Digital Operations, Senior Associate

About the role

PwC's operations consulting practice advises clients on optimizing operational efficiency and effectiveness. As a Digital Operations Senior Associate in Toronto, you will support client engagements focused on complex operations and planning decisions in highly constrained, mission-critical environments. You will work closely with managers and senior team members to turn planning and readiness questions into analytical outputs, contributing to analytical delivery and modernization of processes, data, reporting and systems.

Key responsibilities

• Structure operational, logistics and planning challenges as analytical problems under uncertainty, and analyse trade-offs in capacity, inventory, risk, service levels and timing
• Build and support quantitative analyses such as supply chain network and flow analysis, inventory planning under uncertainty, capacity and bottleneck analysis, and scenario and probabilistic analysis using simulation
• Support model testing, sensitivity analysis and validation
• Develop and maintain analytics code, models and documentation, working with data from multiple systems and sources
• Document business rules, data requirements, process flows and reporting logic, following auditable analytics practices
• Deliver analytical outputs within project teams, prepare materials for client discussions and flag data, modelling or assumption risks

Required profile

• Degree in operations, industrial/systems engineering, computer science or a closely related quantitative field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a relevant field
• Experience applying quantitative or analytical techniques to operations, supply chain or planning problems in defense, manufacturing or other asset-intensive industries
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to data quality and assumptions
• Ability to simplify complex ideas for non-technical audiences

Required skills

• Quantitative techniques and applied modelling
• Tools such as Python, R and SQL, optimization solvers, simulation libraries and enterprise or cloud data platforms
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms, system integration, data architecture and digital workflows is an asset

The salary range is $84,700 - $134,700, with possible variable incentive pay. The role is open to work visa sponsorship.