As a Business Advisor, Operations within BDC Advisory Services, you act as a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs and leadership teams seeking to improve operational performance, accelerate growth, and strengthen organizational capabilities.
This position resides within Advisory Services and serves Canadian small and medium-sized businesses through advisory mandates.
The successful candidate combines deep operational expertise with strong knowledge of the technologies that enable modern manufacturing, distribution, logistics, and service operations. They understand how business processes, management systems, operational technologies, data, automation, and artificial intelligence work together to improve productivity, scalability, decision-making, and business performance.
The Business Advisor delivers both standard and customized consulting mandates, manages end-to-end project delivery, acts as a subject matter expert, supports solution development, and contributes to business development activities.
The successful candidate understands the technologies driving modern operational performance, including ERP and operational management systems, industrial automation, robotics, smart manufacturing, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence. They can help entrepreneurs evaluate where these technologies create business value and develop practical roadmaps for adoption within SME environments.