Position Overview
We are looking for a President, Essential Services to lead a newly integrated business unit spanning Health, Nuclear, and IT Professional Services. This full P&L leadership role offers the opportunity to drive strategy, growth, and operational excellence across a complex, multi-service portfolio. Reporting to the CEO, you will act as both a builder and an operator—delivering results today while shaping the next phase of growth for Essential Services.
Responsibilities
What You’ll Own
- Growth, profitability, and operational performance
- Full P&L accountability for Essential Services
- Leadership across Health, Nuclear, and IT Professional Services
- Integration of teams, operating models, and go-to-market
- Strengthening the team, working relationships and succession
- Executive engagement with the CEO, the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and the Board
What You’ll Do
Drive Growth & Strategy
- Set and execute a clear, multi-year strategy for Essential Services
- Deliver organic growth and margin expansion
- Identify and lead strategic investments and M&A opportunities
- Strengthening market positioning across public and private sector clients
- Lead a complex, regulated portfolio with strong operational rigor
- Drive forecasting accuracy, performance management, and accountability
- Ensure consistent delivery, quality, and client experience
- Bring cohesion across business lines and enable a stronger “One Calian” approach
- Align operating models, processes, and governance to support scale
- Lead targeted transformation to modernize how the business runs
- Build, align, and elevate a high-performing leadership team
- Strengthening succession, accountability, and execution discipline
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and performance
- Partner closely with the CEO and executive team on enterprise priorities
- Interface with the Board on performance, strategy, and growth
- Maintain senior client relationships and support key pursuits
Qualifications
- 15+ years of leadership experience in large, complex organizations
- Proven track record of delivering growth, operational performance, and transformation
- Demonstrated P&L ownership of a sizable business unit or portfolio
- Ability to lead across multiple services, business lines, or domains
- Executive presence with experience engaging CEO and Board-level stakeholders
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including exposure to M&A
- Builder and operator mindset, able to scale and transform while delivering results
- Ability to create clarity in complex environments and drive execution with pace
- Systems thinking mindset, connecting strategy, operations, and people
- Experience in relevant sectors such as:
- Healthcare
- Nuclear or regulated environments
- IT/professional services
- Ability to lead through complexity, integration, and change
- Strong collaboration, communication, and people leadership skills
Compensation
Competitive and commensurate with experience
Position Type
We have 1 available position.
Job Title: President Essential Industries
Requisition Number: 2344
Date: April 02, 2026
Location 1: Ottawa
Remote: Yes
Business Unit: Essential Services
Department: Corporate
Job Type: Full-time
#LI-JG1#
#SF#