2025 New Grad Rotational Program | Data Science Associate (Toronto or Calgary)

New Grad Data Science Associate Spring / Summer 2025 Start

Our Commitment to Students

At Canadian Tire, we are committed to providing students with a supportive and collaborative environment that fosters knowledge sharing and offers key experiences to help them develop their capabilities through projects and objectives.

We believe in setting specific and measurable goals that align with our business objectives to support learning and help students achieve their full potential.

Our culture emphasizes learning from others, continuous improvement, agility, growth, and innovation, and we are invested in building a talented, diverse workforce for the future of Canada and Canadian Tire.

Additionally, we are dedicated to building strong relationships with our student employees by engaging with them throughout their education and career pursuits and creating opportunities for ongoing communication and relationship building.

Location : Toronto or Calgary

Format : Hybrid (Two Days In-Office Weekly)

What You’ll Do

Canadian Tire’s Data Science Rotational Program will provide you with an opportunity to develop broad analytical expertise, work cross functionally with internal and external teams, and be a key member of our data analytics team.

This development program is designed to be a launch pad for a fulfilling and successful career at Canadian Tire, helping us to continue to build an innovative, world-class Canadian Tire Retail team.

The program consists of two progressive 12-month rotations in Merchandising Decision Support, Experimentation, and Business Intelligence.

The DSA incumbent will perform a variety of activities within the rotations related to Data Science & Analytics. These activities may include :

• Data Science / Advanced Analytics : Provide subject matter expertise and create a broad range of data driven solutions by applying a variety of techniques to build out complex models.
• Business Insight Analyst : Responsible for providing subject matter expertise, analytics, and insights to recommend actions that will enable optimal business decisions and / or resolve complex business problems.

Identify opportunities to drive business growth & value.

• Visualization : Provide data visualization expertise and interpretation of data into meaningful insights or visuals to help facilitate business understanding of outcomes and recommendations.
• Business Intelligence : Responsible for the design / development of complex reports, dashboards, and scorecards to support business needs;

ensure alignment of metrics across the organization.

Data Management : Participating in projects by analyzing approaches, processes, and tools to support the business data strategy.

What You’ll Bring

We are looking for students with an expected graduation of December 2024 or Spring / Summer 2025 who are :

You are working toward an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Quantitative Analysis, Statistics, Data Analytics or a related field.

Strong statistical / analytical skills are preferred.

Well versed in one or more of these listed areas : Big Data - Predictive Analytics, Optimization, Regression, Logit Modeling, Discrete choice, Simulation, Propensity Modeling;

Machine Learning Data / Text Mining, Programming, Algorithm Development, Automation Data Visualization, Natural Language Processing.

• Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment.
• Action oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve our customers and business.
• Critical thinkers with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across our entire business.
• Collaborative team players with superior communication and influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups.

Please ensure your Workday candidate application includes your resume and unofficial academic transcripts. Applications close Wednesday, October 30th, 2024.

If you’re curious, ready to take on new challenges and open to doing things differently to help us evolve rapidly then this is the place to be. #newgradprogram

Hybrid

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model out of Toronto, ON or Calgary, AB whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes.

Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.