Business Improvement Advisor

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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that’s where you come
in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our
customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond
during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a
solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.

We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be
ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we
build an even cleaner B.C.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Duties**:

- BC Hydro’s Supply Chain function is integral to keeping the business running and the lights on.

BC Hydro is transforming its Supply Chain model through the implementation of a full category
management capability to better meet the business’ requirements for quality, safety and reliability
in what we buy for the best total cost and to ensure mutually beneficial supplier relationships.
- The Operations & Enterprise Supply Chain group is accountable to develop and implement

strategies for the key categories that account for over 80% of BC Hydro’s annual $2 billion
expenditures. Categories are organized in the following portfolios: Enterprise, Major Equipment,
Engineering & Technical Services, Materials & Logistics and Field Support Services. Our job is to
give BC Hydro confidence that it is getting the best overall value from its overall expenditure. We
are well into our multi-year transformational journey and we now have an opening for a Business
Improvement Advisor (BIA).
- BIA’s are part of Supply Chain internal consultancy that are members of a number of cross
- functional teams that develop multi-year category strategies related to plan-to-pay business
change/ process optimization, sourcing, supplier management and contract management. The
mission of the Business Improvement Advisor (BIA) is to create clarity through structured strategic
analysis, ensure discipline and rigour is applied to solve complex problems and decisions, and
implement sustainable change in order to produce the highest value outcomes for our key
categories.

passion for business improvement. BIA’s are trusted advisors that bring value in both leading and
supporting roles through their extensive experience with business analysis, modelling, structured
decision making and project management. They are able to draw out collaborative insights,
improvement prioritization and problem solving through structured frameworks to ensure decisions
are effective and fact-based. BIA’s have developed quantitative, financial, statistical analysis and
visual presentment of cost/benefits valuation, and decision support tools (e.g. options models/
- requirements for business process improvement using a variety of frameworks and has a track
- record of successfully implementing change projects.- Our team of BIA’s are accountable for the following high level outcomes:

- Informs viability of Category Management strategy and change projects using structured and

thorough impartial analysis, objective logic and fact based decision making- Leads collaborative working groups that build collective understanding, support and

implementation of business improvement opportunities- Leads complex sourcing evaluations ensuring they are fair, transparent and will lead to BC

Hydro having an optimal supply base and business continuity- Contributes to the advancement and sustainment of business improvement, business analytics

and decision advisory practices for category management and business change initiatives**Qualifications**:
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- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience in business analysis, process improvement, project management,
- business analysis and/or process improvement.- Proven senior level experience organizing, modelling and translating data and insights into

strategic options and structured decision making- Communicates effectively verbally and in written form to various levels of audience
- Experience working in relevant industry; in a team-based environment that is complex, with

multiple stakeholders and strategic considerations.
- Core Skills/Abilities/ Competencies:
- Analytical & Forward Thinking: Be able to create insights and “aha’ moments by thinking broadly

and deeply and considers the overall big picture- Quick Learner and Growth Mindset: Must quickly learn BC Hydro processes, category

management framework and the different aspects of our
- delivery, corporate)- Relationship Builder: Build relationships by truly seeking to understand business priorities and

core requirements- Persuasive Communications: Conveys information to people clearly and concisely, and in a w