WGL - Senior Partner, Organizational Design & Workforce Strategy
We are seeking a seasoned organizational design and workforce strategy professional to join a small, highly skilled team with strong executive sponsorship and clear priorities. This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise outcomes while helping shape how this evolving capability takes form. This position plays a critical enterprise‑level advisory and delivery mandate, shaping how our utilities business designs its organizations, deploys talent, and evolves operating models to enable strategy execution, transformation, and AI enabled ways of working. Operating as a senior individual contributor and trusted thought partner, the role works closely with executive leaders, functional heads, and the Director, Organization & Workforce Strategy to design fit‑for‑purpose structures, governance models, and workforce strategies with material implications for cost, risk, productivity, and execution effectiveness. It is an ideal opportunity for someone who thrives in complexity, knows how to work with senior levels, and wants to leave a meaningful imprint on how a large organization evolves.
What You'll Do
Lead end to end organizational design and operating model initiatives across large, complex functions and enterprise programs
Translate enterprise and functional strategies into future state organizational designs, including operating models, governance structures, roles, accountabilities, and spans and layers optimization
Conduct current state diagnostics, benchmarking, and scenario analysis to define improvement opportunities and inform decision making
Develop and evaluate alternative organizational and service delivery models, assessing impacts across cost, capacity, decision rights, risk, employee experience, and execution effectiveness
Build clear, defensible business cases for organizational design decisions, articulating financial implications, scalability, trade offs, and value realization
Support strategic workforce planning by translating strategic direction into multi year supply and demand scenarios and identifying critical capability gaps
Ensure organizational designs enable technology-driven operating models, including ERP, digital, and AI-enabled transformations, while balancing operational effectiveness, governance, risk, and workforce impacts
Design and facilitate executive and leadership workshops to drive alignment, navigate trade offs, and support timely decisions
Craft executive ready narratives and materials that translate complex analysis into clear, compelling, decision ready insights
Partner closely with utility business leaders, corporate functions and regulatory & governance stakeholders to support implementation and sustained impact
Coach leaders and HR partners on organizational design and workforce strategy thinking, building enterprise capability over time
What You'll Bring
8–12+ years of progressive experience in organizational design, workforce strategy, management consulting, or enterprise transformation
Expertise in organizational design, operating model transformation, and workforce strategy within complex, asset intensive environments
Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to link organizational design decisions to cost, productivity, controls, risk, and performance outcomes
Experience supporting utility, energy, infrastructure, or similarly complex organizations through business transformation, organizational redesign, operating model optimization, and workforce strategy initiatives
Proven ability to operate as a trusted senior advisor, influencing executives and facilitating high stakes, confidential decision forums
Advanced analytical, modeling, and scenario planning capability, including comfort with data backed storytelling
Exceptional executive communication and workshop facilitation skills, with a strong narrative mindset
Experience designing organizations in regulated energy and/or multi-jurisdictional environments is a strong asset
Bachelor's degree required; graduate degree or formal organizational design certification considered an asset
Why Join AltaGas
Contribute to meaningful, enterprise-wide decisions, influencing how our utility structures its organization, deploys talent, and enables future ways of working
Operate as a trusted senior advisor, partnering closely with executive leaders on complex, high impact initiatives while remaining a senior individual contributor focused on depth, influence, and outcomes
Join a newly established, high impact team with clear priorities and strong executive sponsorship, offering the opportunity to help define how organizational design and workforce strategy are delivered across the enterprise
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For Canadian hires: AltaGas hires personnel on the basis of job-related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
For U.S. hires: WGL/SEMCO/AltaGas offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive bonus plans, holiday pay, 401K matching and a wide array of benefits. These benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage are designed to help you and your family stay healthy. We also have paid time off (PTO) to balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending upon the specifics of the role.
U.S. affiliates of AltaGas are committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, matriculation, physical or mental disabilities, political affiliation, genetic information, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Skills Required
- 8-12+ years of progressive experience in organizational design, workforce strategy, management consulting, or enterprise transformation
- Expertise in organizational design, operating model transformation, and workforce strategy within complex, asset intensive environments
- Experience supporting utility, energy, infrastructure, or similarly complex organizations through transformation and organizational redesign
- Strong business and financial acumen linking design decisions to cost, productivity, controls, risk, and performance outcomes
- Proven ability to operate as a trusted senior advisor, influencing executives and facilitating high-stakes decision forums
- Advanced analytical, modeling, and scenario planning capability and comfort with data-backed storytelling
- Exceptional executive communication and workshop facilitation skills with a narrative mindset
- Bachelor's degree
- Graduate degree or formal organizational design certification
- Experience designing organizations in regulated energy and/or multi-jurisdictional environments
What We Do
We are a leading North American infrastructure company connecting customers and markets to affordable and reliable sources of energy. Every day, we leverage the strength of our people and our assets to connect our customers with premier energy solutions – from the well sites of upstream producers, to the doorsteps of homes and businesses, to markets around the world. With a strong portfolio of assets in some of the fastest growing energy markets, including a prominent position in the Montney basin and Utilities in key U.S. jurisdictions, we are developing an integrated footprint capable of delivering sustained value to shareholders and customers for many years to come.
