Director/Head of Analytics

4 weeks ago


Eastern Ontario, Canada N-iX Full time

About the client:

Our customer is the Canadian online car market with over 30 million monthly users, with a market presence in 18 countries. The Head of Analytics will lead the transformation of our analytics organization, ensuring alignment with business needs while optimizing efficiency. This role requires a strong change leader who can unify fragmented analytics teams, establish standardized ways of working, and drive adoption of a new collaboration model across the business. The successful candidate will need to restructure teams, improve processes, and enhance data-driven decision-making while managing headcount efficiency.


Location: Canada, Toronto (or ability to relocate, or regularly visit the office)


Key Responsibilities:
  1. Develop and execute a transformation roadmap to unify and restructure analytics teams, ensuring they deliver maximum business value with optimized resources.
  2. Implement standardized methodologies and ways of working across analytics functions to enhance consistency, efficiency, and impact.
  3. Lead change management efforts by proactively engaging with key stakeholders to drive adoption of new collaboration models between analytics, business, and other functions.
  4. Develop a clear communication strategy to bring the organization along on the analytics transformation journey, ensuring buy-in from executives, functional leaders, and team.
  5. Assess the current analytics team structure and design an optimized team setup that maintains business support while reducing redundancies.
  6. Identify automation opportunities and process improvements to enable teams to deliver insights faster and more efficiently.
  7. Implement a scalable and sustainable analytics operating model that maximizes business impact with an optimized team size.
  8. Drive the adoption of common tools, frameworks, and governance policies to ensure consistency in data use and analytics execution across the organization.
  9. Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and regulatory requirements while fostering a data-driven culture.
  10. Partner with business leaders across functions (e.g., marketing, sales, product, finance) to align analytics priorities with business needs.
  11. Act as a bridge between analytics teams and functional stakeholders, ensuring that analytics capabilities directly support and drive business strategies.
  12. Provide thought leadership and advocacy for data-driven decision-making, educating stakeholders on how to best leverage analytics.
Qualifications and Experience:
  1. 10+ years of experience in data analytics, with at least 5 years in a leadership role driving change in large or complex organizations.
  2. Proven experience leading analytics transformations, including restructuring teams, optimizing headcount, and improving ways of working.
  3. Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across business functions.
  4. Expertise in analytics tools and technologies (e.g., SQL, Python, R, Tableau, Power BI) and data-driven decision-making frameworks.
  5. Change Management Expertise – Proven ability to lead organizational transformation and drive adoption of new processes and structures.
  6. Strategic Thinking – Ability to develop and execute a long-term vision for analytics while delivering immediate business impact.
  7. Leadership and Stakeholder Management – Strong ability to communicate, influence, and align stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
  8. Operational and Process Optimization – Experience improving analytics efficiency, standardizing methodologies, and optimizing team structures.
  9. Business Acumen – Deep understanding of business functions and how analytics can drive commercial success.
We offer:
  1. Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
  2. A competitive salary and good compensation package
  3. Personalized career growth
  4. Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
  5. Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
  6. Education reimbursement
  7. Memorable anniversary presents
  8. Corporate events and team buildings
  9. Other location-specific benefits
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