Position Snapshot
Business areas: Nestlé Canada
Job title: Specialist Product Ownership Citizen Development
Location: 25 Sheppard Ave W – North York, ON; 
Compensation Range: $85,000 – $100,000 CAD
Hybrid

At Nestle Canada, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation and job posting practices. This position offers a competitive salary within the range specified above, in compliance with Ontario's pay transparency regulations.

A little bit about us

While Nestlé is known for KitKat, Gerber, Nescafe, and Häagen-Dazs, our recipe for success comes down to one thing: our people.  We strive to lead a people-focused culture that empowers employees to bring their authentic selves to work each day. There are 3,000+ members of Nestlé Canada celebrated for taking action using agility, courage, and trust to find solutions that benefit the business or greater good. We’re a team of changemakers, who are curious and challenge the status quo, that take risks that will help drive us forward. Our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, but also about enriching you. We know that empowerment leads to strong employee engagement, a great work culture, and motivated employees

Position Summary 

We are looking for a Specialist, Product Ownership – Citizen Development to lead and scale Nestlé Canada’s growing Citizen Development community. This role is a catalyst for digital transformation, empowering employees across the business to reimagine how work gets done through the Microsoft Power Platform and Responsible AI. Note: this is an existing vacancy.

A day in the life of a Specialist Product Ownership Citizen Development:

In this highly influential role, you will serve as strategist, coach, and community leader—enabling safe, scalable low code/no code development while promoting a movement of digitally confident creators. You’ll design training, build reusable assets, uphold governance guardrails, and partner with cross functional teams to drive innovation responsibly. This is a unique opportunity to shape transformation at scale while uplifting digital skills across an entire market.

Community & Enablement Leadership

•    Lead, grow, and energize a thriving community of 300+ citizen developers.
•    Build tailored learning paths, modular assets, and composable resources for diverse functions.
•    Host recurring community events, live trainings, showcases, and office hours.
•    Provide 1:1 coaching and solution building guidance to ensure best practice development.
•    Produce internal success stories and storytelling assets that inspire widespread adoption.

Governance & Compliance

•    Embed ASLC, governance, security, and compliance requirements into all enablement work.
•    Align with environment strategy, DLP/connectors policies, and documentation standards.
•    Partner with platform admins, governance teams, and compliance to review solutions.
•    Support solution intake, triage, and escalation processes.

Practice Resources & Responsible AI

•    Create and curate reusable templates, prompts, Copilot resources, accelerators, and data models.
•    Champion Responsible AI principles across patterns, training, and solution reviews.
•    Establish starter kits and accelerators that speed development while maintaining safety.

Data, Metrics & Value Realization

•    Maintain data foundations aligned to the Technology Enablement Data Maturity Index.
•    Track adoption, maturity, participation, pipeline, and compliance health.
•    Produce impact stories, ROI summaries, and value measurement reporting.

Change Leadership & Transformation

•    Design change management plans, readiness assessments, and adoption strategies.
•    Lead newsletters, communication campaigns, and internal marketing initiatives.
•    Inspire mindset shifts through demos, storytelling, and “art of the possible” experiences.

What will make you successful?

•    3–5+ years of experience driving digital enablement, skill building, or transformation programs.
•    Proven experience designing and delivering high impact training for non technical users.
•    Strong hands on capabilities in Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, SharePoint, Dataverse.
•    Familiarity with platform governance: environments, DLP, connectors, secure data practices.
•    Experience building reusable assets, templates, and accelerators.
•    Experience coaching creators through office hours and solution reviews.
•    Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals certification (or equivalent) is an asset.
•    Exposure to Responsible AI, prompt engineering, and Copilot for Microsoft 365.

Preferred Skills

•    Exceptional storytelling and communication—able to simplify complex concepts.
•    Skilled facilitator comfortable engaging senior leaders and influencing decisions.
•    Strong coaching, mentoring, and relationship building abilities.
•    High emotional intelligence and empathy to support teams through change.
•    Curious, innovative, self starting, resilient, and inclusive.
 
We have a friendly, supportive team with a coaching and mentoring environment. There are real opportunities for future development and progression – this really could be a move towards the exciting finance career you’ve always wanted. 

Benefits

•    Comprehensive total rewards benefits package including Health and Dental benefits that start on day one of employment 
•    Company matched pension plan 
•    Three weeks of Vacation and five personal days (Personal Paid Holidays) 
•    Flexible and hybrid work arrangements 
•    Excellent training and development programs as well as opportunities to grow within the company 
•    Access to Educational Assistance & Tuition Reimbursement 
•    Bonus eligibility 
•    Access to the Discount Company store with Nestlé, Nespresso, and Purina products (Located across various Nestle offices/sites) 
•    Additional discounts on a variety of products and services offered by our preferred vendors and partnerships

What you need to know

We will be considering applicants as they apply, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.  
Nestlé Canada is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. We welcome qualified applicants to bring their diverse and unique experiences as a result of their education, perspectives, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. 
If you are selected to participate in the recruitment process, please inform Human Resources of any accommodations you may require. Nestlé will work with you in an effort to ensure that you are able to fully participate in the process.

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