2026 New Grad Rotational Program | Data Science Associate

Canadian Tire Corporation is a trusted company in Canada, seeking a Data Science Associate for their New Graduate Program starting in 2026. This role involves developing analytical expertise and working cross-functionally within the data analytics team through two progressive 12-month rotations in Decision Support teams, focusing on retail analytics, data science, and business intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise and create a broad range of data driven solutions by applying a variety of techniques to build out complex models
• 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
• Provide data visualization expertise and interpretation of data into meaningful insights or visuals to help facilitate business understanding of outcomes and recommendations
• Responsible for the design/development of complex reports, dashboards, and scorecards to support business needs; ensure alignment of metrics across the organization
• Participating in projects by analyzing approaches, processes, and tools to support the business data strategy

Skills

• 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: Power BI Dashboard Development, Big Data - Predictive Analytics, Optimization, Machine Learning – Data/Text Mining, Programming, Algorithm Development, Automation, Data Visualization, Natural Language Processing
• Excellent verbal & written communication with ability to work collaboratively effectively in a team environment
• Possess technical knowledge and on hand experience with SQL, Python, Spark, Azure Cloud Tools, Databricks, Power BI and AI-Powered Tools (CoPilot, ChatGPT, Agents)
• 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
• If you're curious, ready to take on new challenges and open to doing things differently to help us evolve rapidly – we are looking for you

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
• Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs
• Other perks to support your well-being
• Career growth opportunities and product discounts
• Store discounts
• Supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy
• Canadian Tire Profit Sharing
• Retirement and savings programs for eligible employees
• Mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees.

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