Director, Analytics & Insights — Enterprise Leader

Securian Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Vacation time

Volunteer day

Wellbeing days

Education assistance

RRSP matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Securian Canada is seeking a Director, Analytics & Insights to shape how data drives decisions across the organization. You will lead a multidisciplinary team spanning analytics, BI, and analytics engineering, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on leadership to translate insights into action.

You will guide enterprise analytics, develop scalable data products and dashboards, and partner with technology, governance, and business leaders to deliver trusted insights, practical AI-enabled

Qualifications

• University degree in Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in analytics, business intelligence, analytics engineering, data science, decision support, or related fields, including leadership responsibilities.
• Demonstrated success building, transforming, or significantly advancing enterprise analytics capabilities within a complex organization.
• Strong experience translating ambiguous business challenges into actionable analytical solutions, meaningful insights, and measurable outcomes.
• Deep expertise in SQL, Python, analytical data modeling, business intelligence platforms, and modern cloud data environments.
• Experience developing scalable analytical datasets, curated data products, KPI frameworks, semantic models, and enterprise reporting solutions.
• Strong understanding of modern data ecosystems, from source systems and data engineering through analytics delivery and business consumption.
• Experience applying advanced analytics, machine learning, predictive modeling, or AI-enabled solutions to business challenges.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders while effectively leading highly technical teams.
• Strong leadership capabilities with experience building, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams.
• Experience within insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry is considered an asset.
• Experience with cloud data warehouses, lakehouse architectures, and modern self-service BI platforms.
• Knowledge of responsible AI practices, model governance, data quality, lineage, explainability, and operational controls.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and inspire action through data.
• A strategic and product-oriented mindset focused on delivering sustainable, scalable solutions that create long-term business value.

Responsibilities

• Define analytics and insights roadmap aligned with enterprise, market, customer, and partner priorities.
• Transform strategic business questions into actionable analytical opportunities, KPI frameworks, data requirements, and decision-support solutions.
• Deliver meaningful insights into business performance, customer behaviour, claims experience, product results, portfolio trends, operational effectiveness, and emerging risks.
• Translate complex findings into clear recommendations and executive-ready narratives that drive informed decision-making.
• Establish scalable practices that improve prioritization, delivery, adoption, value realization, and continuous improvement.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

BI platforms

Cloud data environments

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Analytics degree

Data Science degree

Statistics

Mathematics

Computer Science

Job description

Securian Canada is seeking a Director, Analytics & Insights to shape how data drives decisions across the organization. You will lead a multidisciplinary team spanning analytics, BI, and analytics engineering, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on leadership to translate insights into action.

You will guide enterprise analytics, develop scalable data products and dashboards, and partner with technology, governance, and business leaders to deliver trusted insights, practical AI-enabled