What you’ll do :
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
Lead, coach, and develop a team of technical analytics professionals (data analysts, BI developers, data scientists and/or data engineers), creating clarity around priorities and expectations
Foster a high performance, collaborative team culture that balances speed, quality, and innovation‑performance, collaborative team culture that balances speed, quality, and innovation
Remove blockers, set direction, and keep the team focused on delivering value
Stakeholder Partnership & Communication
Act as the primary translator between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring shared understanding of goals, constraints, and outcomes
Partner closely with senior business leaders to understand strategic objectives and operational challenges
Clearly communicate progress, risks, trade-offs, and decisions in a concise and compelling way‑offs, and decisions in a concise and compelling way
Business Problem Translation
Translate business questions into structured data, analytics, or AI approaches, selecting the right methodology for the problem at hand
Guide the team in framing problems, defining success metrics, and designing analytical solutions that are actionable and scalable
Ensure insights and outputs are clearly tied back to business impact and decision-making‑making
Project & Delivery Management
Own end-to-end delivery of analytics and AI initiatives, from intake through execution and release‑to‑end delivery of analytics and AI initiatives, from intake through execution and release
Manage project timelines, dependencies, and resourcing across multiple concurrent initiatives
Proactively identify risks and course correct to keep work on track and aligned to business priorities‑correct to keep work on track and aligned to business priorities
Technical Direction & Quality
Lead a technical team by setting standards for analytical rigor, data quality, and solution design
Review and guide technical approaches without needing to be the hands-on builder‑on builder
Ensure solutions are maintainable, well documented, and aligned with enterprise data and AI standards‑documented, and aligned with enterprise data and AI standards
What you bring :
2+ years proven experience leading and managing an analytics or data science team
2+ years Experience supporting retail, store operations, or field based organizations. Preferred candidate would have been in a hands on analytics or data science role prior‑based organizations
Strong project and delivery management experience, with a track record of meeting timelines
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and align both technical and non‑technical audiences
Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business questions into clear data or AI approaches
Experience working with analytics and data platforms. Exposure to AI driven use cases and advanced analytics in a business environment-driven use cases and advanced analytics‑driven use cases and advanced analytics
Ability to research and learn new technologies and onboard team
Comfort operating in a fast paced, matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders
SAFe certification is an asset
We’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:
Career growth opportunities and product discounts
Broadband Salary Range: $79,000.00 - 131,000.00 CAD Annual
Our typical hiring range is between $90,000.00 - 130,000.00 CAD per annum. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, job-related knowledge, skills and competencies, market location, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements
This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.
We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.
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.
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.
