Analytics Team Lead Jobs

About Us

Based in Canada, Metro Supply Chain shapes and delivers innovative supply chain solutions that helps some of the world’s fastest growing and most reputable brands advance their businesses. Over the past 40+ years, we’ve grown into a significant operation of more than 80 sites across North America and Europe and 6,000 team members. What hasn’t changed is our unique “Our Way” culture built on respect, inclusivity, and a commitment to always improving. We strive to positively impact our people, communities, and environment in everything we do, which means investing in our people, technology, and infrastructure, and using our skills and passion to give back to worthy causes.

We partner with global fortune 500 companies in retail, consumer packaged goods, ecommerce, apparel, automotive sectors through three services distribution, transportation, time critical logistics, and contract packaging. Supply Chain companies are data rich environments.

The Supply Chain Analytics team at Metro has one mandate - drive change through data.

Analytics in Supply Chain:

As per Deloitte, Supply chains are a rich place to look for competitive advantage, partly because of their complexity, and partly because of the significant role they play in a company’s cost structure. With the power of new analytics, companies can now fine-tune their supply chains in ways that simply weren’t possible in the past. As a supply chain company analytics and insights are everything!

Metro Supply Chain is embracing and driving change which is critical to our success. As such we are relentlessly focused on innovating at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and attracting the best talent to drive the company forward.

The successful candidate will support the design and delivery of analytics and insights to operations and senior leadership. They will bring decision, descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to life to support operational performance reviews and continuous improvement efforts.

We focus on efficiency, people, financial, and effectiveness analytics to drive change and improve prediction and planning.

A small sample of what you will be involved in:

• Using customer data to visualize, analyze, and simplify the performance picture it is not just boxes going from point A to point B.
• Produce insightful business analytics related to our transportation offerings of time critical, managed freight, same day-next day parcel delivery, and white glove services.
• Work proactively with key business partners to identify opportunities and to drive transformational business growth initiatives, which deliver customer and shareholder value and meet targets as agreed with company senior leadership.

Who you are:

• A natural leader, leading by example and not afraid of questioning the norm and changing behaviours.
• Great attitude and demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on capacity
• Humble intelligence and confidence
• Effective communication style with a demonstrated ability to work with teams.
• Problem solvers with the ability to analyze and prioritize to meet business objectives
• Ability to have fun, work hard and make a difference
• Creative, agile, and innovative, able to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help shape our evolving strategy through building, launching, and managing initiatives/strategies producing results for our organization and customer.
• A strong business acumen and thrives on bringing data and numbers to life with excellent analytical and visualization skills
• Project management mastery
• Strategic thinker with strong execution skills
• A high performing and motivated individual who is:

Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of data visualization tools – must have Microsoft PowerBI
• Strong understanding of cloud-based platforms (Azure, Snowflake, others) and data science tools (R, Python, Apache Spark, others)
• University/College degree in Data Science/Analytics, Engineering, or related field
• Strong understanding in SQL programming language, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• Experience in supply chain or transportation industry is a plus
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook). Experience working with queries, VBA, and macros. Advanced Excel / Modelling skills with the ability to manipulate and analyze large volumes of data. They will be able to identify key business drivers and provide incisive commentary.
• Experienced in database design, data architecture, data mining, and analytics
• 2+ years of relevant and demonstrable experience in the business intelligence and analytics field.
• Proficient in ETL (extract, transform, load)

Why Join Us

• The opportunity to build a career with a growing company
• Community volunteering
• Company sponsored social events
• Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, and short-term disability
• Company sponsored life insurance
• RRSP plan with company match
• Wellness programs include an Employee Assistance Program to support your family’s well-being