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 analyticsAt least 5 years of leading and managing a team of business analystsDemonstrated track record of translating advanced analytics / data and articulating key insights to create value and improve business performanceExperience in accelerating analytics use cases and transforming data into business valueAbility to read, write and interpret business and technical documentsDeep knowledge of data warehousing, mining, and data security practicesFamiliarity with business intelligence tools (Power BI, IBM Digital Analytics, Google Analytics and creation of automated report models)