Where Practical Meets Purpose | Where Leadership Means More

You’re not just looking for a job change – you’re seeking a role where your talent for orchestrating people, processes, and progress can truly thrive. You love to bring clarity to complexity. You think in systems, operate with heart, and thrive when your work has a meaningful ripple effect. Welcome to a leadership opportunity where how my corporate services client operates matters just as much as what they deliver.

The Position | This isn’t about keeping the trains running on time – this is about making sure they are on the right track, the ride is smooth, and every passenger knows where they’re heading.

As the Director of Operations, you’ll play a central role in elevating how we work across people, process, and performance. You’ll help my client stay grounded in execution while ensuring the organization is humming with healthy, sustainable energy. While you won’t be leading financial strategy, your ability to read and interpret financial reports will allow you to steer resources wisely and support smart decisions.

You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the Executive Team, serving as the glue that holds cross-functional goals together and the engine that drives them forward. From optimizing day-to-day systems and ensuring resource alignment to elevating how we hire, onboard, and engage talent – this is a role for someone who makes things better without ever losing sight of the people doing the work.

Your 1st Year | Those first few months are always crazy as you acquaint yourself with your new environment. However, you can expect your first year to be quite rewarding. You will focus on building strong, trust-filled relationships; streamlining and strengthening operational practices across systems, people, and performance; supporting the cohesion of a shared leadership model. You’ll lead initiatives that elevate recruitment and hiring, onboarding, and talent engagement – always with a lens toward sustainability, alignment, and impact. You’ll navigate operations with a strategic mindset and a hands-on approach, rolling up your sleeves when delving into operational efforts and projects, including people management, technology advancement, ongoing marketing initiatives and client satisfaction, all while always keeping an eye on the big picture. You definitely won’t be bored!

Who You Are | You’re the kind of leader who listens with intention, acts with integrity, and brings out the best in people. You use data and experience to drive decisions, seek and give feedback with kind openness, and possess the know how to build momentum through collaboration. Whether managing vendors, implementing new systems, or facilitating honest conversations, you’re committed to excellence without ego. You value clarity over complexity, celebrate shared wins, and hold the pulse of the organization with care and attention. You lead not with positional power but with influence, intuition, and a deeply rooted sense of purpose. If this sounds like your kind of leadership, we would love to meet you.

Expectations | For applying your value proposition to this organization, my client is ready to offer you a six figure salary, bonus, superb healthcare benefits, company-paid underground parking, flexibility, vacation, education/fee coverage, community volunteering involvement time, and other perks that contribute to your work joy. In turn, they will leverage on your progressive experience in business operations, including participation in senior leadership meetings, management of cross-functional teams, streamlining processes, and driving organizational efficiency. Proficiency in reading financial reports, creating and overseeing operations budgets and offering an exposure to technology, HR and marketing is very valuable. Strong analytical skills, critical thinking, planning and execution capabilities, and exceptional communication are vital for aligning with this organization. Finally, a commitment to people management, optimization and continuous improvement will position you well to effectively lead and innovate within this dynamic corporate services environments.

Exploration | Rather than sending your resume, reach out and let me know that there is interest in this role. Then we can set up a confidential and informal time to chat. I can share my insights about the role and you can tell me more about yourself. At that time, I can also share the Leadership Opportunity Profile. If we are both on the same page after that discussion, we can then move to the more formal processes of this search. If so, feel free to reach out to me at cindy@avidexec.com, Principal, AVID EXEC or via Linked In messenger. I look forward to exploring this position with you.

You Should Know | The selected candidate may be asked to satisfactorily meet the pre-employment conditions: Enhanced EPS Information Check or Enhanced RCMP Criminal Record Check, Child Intervention Record Check, Education Confirmation and a Soft Credit Check/Credit Score (this role has direct access to the firm’s finances and accounts). Strong consideration will be given to those candidates who currently reside in the Edmonton area (no relocation offered) and who possess Canadian residency or citizenship. My client is very committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. We welcome all qualified candidates to apply. All information provided is kept in the strictest of confidence, in keeping with all applicable legislation.