Director, Analytics and Insights

Location: Toronto (Downtown)

The Director, Analytics & Insights has ownership of the strategic guidance, tool development, implementation, continuous improvement, and data governance across all areas.

 

Responsibilities:

 

  • Build and grow the data analytics team with a focus on providing business insights and data-driven decision-making
  • Ability to lead with a passion for data and analytics while simultaneously building credibility for the newly formed Analytics and Insights team
  • Leading a team and engaging directly with the work needed to accomplish the priority use cases
  • Drive change management to drive user adoption of analytical tools and methods and embrace data in strategic business decisions
  • Enable business ownership with advanced analytics output and key insights through dashboards and reports
  • Assist direct reports with ongoing prioritization and resource allocation to ensure that crucial business initiatives are delivered
  • Leverage industry best practices and techniques to deliver proactive and compelling business value
  • Implement new tools and strategies to translate data into valuable business insights
  • Work with the different stakeholders to develop data and analytics roadmap

 

Qualifications:

  • A minimum of 10 years’ experience in a leadership role influencing decisions with analytics
  • At least 5 years of leading and managing a team of business analysts
  • Demonstrated track record of translating advanced analytics/data and articulating key insights to create value and improve business performance
  • Experience in accelerating analytics use cases and transforming data into business value
  • Ability to read, write and interpret business and technical documents
  • Deep knowledge of data warehousing, mining, and data security practices
  • Familiarity with business intelligence tools (Power BI, IBM Digital Analytics, Google Analytics and creation of automated report models)