Senior Manager, Bell AI Fabric Strategy

Summary

Every significant Bell AI Fabric opportunity requires hundreds of questions to be answered: Is sufficient power available? Can connectivity be delivered? What permitting, regulatory, environmental, commercial, community, operational or technical challenges exist? What are the risks and what remains unknown? Should Bell move forward, reshape the opportunity, hold or stop?

This role exists to answer those questions. You will gather and validate facts, structure analyses, coordinate cross-functional diligence, integrate findings, and present clear recommendations. You will become a trusted authority on the facts, risks, dependencies, decisions, and path forward for assigned opportunities and initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Lead opportunity assessment and due diligence
• Lead end-to-end assessment and due diligence for assigned Bell AI Fabric opportunities, from initial assessment through recommendation, decision and execution readiness.
• Coordinate technical, commercial, financial, operational, regulatory, environmental, community, and stakeholder assessments.
• Structure complex and ambiguous questions into clear hypotheses, workstreams, research agendas, analyses and decision frameworks.
• Identify information gaps, unresolved questions and critical assumptions; determine the evidence required and drive practical plans to obtain, validate and document it.
Enable Executive Decision-Making
• Transform large volumes of technical, commercial, financial and stakeholder information into concise, executive decision-ready recommendations.
• Clearly present options, trade-offs, risks, assumptions, dependencies, recommendations and required actions in plain business language.
• Support executive, Board, customer, partner, government, and stakeholder discussions with fact-based analyses and materials.
• Help leaders make timely, high-quality decisions by ensuring information is accurate, complete, and decision-ready.
Serve as the source of truth
• Establish and maintain the authoritative fact base for assigned opportunities and initiatives.
• Ensure assumptions, diligence findings, decisions, risks, dependencies, milestones, stakeholder commitments, and supporting evidence remain current and reliable.
• Maintain clear documentation and records of key decisions, rationale, supporting analyses, and outstanding questions.
• Create visibility into opportunity status, progress, risks, and decision requirements.
Drive cross-functional coordination and execution readiness
• Translate opportunities into integrated workplans with clear deliverables, owners, dependencies, decision points, milestones and timelines.
• Coordinate activities across internal teams, consultants, utilities, engineering partners, government stakeholders, and other external parties
• Manage consultants, contractors and specialist advisors by defining questions and deliverables, challenging assumptions, resolving inconsistencies and integrating findings into coherent recommendations.
• Track commitments, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables to maintain momentum and accountability.
• Escalate material issues, delays, risks and decisions requiring leadership attention; help position approved opportunities for successful execution.
Strengthen governance and repeatability
• Develop, operate and continuously improve a repeatable stage-gate model that advances opportunities using consistent decision criteria, supporting evidence, assumptions, risks and scoring.
• Support prioritization and resource allocation across multiple opportunities and initiatives.
• Contribute to repeatable frameworks, playbooks, diligence processes, decision models and institutional knowledge that strengthen organizational effectiveness as Bell AI Fabric scales.
Deliver strategic analysis and insight
• Conduct primary and secondary research, stakeholder interviews, data analysis, benchmarking and source validation.
• Challenge assumptions, distinguish facts from estimates and unresolved questions, and surface emerging issues that could affect strategic decisions.
• Use AI and analytical tools thoughtfully to accelerate work without replacing independent investigation, critical thinking or verification.
• Integrate inputs from internal experts and external advisors into coherent recommendations.

Critical Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in management consulting, major program delivery, infrastructure development, corporate strategy, business operations, project management, or another environment that develops comparable analytical and execution capabilities.
• Strong experience working in environments characterized by ambiguity, incomplete information, and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to bring structure to complex, ambiguous, cross-functional work and move it from an initial question to an evidence-based recommendation, decision and execution.
• Outstanding ability to synthesize large volumes of information into concise and actionable recommendations.
• Exceptional program and project management capability, including experience building and driving detailed integrated workplans across multiple stakeholders, experts, dependencies, and urgent priorities.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to develop frameworks, evaluate alternatives, test assumptions, and support decision-making.
• Exceptional attention to detail and information-management discipline
• Ability to learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly and ask precise questions of subject-matter experts without overstating personal expertise.
• Strong PowerPoint, executive communication, and storytelling skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive outcomes without formal authority.
• Capacity to manage several urgent priorities, absorb feedback constructively, and remain practical and solutions-oriented under pressure.
• Ability to operate independently while exercising sound judgment and discretion with sensitive information.
• Willingness to work at pace during critical diligence, transaction, and decision-making periods.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in digital infrastructure, telecommunications, data centres, energy, utilities, engineering, real estate development, or related sectors.
• Experience supporting executive decision-making through the development and presentation of business cases, recommendations, risks, and strategic options.
• Experience coordinating complex diligence efforts involving multiple technical and functional disciplines.
• Familiarity with site development, power infrastructure, network infrastructure, permitting, environmental assessments, or large-scale infrastructure delivery.
• Experience designing stage-gate governance models, prioritization frameworks, decision processes, or diligence methodologies.
• Experience managing consultants, advisors, or external subject matter experts.
• A pragmatic, low-ego working style and a bias toward solving problems and making progress.
• Ambition to grow into broader leadership roles, matched by self-motivation, continuous improvement, and a reputation for reliably making important work happen.
• French-English bilingualism is an asset