;
Collaboration and achieving success together.
In keeping with Trans Mountain’s commitment to maximize benefits for communities, priority will be given to qualified candidates from Indigenous, local and regional communities along the Trans Mountain pipeline corridor.
In Alberta, the pipeline system spans the traditional territories of Treaty 6, 7 and 8, and the Métis Nation of Alberta (Zone 4).
In British Columbia, the system crosses the traditional territories of numerous First Nations that are affiliated with the Secwepemc, Dakelh (Carrier), Nlaka'pamux, Syilx/Okanagan, Interior and Coast Salish, Stó:lo, as well as the Métis.
Trans Mountain also operates through 15 First Nation Reserves located within the region spanning the BC interior through Fraser Valley.
Our Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA)
Trans Mountain is committed to fostering inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. The diverse viewpoints and cultural knowledge that our employees bring to work enrich our organization’s collective cultural understanding, which is reflected in the work we do every day. We strive to create an environment that is free of barriers to promote full participation in the workplace. Trans Mountain welcomes new team members from traditionally underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous Peoples, members of racialized groups, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
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