Position Snapshot
Business area: Nestlé Canada Inc.
Location: North York, ON located at 25 Sheppard Ave W, North York, ON M2N 6S8; Hybrid

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.

What to Expect: 
You will drive the vision, strategy, and implementation of digital transformation and process re-engineering within Nestlé Canada Inc. via leading a team of software engineers, data scientists, and data visualization experts to build innovative technical solutions that leverage cutting edge technologies.

A day in the life:
Setting the vision, aligning the strategy, and implementing automation & digital transformation solutions that will unlock personnel time, provide enhanced consistency, control, and visibility to financial data, and deliver greater business insights for the Canadian finance team. In this role, you will be leading two technical teams: the Analytics & Data Visualization team (Business Intelligence) and the Data Science & Automation team (IT & Automation Solutions).

• Act as a results focused People Leader who leads to win and enables results through others. Collaborate extensively with other IT Heads locally and in other markets to participate in vision and strategy building, share expertise, coordinate successful implementation of projects, and to resolve technical problems.
•  Act as a Project Manager that prioritizes the pipeline of business requests: Make business-beneficial trade-offs of a deep project pipeline to ensure both the activation of the strategy and the urgent needs of the business.
•  Act as a Management Consultant that inspires the organization, develops and executes digital transformation strategy, and leads change via bridging the gap between the business world and the IT world.
• Act as an Analytics Consultant that understands the business environment and influences decision making to develop/implement an accelerated transformative business analytics strategy.
• Act as a Technical Consultant with solid technical expertise that leads a highly technical team of software engineers. See the big picture and translate complex business projects into high level engineering requirements and action plans.

Role Requirements

• Highly developed leadership competencies in change management, collaboration, influencing others, strategic thinking, effective communication and leading/developing people. 
• 10+ years of collective progressive experience covering multiple strategic aspects of IT and Business. This includes Technical and Commercial understanding and cross-functional experience.
• Solid IT expertise to be able to manage and coach software engineers.

Preferred Skills 

• University graduate in Computer Science, Data Science, or similar disciplines. Additional Master’s degree and/or business/finance degree are considered ideal assets for this role which needs both: deep business and technical expertise.
• Strong organizational planning skills and able to communicate with various functions and across all managerial levels to present and discuss information, issues and problems related to a specific project.
• Experience guiding a team through project planning and coaching to enable the team to be strong advocates for change and transformation. Able to influence decision makers in adopting new processes and tools.

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards benefits package including Health and Dental benefits that start on day one of employment 
• Company matched pension plan 
• Four weeks of Vacation and six 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 
• Gender affirmation benefits to ensure access to necessary care, resources, and coverage for gender-affirming procedures 
• Fertility Services and Surrogacy Medical Coverage to support the pursuit of a path to parenthood regardless of medical conditions, gender or sexual orientation 
• Adoption benefits to remove some of the financial barriers associated with adoption 
• Up to 50% off – Nespresso Coffee Machine, Capsules and accessories 
• 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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