Sr Business Functional Consultant, Transformation - Organization Design

Xcel Energy; Wisconsin; Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Program

Medical/Pharmacy Plan

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Dependent Care Reimbursement Account

Health Care Reimbursement Account

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Limited-Purpose FSA

Transportation Reimbursement Account

Short‑term disability (STD)

Long‑term disability (LTD)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

Xcel Energy is seeking a Sr Business Functional Consultant, Transformation specializing in Organization Design to lead design and integration efforts across transformation programs. You will collaborate with HR and business analysts to define workforce and operating models and translate business needs into actionable future-state recommendations.

The role requires strong communication and analytical skills, a background in utilities, and 5+ years in related transformation work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field.
• Strong understanding of utility processes and performance drivers.
• Excellent communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• 5+ years in operations, business process improvement or service delivery or transformation, operating model enablement, change enablement.

Responsibilities

• Assess and analyze workforce, role and operating model impacts across Transformation program design and deployment.
• Enable strategic workforce and operating model decisions by translating requirements into implications for roles and deployment models.
• Facilitate cross-functional working sessions with stakeholders to align workforce impacts, sequencing and readiness actions.
• Support integration of workforce impacts into HR practices through HR-owned processes.

Skills

Strong communication

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Change enablement

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or related field

Job description

Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow? A position at Xcel Energy could be just what you're looking for.

Sr Business Functional Consultant, Transformation - Organization Design

Position Summary:

The Sr Business Consultant, Transformation - Organizational Design leads moderately complex design and integration efforts across transformation or major project initiatives. Operating with independence, the role engages cross-functional partners, assesses upstream/downstream impacts, and translates business needs into actionable future state recommendations. This role is a program facing role within the Transformation Readiness domain, responsible for enabling workforce design/operating model in partnership with HR and different BAs, supporting the leader. The role supports enterprise transformation initiatives by assessing organizational impacts, analyzing workforce, role, and operating model implications, and helping leaders navigate change.

The role facilitates stakeholder discussions, develops analyses and recommendations, and supports business readiness and implementation planning activities. The role contributes to organization design, operating model development, workforce impact assessment, and future-state organizational planning to help ensure transformation objectives are achieved while minimizing disruption to business operations and employee experience.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Assess and analyze workforce, role and operating model impacts resulting from Transformation program design and deployment decisions across impacted Business Areas. Create appropriate models for interim(implementation), stabilization and optimization.
• Enable strategic workforce and operating model decisions by translating program requirements into clear implications for roles, skills, deployment models and ways of working.
• Help facilitate cross functional working sessions with BAs, HRBPs, TPMO, other internal stakeholders and external strategic vendor partners (e.g., Business Integrator) to align workforce impacts, sequencing and readiness actions.
• Support integration of workforce impacts into existing HR practices (e.g., job architecture, staffing approaches) through HR-owned processes in close partnership with HRBPs.
• Identify workforce related risks (e.g., capacity, readiness, labor considerations) and escalation material tradeoffs or unresolved issues to the senior leadership.
• Support program culture enablement identifying changes required to decision norms, collaboration models and leader behaviors tied to future state operating model.

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.
• 5+ years in operations, business process improvement or service delivery or transformation, operating model enablement, change enablement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Some Travel required to CO, MN
• Hybrid work schedule (Tues -Thurs)
• Experience facilitating workshops, stakeholder discussions, and cross-functional working sessions.
• Experience conducting workforce, role, organization design, and operating model impact analyses resulting from transformation program, process, and technology deployment decisions across impacted Business Areas.

As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company, Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy‑related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states. At Xcel Energy, we strive to be the preferred and trusted provider of the energy our customers need. If you're ready to be a part of something big, we invite you to join our team.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at [e-mail] .

Non‑Bargaining

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $84,900.00 to $120,567.00 per year

• Annual Incentive Program
• Medical/Pharmacy Plan
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Dependent Care Reimbursement Account
• Health Care Reimbursement 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)