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The Manager, Business Operations provides management-level leadership and oversight of Quarry Park Energy Solutions' (QPES) commercial, financial, and operational activities, ensuring opportunities and projects are effectively coordinated from initial client engagement through scoping, costing, contracting, delivery, invoicing, and closeout.
Reporting to the Associate Vice President (AVP), the Manager serves as the central business operations lead, connecting QPES technical teams, clients, and SAIT corporate functions to ensure projects are appropriately planned, resourced, commercially structured, delivered, and financially managed. The role integrates technical, operational, and financial inputs into business proposals, project plans, budgets, forecasts, and recommendations for AVP approval.
The Manager has delegated authority for the day-to-day management of QPES business and financial operations and is accountable for effective budget management, financial controls, forecasting, reporting, and operational processes. The role monitors performance, identifies risks and opportunities, and recommends actions to support sound resource allocation, financial performance, and organizational priorities.
The Manager is accountable for decisions and commitments made within established delegated authorities and financial parameters, while escalating material or strategic matters to the AVP. The AVP retains final approval and overall accountability for major financial, commercial, contractual, and operational decisions.
Through this role, the Manager ensures QPES operates with effective business processes, financial discipline, commercial consistency, and operational coordination, enabling the organization to respond effectively to client needs while supporting successful project delivery and sustainable growth.
How you'll contribute
Commercial Proposals & Project Development
People Management
Project & Operational Coordination
- Own, maintain, and continuously improve QPES project costing models and costing structures.
- Work with technical teams to establish realistic staffing hours, equipment utilization, material requirements, and third-party costs.
- Develop and maintain consistent staffing, equipment, and service costing methodologies.
- Coordinate project pricing and margin analysis for review and approval by the AVP.
- Use actual project performance and operating experience to continuously improve costing models and assumptions.
- Ensure commercial and applied research activities are appropriately costed and financially tracked.
- Coordinate projects from approval through execution, invoicing, and closeout.
- Maintain visibility across active projects, including schedules, budgets, resource requirements, and deliverables.
- Work with technical teams to track project progress and identify potential scope, schedule, resource, or budget issues.
- Coordinate project timesheets and ensure labour is accurately allocated to projects.
- Monitor actual project costs against approved budgets, identify variances, and recommend appropriate actions.
- Follow up with internal teams to ensure required information, approvals, and deliverables are completed on schedule.
- Establish and maintain consistent project management processes across QPES commercial and applied research activities.
- Serve as the internal lead for QPES financial and business operations under the direction of the AVP.
- Coordinate the development and ongoing management of the overall QPES operating budget.
- Monitor revenue, operating expenses, project expenditures, financial commitments, and forecasts.
- Maintain project-level financial reporting and overall visibility into QPES financial performance.
- Coordinate with SAIT Finance on project setup, invoicing, accounts receivable, and financial reporting.
- Ensure client invoices are issued accurately and on schedule, and follow up on outstanding financial items.
- Coordinate purchasing, procurement, and other financial processes required to support project delivery.
- Provide regular financial and operational reporting, analysis, and recommendations to the AVP.
- Act as a primary operational interface between QPES and SAIT corporate services.
- Coordinate requirements involving Finance, Procurement, Contracts, Legal, and other internal groups as required.
- Navigate internal processes and follow up across teams to keep projects and client opportunities moving forward.
- Establish clear and effective workflows between QPES technical teams and SAIT administrative functions.
- Identify process bottlenecks and develop practical solutions to improve project execution and commercial responsiveness.
- Participate in the development of new client and business opportunities.
- Lead commercial scoping discussions with clients and coordinate internal stakeholders to translate client needs into actionable project requirements.
Financial & Business Operations
SAIT & Internal Coordination & Client & Stakeholder Engagement
What you bring
Education
Experience
