Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking a Manager, Network Analytics to join their team in Toronto, Ontario. This leadership role sits at the intersection of data strategy, analytics delivery, and team management.
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
- 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
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
Project & Delivery Management
- Own end-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
Technical Direction & Quality
- Lead a technical team by setting standards for analytical rigour, data quality, and solution design
- Review and guide technical approaches without needing to be the hands-on builder
- Ensure solutions are maintainable, well-documented, and aligned with enterprise data and AI standards
Requirements
- 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
- 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
- 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
Compensation & Benefits
Broadband Salary Range: $79,000 – $131,000 CAD Annual. Typical hiring range: $90,000 – $130,000 CAD per annum. Benefits include career growth opportunities, product discounts, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, retirement and savings programs, Triangle Learning Academy, and $5,000 per year in mental health benefits for eligible employees and their families.
2+ years leading an analytics or data science team; 2+ years supporting retail or store operations; strong project and delivery management experience; excellent communication skills; experience with analytics and data platforms; exposure to AI-driven use cases