Digital Agrifood and Circular Economy Consultant

**Job no**: 520289

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Location**: Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney

**Division**: Management Consulting

**KPMG Australia** is part of a global network providing extensive services across a wide range of industries and sectors. Our people collaborate, share their expertise and create innovation as we partner with clients to solve complex challenges, empower change, drive disruption and growth. We look for talented people with the potential to make an extraordinary difference for our clients, our firm and our communities. KPMG is at the forefront of digital transformation in the Australian agriculture and food sectors working as the trusted adviser to governments, research organisations and corporates. Our work is focussed around Circular Economy, Sustainability and connecting the physical, biological and digital worlds together with advanced technologies such as IoT, AI, and ML enabling the agrifood supply chain to make better, faster decisions, automate processes, reduce waste, reduce cost and enable the prediction of future events.

**KPMG Data & Cloud** is a team with a passion for helping our clients solve their business challenges. We achieve this through technology-based solutions that unlock insights and value from data and leverage innovative cloud-based solutions. Leveraging the “One KPMG” approach, our team works collaboratively with the wider KPMG service lines to provide our clients with industry-specific, tailored proposals that result in highly differentiated business transformation outcomes.

We re-imagine and re-invent organizations to become world class enterprises using advanced technologies, data and human insights. We help organizations to embrace Data Strategy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Cognitive, the Internet of Things (IoT), Data, Analytics & Modelling and more.

We love the work we get to do in helping clients involved in the production of food and fibre to improve their businesses and better manage risk and sustainability through digital and data. Insights from trusted real-time data help the sector to more nimbly respond to what the market wants, be more efficient in production and show our customers how safe and sustainable our food is.

Our team is growing and we have open positions across a number of levels including:

- **Associate Directors**:

- **Managers**:

- **Senior Consultants**

Joining KPMG’s **Digital Agrifood and Circular Economy** consulting team means you will be joining a firm that is recognised as a leader in digital agriculture. Recognised as a “Leader” by industry analysts, including:

- Recent Forrester Wave’s as having “deep expertise in and focus on agrifood tech, in particular strategy consulting for public sector institutions, is unique” and “its vision is also solid and sets the pace for transforming agritech”
- IDC “design policy for IoT-enabled digital transformation of the agriculture sector”

**Examples of engagements you will have the opportunity to work on include**:

- Developing the business case for the Australian AgriFood Data Exchange
- Developing Circular Economy programs and implementing platforms to enable better utilisation and management of resources
- Designing the digital agrifood strategy and roadmap for federal and state government agencies
- Keeping the Australian agrifood industry at the forefront of innovation
- Implementing data and analytics platforms for major ag corporations
- Advising clients on Ag 4.0 connectivity solutions including LPWANs such as LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, Cat M1 and Satellite IoT
- Designing the technical architecture of the IoT and agtech enabled on-farm trials
- Collaborating with solution providers for digital compliance and biosecurity systems
- Designing predictive analysis and AI platforms for producers to leverage production data to achieve market and regulator compliance
- Connecting supply chains from paddock to plate to promote transparency and trust across industry for consumers
- Engaging with the agtech vendor ecosystem to deliver solutions for our clients

**What can we offer you?**
- A culture focused on harmony, trust and collaboration
- Opportunities to work on larger, diverse and more complex projects. Putting your skills and experience to the test
- Encouragement and support of ongoing learning and career development across the business. Because how you grow matters
- Opportunities to collaborate and link across borders and globally with sector and technical experts in all parts of our business
- Be involved in KPMG's support of numerous organisations in the areas of education, social inclusion and health including our Reconciliation Action Plan and Global Green Initiative.
- Participation in the performance-based variable pay (bonus) scheme.
- Enjoy employee benefits including salary packaging options, employee discounts, reward schemes, and more

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