Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy. 

Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.

 

Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.

 

Position Summary:

The Principal Business Functional Consultant serves as a strategic business partner within the Customer Core business area to drive enterprise level transformation outcomes. The role provides deep subject matter expertise, operational insights, and high impact process recommendations to support business readiness and the successful delivery of transformational or major project initiatives.  Focused on non-technical domains, the role bridges current state operations with future state capabilities by representing functional needs, identifying gaps, and enabling sustainable change through collaboration, communication and stakeholder engagement. The Principal Business Functional Consultant influences senior leaders, guides cross-functional teams and ensures customer centric outcomes are prioritized and operationalized effectively. 

Essential Responsibilities:

• Serve as a strategic advisor for business functional teams by providing deep subject matter expertise, operational insights and high impact process recommendations across business functions. 
• Represent functional operations in major program activities, shaping business process design, policy and procedure development, business benefits, KPIs and future state functional architectures. 
• Identify, assess and communicate broad operational impacts of proposed changes, proactively addressing enterprise level risks and misalignments. 
• Guide business functional testing strategy, inform training and change design and ensure user adoption approaches enable sustainable transformation.  
• Partner with cross functional leaders to ensure end-to-end business process integration and customer centric operational continuity. 
• Champion enterprise continuous improvement by elevating systemic pain points and shaping long-term design decisions. 
• Lead development of enterprise performance metrics, reporting frameworks and post implementation value realization measures.
• Establish and maintain business process governance frameworks, including process ownership models, decision rights, escalation paths, and approval structures to ensure consistency and compliance across the enterprise.
• Lead governance forums and stakeholder councils, facilitating decision making, issue resolution, prioritization, and alignment across business and technology teams.
• Define and enforce enterprise process standards, methodologies, documentation requirements, and modeling practices to ensure quality and consistency across all business process artifacts.
• Serve as steward of the enterprise process repository, ensuring process hierarchy integrity, ownership accountability, version control, and ongoing maintenance of business process documentation.
• Partner with business leaders to establish process ownership, accountability models, and governance metrics that support sustainable process management and continuous improvement.
• Monitor adherence to approved process designs, governance standards, and transformation objectives, identifying risks, gaps, and corrective actions as needed.
• Enable business value realization through governance oversight, ensuring process changes are aligned to strategic objectives, measurable outcomes, and operational performance targets. 

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field; or equivalent combination of training and relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of utility processes and performance drivers.
• Excellent communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• 7+ years in operations, business process improvement or service delivery.
   

Preferred Requirements:

• Signavio (SAP)

 

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Non-Bargaining

 

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $120,000.00 to $150,000.00 per year

 

This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO), Parental Leave

 

Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.

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Deadline to Apply: 10/28/26

 

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