Manager, Network Analytics

Canadian Tire Corporation•Toronto, ON

11d•CA$90,000 - CA$130,000

About The Position

This role is responsible for leading, coaching, and developing a team of technical analytics professionals, including data analysts, BI developers, data scientists, and/or data engineers. The Manager, Network Analytics will foster a high-performance, collaborative team culture, remove blockers, set direction, and keep the team focused on delivering value. This position acts as the primary translator between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring a shared understanding of goals, constraints, and outcomes. The role involves partnering closely with senior business leaders to understand strategic objectives and operational challenges, and clearly communicating progress, risks, trade-offs, and decisions. The manager will translate business questions into structured data, analytics, or AI approaches, guiding the team in framing problems, defining success metrics, and designing actionable and scalable analytical solutions. They will ensure insights are tied back to business impact and decision-making, and own the end-to-end delivery of analytics and AI initiatives. This includes managing project timelines, dependencies, and resourcing, as well as proactively identifying risks and course-correcting. The role also involves leading the technical team by setting standards for analytical rigor, data quality, and solution design, reviewing and guiding technical approaches, and ensuring 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.
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

Nice To Haves

Preferred candidate would have been in a hands on analytics or data science role prior
SAFe certification is an asset

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ensure solutions are maintainable, well documented, and aligned with enterprise data and AI standards.

Benefits

Career growth opportunities
product discounts
competitive pay
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.
store discounts
supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy
Canadian Tire Profit Sharing
retirement and savings programs for eligible employees
enhanced flex benefits program
mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families
total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees