Manager, Enterprise Data & Analytics - ( 2500004W )

Description

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works to support operational excellence. The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents. Our Functional Services Teams (FSTs) include Corporate Development, Finance, Human Resources, HSSE, IT, Legal, Marketing/Communications, Practice Services and Real Estate and Procurement. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our FSTs are vital to making our Company stronger.

Your Opportunity

Do you love using data to tell stories, investigate trends, and support executives and other leaders with insights? Are you interested in driving business results for a global architecture and engineering design firm that is ranked as one of the most sustainable companies in the world? Are you ready to lead a team of like-minded data analysts within our Enterprise Data & Analytics group to fully leverage our enterprise’s data? Then we are looking for you.

The Manager of Enterprise Analytics is part investigator, part storyteller, and part guide, able to refine and oversee a cohesive operating model that produces insights and analysis to meet our business’s needs. This person understands the full life-cycle – from intake to design and delivery - of how insights and analysis can come to life for our business to use.

While this role is part of Enterprise Data & Analytics within our Information Technology Services team, you will be partnering across the organization to drive them forward on their data journey. You will be exposed to, and responsible for enabling, the entire value chain of a global organization that accomplishes operational excellence.

Our people are at the core of everything we do. Driven by a culture of inclusion and diversity, we offer dozens of employee resource groups, growth opportunities, competitive benefits, and flexible work arrangements. We understand that the tools for success look different for everyone, and we are committed to providing each employee with the support and flexibility they need to thrive.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid-remote work.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Refine and oversee an operating model for our Analytics team, from intake to execution.

• Coach and mentor a team of analysts as they support our internal teams in measuring and evaluating our businesses effectiveness.

• Support the production of externally facing reporting by designing, overseeing and executing processes that comply with our regulatory and audit requirements.

• Manage the production of routine management reporting using a variety of technologies (Power BI, Excel, Oracle Data Visualizer).

• Research new ways for business performance to be measured and support the business in their evaluation and adoption of those new measurement metrics.

• Experiment with and explore our rich data to identify trends and emerging events to support leadership.

• Support other technical teams in their understanding of how to best support an analytics function as they develop and implement new technologies.

• Collaborating with data and insight consumers to build services and products that effectively use data and insights to further our business’s objectives.

• Collaborate with your and other teams to respond to ad hoc data and information requests from business leaders.

• Collaborate with and challenge leaders throughout the organization to make better use of the data.

• Present findings and observations to business leaders.

• Ensure data is being handled in accordance with all applicable standards and regulations.

• Work with business representatives to interpret data from source systems and understand data usage considerations and constraints.

• Establish relationships with data product owners, data owners and data consumers to support the further development and evolution of data products.

• Lead new data sharing and collaboration initiatives, support continuous improvement, provide direction to rapidly evolving opportunities, and negotiate innovative solutions to complex and diverse challenges.

• Support formal user acceptance testing activities such as test case creation, execution, and issue resolution.

• Develop your craft as an analytics professional as you work with our team and our business to understand their challenges and work with them to build effective, sustainable, and valued solutions.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials:

• Able to interpret and transform data and information from disparate sources into a cohesive story

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Technical and team leadership skills.

• Cross-team collaboration and coordination.

• Able to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Strong customer service focus with demonstrated interpersonal skills.

• Strong organizational, time management, problem solving, and analytical skills.

• Detail-oriented with a high-degree of critical thinking.

• Able to translate business strategy and intent to measurements of success.

• Capable of taking emergent business scenarios and perform data-driven diagnostic analysis.

• Comfortable presenting to an executive audience.

• Able to develop sustainable and extensible data visualization solutions.

• Able to establish and execute auditable quality review processes.

• Understanding of data security and data governance.

Must have:

• 3 years of experience in a management or technical lead role, preferably with teams focused in the data domain.

• 5 years of experience with providing enterprise-wide data analysis, both routine and ad hoc, in large, complex organizations.

• Demonstrated prior experience in business analysis and requirements gathering.

• Experience presenting results of data analysis to senior leaders.

• Strong technical competency in data analysis tools and languages such as Power BI, Tableau, R, Python or similar.

• Experience producing analysis for audiences external to the organization with processes that are subject to external review.

• Familiarity with data management and data governance concepts and methods.

• Understanding of different management measurement frameworks such as OKRs, KPIs, KRAS.

• Understanding and experience working with agile development practices.

• Excellent knowledge of standard concepts, best practices, and procedures within a data analytics environment.

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize and present technical requirements of proposed solution.

• Excellent knowledge of standard concepts, best practices, and procedures within a data analytics environment.

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize and present technical requirements of proposed solution.

Assets:

• Experience with finance, HR, payroll, HSSE, ESG and project related data.

• Experience working within or serving in a management role in a Professional Services organization.

• CPA designation or similar.

• Experience with leveraging data from ERPs, particularly Oracle.

• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Oracle Data Visualizer and the wider Microsoft Power Platform suite is desirable.

Education & Experience

• 8 years related experience

• Related degree or equivalent combination of experience and education

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee. Other duties, obligations, and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : Canada-Alberta-Calgary

Other Locations : Canada-Alberta-Edmonton

Organization : BC-1374 IT Services-CA Corporate

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Manager

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Jan 14, 2025, 5:31:18 PM

Req ID: 2500004W

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