Digital Lead, Farm of The Future

3 weeks ago

FlorencevilleBristol, Canada McCain Foods (Canada) Full time

**Position Title**:Digital Lead, Farm of the Future

**Position Type**: Regular - Full-Time

**Position Location**: Florenceville Main

**Grade**: Grade 06

**Requisition ID**: 21446

We know the importance that food plays in people's lives - the power it has to bring people, families, and communities together. Our purpose is to bring enjoyment to people’s lives through great-tasting food, in a way that reflects our values.

**OVERVIEW**

The Digital Lead will play a key role in creating a standard business process, procedures, building digital solutions and architecture to connect farm activities data end to end, implementing precision agriculture farm methods and integrating analytics, AI into farm business and operationalizing R&D technology projects to drive sustainable, repeatable regenerative agriculture practices. This role will be key to transform our McCain farms to become a best-in-class digitally enabled data-led precision farm. You will work with McCain Farms, cross-functional and cross-regional colleagues as well as our data sciences, research, and university partners.

**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Own and enhance McCain farms architechture and build a connected smart digital farm and implement precision agriculture methods and tools
- Working with Farm managers to create standard business processes for all activites, including data capture in every step, supporting operating procedures to onboard farm team members
- Collaborating with cross-functional team to build and implement digital solutions at the farm and data to share actionable insights with McCain Farms, Growers, and other key stakeholders
- Work with cross-functional team to build a centralized data collection architecture, data model to store and report on all data capture using digital tools, machineries, IOT, internal and external data
- Support smart and sustainable agriculture strategy and roadmap development related to digital, data sources, tools, capabilities, processes, dashboards, and whitespace opportunities, etc.
- Build relationships with McCain Farms globally to identify value-driving use cases for digitalizing farm activities and use analytics / AI
- Create stage gate process, and standardize design experiments to manage/track R&D projects including building a plan to operationalize successful technology projects by working with Farm managers and R&D partners
- Work with farm team members and train them to follow the standard process and data collection in every step to analyze, measure, and report to improve farm practices
- Conduct data quality analysis to identify data issues at the early stage and address the issues
- Work with interns and graduates and standardize data collection and process mapping, build dashboards, reports, and models as required
- Define and scope a delivery approach against targeted use cases; confirm KPIs and expected value delivery. Mockup Proof-of-concept (POCs) or wireframes of analytics outputs to ensure alignment with stakeholders
- Proactively partner with cross-functional and cross-regional colleagues to deconstruct Farm business issues, generate hypotheses and build/scale digital and analytics tools
- Prepare and present executive-ready presentation materials and deliverables, with a strong ability to craft a compelling narrative to clearly explain digital, data concepts and insights to the grower base
- Be a champion of change to improve data literacy at the farms and growers
- Continue to modernize Digital solutions, data reporting/dashboards to improve adoption and usage
- Lead medium to large-scale projects with close collaboration with technology and McCain Farms and be a key contact to address all technical issues at the farm
- Participate in Farm activities to improve the use of digital and data solutions

**SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL SHOW**:

- Demonstrated a history of driving change in the organization
- Implemented sustainable standard practices and supporting digital solutions
- Knowledge and experience working with digital, data to drive decision making
- Strong awareness of data best practices and what is possible with rich data
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build compelling narratives with Digital and data and convince stakeholders
- Ability to frame and complete a high-level business case as part of driving change
- Have a “get things done” attitude. This role is about inspiring change but also committing to your business leaders to get them the data they need
- Ability to “get hands dirty” and hands-on, and develop digital solutions, dashboards, and work with Technology teams

**KEY QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCES**:

- Master’s degree in Data Analytics / AI or other relevant combination of education and experience
- Experience in building standard processes and procedures, architecture designs, and methodologies to manage projects
- Experience with requirement analysis (interviewing, facilitation, gap analysis, data analysis, business proce

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