Senior Data Analyst, Merchandise Procurement

What you’ll do:

• You will work extensively with CTC enterprise data, international commodity indices, and cross-functional stakeholders to provide reporting, analytical, and data management support for merchandise procurement. This includes cost indices and projections, vendor funds analysis, vendor spend analytics, and the integration of multiple internal and external data sources to support strategic decision-making.
• You will champion data quality, data integrity, and governance standards across procurement datasets, ensuring information is accurate, reliable, consistent, and actionable. Through effective data stewardship, management practices and PI planning participation, you will help build trusted data assets that support reporting, forecasting, vendor performance analysis, and decision support models.
• These reports, data products, and analytical models will enable CTC merchandise teams to negotiate more effectively with vendors through deeper insights into procurement performance and market conditions. Leveraging modern analytics platforms, AI technologies, and fact-based reporting, you will enable more effective vendor negotiations, optimize sourcing decisions, and enhance predictive decision-making capabilities.
• You will help lead the Procurement team into the future by adopting and leveraging emerging AI, architect & lead all EDW to iHub transition efforts and applying advanced analytics technologies. You will also contribute to the development of robust data architecture, data integration frameworks, and self-service analytics capabilities that improve business agility and operational efficiency. You will also support Enterprise Sourcing Management (ESM) with data migration and data ETL efforts.

What you bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Business Analytics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, marketing analytics, performance measurement, or a related field.
• Expert SQL skills with experience querying, transforming, and validating large datasets.
• Extensive experience building & maintaining reports, data modeling and dashboard visualization.
• Expert experience of dimensional modeling concepts, fact and dimension tables and star schema design
• Expert experience developing automated data pipelines using SQL, Knime or similar technologies.
• Experience with Azure Synapse Analytics or similar modern analytics platforms is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

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 – $88,000.
Our typical hiring range is between $53,000 and $70,000. 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.

This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

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.