TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods Looking for Sr. Project Manager at Toronto, ON Full Time

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods 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 & Consumer Goods is leveraging our world-leading technology and innovation to create better producer-to-consumer outcomes. To do this, we are creating a unified, trusted and sustainable value chain that enables the most efficient production and logistics outcomes, while lowering the impact on the environment. We deliver actionable digital solutions and data insights that connect global supply chains, improving the safety, quality and sustainability of food and consumer goods, all in a way that’s traceable and clear to the end consumer.

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 are comprised of the latest technologies that enable our customers to optimize their businesses and move goods through supply chains with more accuracy, efficiency and profit to get the right products to shelf, at the right time and at the right price, creating more sustainable production and consumption outcomes.

You are a highly motivated project management professional with resiliency, agility and grit, who can thrive in an ever-changing environment. You are a people leader that understands when to apply processes versus when to empower creative decision making in team members. As a problem solver with a bias for action, you will leverage your programmatic approach to overcome challenges of ambiguous concepts, to clear roadblocks and to resolve issues. You are comfortable managing competing priorities in pressured situations and have demonstrated the ability to lead multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams in a matrix structure.

Your effective process implementation and practice development skills will be central to taking a strong group of individuals and turning them into highly functional project teams. Your organizational skills will guide disparate groups towards a shared goal and you are comfortable presenting the story to senior leaders and executive audiences with clear and concise messaging.

If you thrive in an environment where you are challenged, your voice matters, and are looking to contribute to a highly engaged team culture where there are ongoing opportunities to learn, then we’d love to hear from you!

• In this position, you will use your exceptional project management skills along with a superior knowledge of Agile methodologies to successfully organize, manage, and deliver on critical product development projects for our business.

• You will work collaboratively to bring together team members from across TAC and TELUS to carry out technology and process consolidation, lead project and product implementation, and support strategic programs spanning growth strategy, planning and operational excellence.

Here’s how

• You will apply your strong project management skills to successfully drive solution platform consolidation with a global, cross-functional team
• Create, maintain, and track project documentation throughout the lifecycle of the projects assigned and ensure documentation is standardized across project streams
• Implement a more formalized Scrum methodology into the project teams as an Agile coach and initially fill the role of a Scrum Master
• Drive governance, risk management plans and mitigation strategies to ensure effective, forward thinking project processes are adhered to
• Proactively engage internal teams, TELUS stakeholders and vendors to resolve issues
• Partner with Finance, Product, Sales, Business, and Marketing teams to manage business cases with cost-benefit analysis and compelling business benefit
• Develop effective presentations, reporting and comprehensive program updates for working-level up to executive audiences. Building and presenting executive level presentations or project status, business cases, and other relevant project topics.
• Work to build process and structure for project management across all of TAC with the PMO Director and other project managers, maturing our organization’s project delivery concept
• Develop relationships across the organization while contributing to a collaborative and respectful work environment
• Leading large scope initiatives, a cross-functional project team and driving project progress to delivery excites you
• Managing change in a dynamic environment with a diverse group of team members energizes you
• You consider roadblocks and potential delays as challenging opportunities you are eager to solve
• You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity and are skilled at prioritization and collaborative team building
• You relish leading the charge in being the key contact for the business and leadership team
• You are resilient and adept at challenging the status quo by constantly observing, being curious and asking questions, sharing ideas
• You have translated stakeholder needs into strategic pitches which have secured executive approval and budget to proceed (you may have delivered the proposals yourself, or supported senior leaders to present the messages)
• You are comfortable communicating and tailoring your language to a variety of audiences

What you bring to this role

Must have

• Demonstrated senior level experience leading projects and programs utilizing Agile methodologies and practices, delivering complex initiatives from creation through implementation.
• Experience with Product development lifecycle and tools (eg, Jira, Confluence, Aha!, tableau, SFDC, CRM)
• Ability to effectively manage multiple and challenging dynamics within a cross functional team
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate ideas, concepts or complex issues in a clear and concise manner to diverse audiences
• Proven ability to build strong collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Advanced problem solving skills with attention to detail
• A self-starter and leader that consistently takes the initiative to manage workload and drive productivity and results
• Solid negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Sense of urgency and ability to drive issues to closure despite competing priorities from various stakeholders
• Program and/or Project Management certification or equivalent experience

Great-to-haves

• Knowledge and experience in Agriculture and Agribusiness industry
• Project Management in a SaaS environment
• Experience working within a global organization
• Strong knowledge of company and project finance concepts
• A clear understanding of multiple project management methodologies, Waterfall, Agile (Scrum & Kanban), LEAN, Hybrid, etc. and where best to apply them
• Experience with Product Management and/or Product Development

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 & Consumer Goods. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do or how you do it, at TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods, 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.

Accessibility

TELUS Agriculture is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.