About the Opportunity
Join a high-impact modernization initiative within a large, nationally recognized retail organization. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a critical business function that supports large-scale operational transitions across a national network, while helping transform legacy processes that have remained largely unchanged for decades.
Reporting into a team responsible for operational capabilities, training, process improvement, and modernization, you will play a pivotal role in building the data foundation that enables smarter decision-making, improved efficiency, and enhanced stakeholder experiences. Working alongside business leaders, consultants, and operational experts, you will translate complex data into meaningful stories that drive change and influence strategic decisions.
What’s In It for You
A rare opportunity to build something from the ground up and leave a lasting impact on a business-critical function. Significant autonomy to identify opportunities, recommend solutions, and shape modernization efforts. Exposure to enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, including automation, analytics, process improvement, and emerging AI capabilities. You’ll join a collaborative team environment that values curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement. This is an opportunity to work directly with senior stakeholders and influence meaningful operational change.
Your Responsibilities
Build and improve models, data mining techniques, and explore opportunities to integrate AI and machine learning solutions to improve the operational processes behind the changeover team.
Review and support current key tools used by the changeover team and Dealers/stores to, enhance usability.
Develop reporting dashboards & reports to translate complex data into actionable insights across the team and dealer network, with an openness to leveraging AI-powered analytics tools.
Partner with business stakeholders to ingest and utilize new data sources as they become available, to create usable datasets to provide ad hoc business reporting and analysis as requested.
Work closely with stakeholders to understand business problems, developing data-driven and AI-enhanced solutions to overcome these problems and add tangible business value. Query, extract and transform raw data from multiple data sources to build a data pipeline, conduct key insight and in-depth analysis of changeover specific data to recommend or prove solutions.
Develop and improve key reporting tools using KNIME, MS Excel and BI Platforms.
Be responsible for and improve the handling of data and act as Changeover data steward. Partner with IT, business stakeholders and Dealers to influence decision-making with data.
Skills and Qualifications
5+ years of progressive experience in analytics, business intelligence, data science, or a related field within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
Advanced SQL expertise with strong proficiency in Python for data analysis, automation, and data transformation.
Demonstrated experience building data models, ETL processes, reporting frameworks, and analytical solutions.
Strong experience with BI platforms such as Power BI or Tableau, along with advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities.
Experience working with cloud platforms and data warehousing technologies such as Azure, AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Cloudera, or similar solutions.
Exposure to automation tools such as KNIME, Power Automate, Power Apps, or VBA is considered an asset.
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills with the ability to explain the “so what” behind the data and influence business decisions.
We’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:
Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs
Other perks to support your well-being
Career growth opportunities and product discounts
Broadband Salary Range: $53,000.00 – $88,000.00.
Our typical hiring range is between $75,000.00 and $88,000.00. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role.
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We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.
About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
Accommodations
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of progressive experience in analytics, business intelligence, data science, or related field
- Advanced SQL expertise
- Strong proficiency in Python for data analysis, automation, and transformation
- Demonstrated experience building data models, ETL processes, and reporting frameworks
- Experience with BI platforms such as Power BI or Tableau
- Advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities
- Experience with cloud platforms and data warehousing technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Cloudera, or similar)
- Experience acting as a data steward or improving data handling and governance
- Exposure to automation tools such as KNIME, Power Automate, Power Apps, or VBA
- Exceptional communication and data storytelling skills to influence stakeholders
- Experience integrating or exploring AI/Machine Learning solutions
What We Do
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to be there for Canadians from coast-to-coast. We are a group of companies that includes a retail segment, a financial services division and CT REIT. Our retail business is led by Canadian Tire, which was founded in 1922 and provides Canadians with products for life in Canada across its Living, Playing, Fixing, Automotive and Seasonal & Gardening categories. Party City, PartSource and Gas+ are key parts of the Canadian Tire network. Our retail segment also includes Mark's, a leading source for casual and industrial wear, Pro Hockey Life, a hockey speciality store catering to elite athletes, and SportChek, Hockey Experts, Sports Experts, and Atmosphere, which offer the best active wear brands. Our 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets are supported and strengthened by our Financial Services division and the tens of thousands of people employed across the country by our Company, local Dealers, franchisees and petroleum retailers. In addition, CTC owns and operates Helly Hansen, a leading technical outdoor brand based in Oslo, Norway. CTC is an integral part of the communities in which we operate and our legacy of community support, through national and local programs, is initiated and executed by our Corporation, Dealers, franchisees, store operators and employees. Since 2005, our Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities has been helping kids overcome financial and accessibility barriers to sport and recreation in an effort to provide inclusive play for all kids of all abilities. For more information, visit corp.canadiantire.ca.
