TELUS Agriculture is a great place to work. You can see it in our team members. The diversity of the team and their unique contributions set us apart from the competition. Our success is based as much on our future friendly team as the innovative technology solutions we offer.

Our team members include people like you enthusiastic, innovative, passionate and energetic. We believe that you'll find our high-performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging and financially rewarding.

Here s the impact you will make and what we will accomplish together

TELUS Agriculture is leveraging our world-leading technology and innovation to tackle one of the most pressing social challenges of our time achieving more efficient production while lowering the impact on the environment. We believe that by delivering data insights and digital solutions that empower and connect producers to consumers we can improve the quality, safety and sustainability of our food and consumer goods.

We offer an unmatched suite of innovative solutions and purpose-built applications for every participant in the supply chain, from seed manufacturers and farmers through to grocery stores and consumer goods companies. Our solutions consist of the latest technologies that enable our customers to optimize their businesses with more accuracy, efficiency and profit and create unified, trusted and sustainable food and consumer goods value chains.

As vice president of data science, your responsibilities will notably include targeting audiences through both online and offline data. You will lead a team of analysts, manage client needs, and implement solutions which will contribute to building our brand in the market. As the leader of this organization you will provide thought leadership to the organization, anticipating project risks, and translating analytical science into actionable marketing campaigns.

What you bring to this role

Strong knowledge of data science and good technical skills, as well as leadership and management skills.  Specifically, you need to have prior experience in:

• Building out a data science team and leading the company's global data science function.
• Setting out the vision for the data science and analytics team.
• Hands on experience building and implementing machine learning modules to solve business problems.
• Hands on Geospatial analytics skills.
• Defining the data strategy and working to establish the Telus Agriculture ontologies. 

Your knowledge toolkit

• Extensive hands-on experience in data science and machine learning.
• Experience building a team / data science function.
• Experience applying machine learning/statistical modeling to effectively solve business problems.
• Domain expertise in one or more of Agriculture, Supply Chain, Food & CPG industries.

• Geospatial Analytics experience would be an asset.

Qualifications

            Educated to Postgraduate level in a STEM degree.

Join Us

Collectively, our talented team and integrated solutions uniquely position us to transform collaboration within the industry at a global level, empowering and connecting producers to consumers for a more efficient, sustainable future.

Everyone belongs at TELUS Agriculture. It doesn t matter who you are, what you do or how you do it, at TELUS Agriculture, your unique contribution and talents will be valued and respected. Because the more diverse perspectives we have the more likely we are to crack the code on what our customers want and our communities need.

Do you share our passion for enabling remarkable human outcomes?

Together, let s make the future friendly.