Director of Technical Project Management at TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods

Join our team

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods (TAC) 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

TAC 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 are comprised 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.

The Project Management Office (PMO) ensures that TAC projects are executed effectively and efficiently, assuring delivery on time and within budget. The PMO is responsible for developing and maintaining high standards by establishing best-in-class project management methodologies, standards, and tools. The Director communicates to Executive Management on all projects within the program portfolio. The Director of PMO oversees the project management process, including governance, team leadership, monitoring, prioritization, communication, and quality controls. The PMO Director should have a proven track record of successful project delivery, an ability to improve project management practices, and substantial team leadership experience with a focus on team development in a software engineering context.
This position reports directly to the Vice President of Engineering.

Here’s how

• Establish the PMO role and create a Center of Excellence in alignment with Project Management Institute (PMI) guidelines, quality standards, and company requirements
• Develop, implement, and govern program management processes, dashboards, templates, policies, and metrics
• Monitor compliance with project policies and standards
• Oversee Project Managers for the delivery of projects/programs on time, within the scope, and on budget
• Oversee outside vendor(s) to supplement staffing of projects/programs
• Interface with financial teams to ensure Capital projects are performing as budgeted
• Lead collaboration across organizational boundaries to build an end-to-end commercial solutions and Engineering capabilities
• Be able to develop solution requirements by working with various stakeholders
• Manage projects and interface with agile teams using agile SDLC methodologies.
• Maintain excellent communication with stakeholders to ensure early identification of issues and report those in a timely manner
• Be comfortable operating with uncertainty, know how to create order from chaos
• Build credibility and buy-in from teams and influence without authority
• Coach and mentor PMO team members and share knowledge of best practices
• Set annual performance targets for direct reports and conduct performance reviews

You're the missing piece of the puzzle

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience
• 8+ years of Technical Project Management experience in an agile software development organization
• Expert-level knowledge of project and change management, methodologies, techniques, and processes
• Flexible, adaptable, and resourceful when managing changing timelines and multiple deliverables
• Experience with project management tools such as Confluence/Jira
• Excellent balance of interpersonal, organizational, and technical skills
• Ability to evangelize and represent a technical community
• Proven experience in leading globally distributed teams
• Ability to define and manage project requirements/exit criteria and assist in high-level estimations
• Ability to communicate business needs to technical people and to communicate and simplify complex technical information for non-technical people
• Proven ability to negotiate and problem solve, navigating complex situations and ambiguity
• Experience managing and tracking budgets
• Business Analytics & Reporting skills needed for data-driven decisions and team/project reporting
• Strong relationship building/partnering skills with global cross-functional teams and the ability to work with varying levels of individual contributors and management
• Experience managing and delivering end-user expectations
• Ability to motivate, inspire, and influence the team to deliver stellar products and quality

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. 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 & Consumer Goods 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.

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