Senior Business Analyst, CTR Strategic Initiatives

2 weeks ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Canadian Tire Corporation Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst to join our CTR Strategic Initiatives team at Canadian Tire Corporation. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in providing analytical support for our General Merchandising strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities
  • Enable high-impact strategic projects by providing end-to-end support to clients, including defining analysis scope, gathering relevant data, executing analyses, and presenting concise and relevant insights.
  • Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, and abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding.
  • Act as an impartial consultant to business users by leading discussions with business clients and other team members to confidently and accurately present relevant information and to determine/clarify business rules or other considerations that will impact future-state analytical solutions.
  • Develop options and present recommendations to various stakeholders within the organization to drive and support change in a continuously evolving retail environment.
  • Take complex data points and simplify with effective and representative visualizations (charts, tables, graphs, slides) to provide analytical insights and recommendations, to influence business clients.
  • Lead regular deep dives of sales performance by customer, product, brands, store network, and other relevant factors to establish key insights.
  • Design, plan, and build data pipelines (data wrangling / preparation / ETL), data modeling and analytical/statistical workflows, data visualizations, and reporting/dashboarding tools to support and conduct comprehensive analyses.
  • Identify inefficiencies in current processes and strive for continuous improvement through changes to modelling approaches and/or automation.
Requirements
  • Post-secondary degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or related field.
  • 4+ years of experience in an analytical role.
  • Knowledge and experience in data preparation, data analysis, and statistical tool sets including but not limited to SQL, Power BI, Python, Knime and Excel.
  • Experience with Snowflake, Azure Synapse Analytics an asset.
  • Intermediate knowledge of Python and its standard libraries such as Pandas and Numpy; motivated to advance your Python skillset.
  • Intermediate knowledge of SQL and best practices.
  • Experience interacting with multiple on-Premises and cloud-based Data Lakes and Warehouses and using analytical platforms / tools to perform data wrangling and Big Data analytics an asset.
  • Experience working with large and complex datasets efficiently and a passion for digging into quantitative and qualitative data.
  • Excellent attention to detail, a structured approach to analysis and the ability to develop logical arguments.
  • See the bigger picture of the problem you are trying to solve and will proactively seek new data points from varied sources (external and internal) to complement your analysis.
  • Recognized for your curiosity and growth mindset.
  • Superb verbal & written communication skills with application in influencing technical and non-technical clients with data.
  • Understanding and interest in advanced analytics concepts including machine learning is an asset.
About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation is one of Canada's most admired and respected companies. We have over 90 owned brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exceptional e-commerce capabilities, and innovative merchandising strategies. We have big dreams and work together to innovate specifically for our customers at all levels of our activities, investing in new technologies and products and doubling down on talent to drive the business forward. We offer competitive salaries to Canadian Tire Corporation employees, as well as in-store discounts, learning opportunities through the Canadian Tire Triangle Learning Academy, profit-sharing programs, and retirement and savings plans for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flexible benefits program, we offer $5,000 per year in mental health and overall well-being benefits to eligible employees and their families, as well as mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us to contribute to improving life in Canada by embodying and putting into practice our fundamental values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at heart, results drive us, inclusion is a necessity, we are stronger together, and we take personal responsibility. It's an exciting time to join Canadian Tire Corporation and its family of companies, where career opportunities are diverse Join us, there's a place for you here

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where a sense of belonging thrives and diversity, inclusion, and equity are integral to everything we do. We believe in creating an organizational culture where people are treated with dignity at all times, respecting religion, nationality, sex, race, age, perceived ability, language spoken, sexual orientation, and identity. We are united in our goal of being here to contribute to improving life in Canada.

We value inclusion. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups, such as racialized people, Indigenous peoples, 2SLGBTQIA+ community members, women, people with disabilities, and others. If you require accommodations to apply to this role or during the interview, please let us know when you contact us, and we will work with you to meet your needs.



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