Senior Analyst, Insights

Job Title: Senior Analyst, Insights

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Estimated Duration: Fulltime

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer 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. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Job Summary:
The Sr. Analyst, Insights reports to Manager, Price Value Insights. This position is responsible for leading the design, development and implementation of models, reports, dashboards, and analytics that help improve our already strong reporting & analytics capabilities.
 What you’ll do:

• Collaborate across Marketing, Merchandising, Supply Chain, forecasting, data engineering, and other teams to deeply understand business objectives
• Translate business questions into technical data needs, ensuring alignment with request goals
• Research, identify and then collect / extract the internal data sets required for the use case. Creativity, thinking outside of the box, and resourcefulness is required to find new and relevant data sources to meet business requirements
• Exhibit strong attention to detail while working with large datasets to ensure accuracy, completeness, and high-quality standards
• Translate technical findings into clear recommendations for non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business use cases
• Partner closely with data engineers and data scientists to ensure data pipelines and models align with organizational goal
• Diagnose and enhance data quality across diverse sources
• Recommend ways to integrate disparate data sources into a usable data model to meet business requirements
• Present business insights in a meaningful and intuitive manner, in accordance with the target audience, using KNIME, DB Visualizer, Excel, and other BI tools
• Implement segmentation and categorization techniques to build dynamic solutions tailored to use case
• Demonstrate curiosity by exploring datasets, conducting exploratory data analysis to uncover hidden trends, outliers, anomalies, and identify insights that might not be obvious
• Build advanced dashboards and visualizations that turn data into compelling narratives
• Provide detailed analysis of product behavior, market trends, and competitive landscape to support product, sales and marketing strategies
• Perform ad hoc analysis on the Promotions and Pricing portfolios and translate results into actionable recommendations
• Coach and mentor a team of skilled Analysts and assist in their individual development
• Demonstrate analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills
• Take a collaborate approach to build strong relationships and have positive team experiences
• Adjust and prioritize accordingly to adapt to business demands and requirements
• Demonstrate core values with an ability to lead a high performing team of Analysts
• Support other high-profile initiatives, Such regional pricing expansion, New Incentive Types etc.

What you bring:

• Successful completion of University Education Program (Mathematics, Economics, Finance)
• Experience in acting as a lead for a highly skilled analytical team
• 5 + years experience in Analytics & Reporting
• Experience in application of analytical and presentation tools
• Knowledge of statistics and predictive models
• Exceptional communication skills with the confidence and passion to share knowledge
• Creative thinker who is curious and has an independent drive for self learning and understanding
• Goal driven individual to seek out continuous improvement opportunities
• Solid foundation of relevant technical skills

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging 
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations  

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.