Vaughan, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
Commercialization Manager - Municipal Smart City Solutions Reporting to: President Location: Based in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. The work will be hybrid but we reserve the right to have the contractor work full-time at…
Skills: Business Development, Municipal Sales, SaaS Sales, Lead Generation, Pipeline Management
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Lead the commercialization and sale of the SSCAP system to municipalities, focusing on direct sales and lead generation. Coordinate product-release readiness from a customer perspective and mentor junior sales and marketing staff.
Requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in business development or software sales, preferably within the municipal or engineering sectors. A post-secondary degree in business, engineering, or environmental science is preferred.
Commercialization Manager - Municipal Smart City Solutions
Reporting to: President
Location: Based in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. The work will be hybrid but we reserve the right to have the contractor work full-time at the office except for sales. Work remotely (hybrid) and while traveling on client-visits. Ontario-focused, with potential opportunities across Canada and the United States.
Compensation: Base salary plus sales performance incentives
About the Business Model
Smart City Water Inc. and Civica Infrastructure Inc. are partnering to commercialize a new Smart City product in Ontario.
Smart City Water Inc. develops innovative and smart software systems for municipal infrastructure management. The systems help municipalities manage drainage infrastructure by automating existing ‘manual’ processes and developing new methods for more accurate collection, analysis, and reporting. This helps municipalities deliver better services faster, safer, and more efficiently. Civica Infrastructure Inc. has been in the business of delivers consulting and field contracting services to municipalities in Ontario that integrate sewer sensors, conducting inspections, analyzing data, and developing models to manage sewer infrastructure.
The Smart City product has the clear potential to significantly change how municipalities manage sewer infrastructure.
We are seeking a highly motivated, senior, and hands-on business development professional to help introduce and grow this new product/service in Ontario. As described in more detail below, the candidate will help complete a marketing and sales strategy involving lead generation and closing software and service sales and build long-term trusting relationships with municipalities.
About the Role
The Commercialization Manager will lead the commercialization and sale of Smart City Water’s SSCAP system and related integration/implementation, maintenance, and derivative consulting and contracting services.
This is a combined sales and management role, with approximately 60% of the focus on direct sales activity and 40% on management, coordination, mentoring, sales-process development, and product-release readiness from a customer perspective.
The successful candidate will be expected to generate qualified municipal leads, arrange meetings, deliver presentations and demonstrations, support proposals, close business, and help build long-term customer relationships. The role will also involve mentoring junior sales and marketing support staff, helping coordinate commercialization activities, and ensuring that product releases are ready for customer adoption.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys building a market, opening doors, explaining technical solutions clearly, guiding a small commercial team, and helping municipalities adopt new technology.
Will need to be in the office as determined by the President.
Initial Commercial Focus
The initial focus will be on the Sanitary Sewer Condition Assessment Platform (SSCAP) system, a Smart City Water cloud software designed to help municipalities improve how they access, interpret, and use sanitary sewer condition (capacity and asset management), monitoring, compliance, and related infrastructure information.
The system is intended to help municipalities move beyond traditional reporting cycles by making relevant infrastructure data more accessible, practical, and actionable for planning, operations, compliance awareness, infrastructure prioritization, and earlier intervention.
Key Responsibilities
The Commercialization Manager will be responsible for:
Target Customers and Stakeholders
The initial role for the initial contract duration will focus primarily on Ontario municipalities, with supplemental in-bound opportunities elsewhere in Canada and the United States where strategically appropriate.
Target stakeholders may include:
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role will be measured by practical commercial outcomes, including:
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, energetic, reliable, and proactive commercial professional with strong communication skills and a proven ability to develop new business in a technical or solution-based environment.
The successful candidate should be comfortable speaking with municipal leaders, engineers, technical staff, public-sector decision-makers, and internal product teams. The role requires someone who can explain technical solutions clearly, build credibility with customers, manage follow-up discipline, and move opportunities forward with persistence and professionalism.
This position is well suited to someone who enjoys both direct selling and commercialization leadership, and who can help bring structure, discipline, and momentum to a growing sales and marketing process.
Required Skills and Capabilities
The successful candidate should have:
Relevant Experience
Municipal software sales experience in engineering is strongly preferred.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in business development, software sales, commercialization, municipal sales, public-sector sales, or a related technical solutions environment.
Candidates without direct municipal software sales experience may be considered if they have strong experience in one or more of the following areas:
Product and Customer Readiness Role
In addition to sales and business development, the Commercialization Manager will help to ensure that new products and features are ready for customer use and provide feedback to the design and development team.
This includes reviewing product releases from the customer’s perspective and helping confirm that features are easy to understand, simple to use, properly documented, connected to help resources, and supported by appropriate rollout checklists.
The Commercialization Manager will work with the design, development, implementation, and customer-support teams to help ensure that product releases are not only technically complete, but also ready for successful adoption by municipal users.
Compensation
Initial compensation will include a base salary plus sales performance incentives. The base salary will consider the preferred candidate’s qualifications. Extension and expansion to the contract and compensation may be made available subject to performance/success.
Smart City Water Inc. is committed to fostering a positive and progressive workplace that reflects the community in which we operate and serve. We provide equitable treatment and accommodation to ensure barrier-free employment in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. You can request for accommodation related to the protected grounds at any stage of our recruitment process by emailing us.
Civica Infrastructure Inc. is a leader in water management solutions.
Civica Infrastructure Inc. is a leader in water management solutions. Our expertise spans across sanitary and storm sewer systems as well as natural watershed asset planning and asset management. Our passion is to grow communities. We achieve this by working with municipalities, land developers, conservation authorities, government agencies and other consulting firms. We are undeterred to advance our clients’ mission by networking, combining efforts and developing tools. Our sister company, Smart City Water has uniquely designed an industry-leading capacity management software that has propelled us as leaders in the industry. We continually innovate to offer niche services to our clients who are looking to optimize the capacity of their existing drainage systems. Since 2012, Civica seeks to understand industry needs and direction to provide turn-key solutions to our trusted partners and clients.
Offices: 155 Winges Rd, Vaughan, Ontario L4L 6C7, CA
Civica Infrastructure Inc. is a leader in water management solutions.
Civica Infrastructure Inc. is a leader in water management solutions. Our expertise spans across sanitary and storm sewer systems as well as natural watershed asset planning and asset management. Our passion is to grow communities. We achieve this by working with municipalities, land developers, conservation authorities, government agencies and other consulting firms. We are undeterred to advance our clients’ mission by networking, combining efforts and developing tools. Our sister company, Smart City Water has uniquely designed an industry-leading capacity management software that has propelled us as leaders in the industry. We continually innovate to offer niche services to our clients who are looking to optimize the capacity of their existing drainage systems. Since 2012, Civica seeks to understand industry needs and direction to provide turn-key solutions to our trusted partners and clients.
Offices: 155 Winges Rd, Vaughan, Ontario L4L 6C7, CA
