Senior Consultant, Project Lead

Jobtailor; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

ADAPTOVATE is seeking a senior consultant to lead AI-enabled transformation engagements across diverse client environments. You will partner with senior leaders, diagnose challenges, and shape pragmatic solutions that drive measurable value.

Responsibilities include managing projects, coaching teams, and supporting opportunity shaping, proposals, and client discussions. Travel as required and a focus on delivering durable, data-driven change.

Qualifications

• Typically 8+ years of experience in consulting, strategy, transformation, or a fast-paced business environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead consulting engagements and major workstreams from problem definition through recommendation, implementation, and adoption.

Skills

Consulting Project Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Business Development

Organisational Transformation

Tools

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Job description

• Lead consulting engagements and major workstreams from problem definition through recommendation, implementation, and adoption
• Partner with senior client leaders to understand strategic priorities, diagnose business challenges, and shape practical solutions
• Conduct and oversee market, industry, organisational, and operational analysis
• Structure complex and ambiguous business problems and translate insights into commercially relevant recommendations
• Lead work across business strategy, operating model design, process improvement, organisational transformation, and change
• Translate business priorities into AI use cases, transformation roadmaps, adoption plans, and measurable value opportunities
• Help clients design and implement AI-enabled solutions and process improvements
• Bring practical knowledge of Generative AI and Agentic AI into client conversations
• Lead workshops, executive discussions, and working sessions
• Manage project scope, milestones, risks, dependencies, stakeholder expectations, and output quality
• Coach and develop consultants and associates
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders and advise organisational leaders
• Identify opportunities to expand ADAPTOVATE’s impact within existing client accounts
• Support opportunity shaping, proposal development, pitch preparation, client presentations, and commercial discussions
• Contribute to thought leadership, capability development, and new offerings
• Support clients in building internal capability, embedding new ways of working, and creating sustainable, data-driven, and AI-enabled cultures

Requirements

• Typically 8+ years of experience in consulting, strategy, transformation, or a fast-paced business environment, including significant client-facing delivery experience
• Experience leading consulting projects or major workstreams, with accountability for outcomes, stakeholder management, and team delivery
• Strong commercial awareness and an interest in contributing to business development, account growth, and new client opportunities
• Experience building senior client relationships and identifying opportunities to expand or deepen existing engagements
• Experience contributing to proposals, pitches, statements of work, or other business development activities
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI demonstrated through action — built something, automated a workflow, experimented meaningfully with AI tools, or developed a deeper understanding than the average productivity user
• Ability to connect AI and emerging technologies to real business problems
• Strong strategic, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Experience across process improvement, operating model design, transformation, organisational change, or operational improvement initiatives
• Strong project leadership skills
• Strong coaching mindset and experience developing junior team members and client teams
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and executive presentation skills
• Confidence working with senior leaders and challenging thinking constructively when required
• Highly adaptable, proactive, commercially minded, and comfortable working across diverse client environments and team structures
• Willingness to travel as required

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading consulting engagements, developing AI-enabled solutions, and driving organisational transformation. Strong ability to build client relationships, manage project outcomes, and contribute to business development initiatives.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Consulting Project Leadership
• AI-Enabled Solutions Development
• Stakeholder Management
• Business Development
• Organisational Transformation

Hard Skills

• Market Analysis
• Operational Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Operating Model Design
• Change Management
• AI Use Case Development
• Data-Driven Culture Implementation
• Strategic Problem Solving
• Proposal Development
• Client Presentations

Soft Skills

• Coaching Mindset
• Excellent Communication
• Facilitation Skills
• Adaptability
• Proactive Approach

Industry Keywords

• Consulting
• Strategy
• Transformation
• Client Engagement
• Business Development

Tools & Technologies

• Generative AI
• Agentic AI