Thomson Reuters Looking for VP, Enterprise Analytics at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

The ideal candidate for the VP, Enterprise Analytics will be forward thinking and have a strong background in analytics, data science, and business intelligence. They will steer the direction of our cross-domain analytics function and drive the strategic use of data across the entire organization. This role will facilitate the efficient delivery and uplift of analytics capabilities by providing centralized strategic oversight and decentralized agility in analytics across different business units. The successful candidate will be adept at balancing the needs of a diverse organization while ensuring that data insights are effectively leveraged to drive decision-making and innovation.

About The Role

In this opportunity as VP, Enterprise Analytics, you will:

• Build and manage a high-caliber analytics team capable of tackling complex data challenges to deliver meaningful insights.
• Promote the use of analytics in all decision-making processes and provide strategic direction to cross functional analytics teams as they perform bespoke analytics that meet their unique businesses needs while aligning with the overall data & analytics strategy.
• Facilitate effective collaboration and knowledge sharing amongst the analytics community that spans all areas of TR to identify opportunities for leveraging data to drive synergies, innovation and foster a data-driven culture.
• Support a governance structure that ensures data consistency and quality across all data domains while allowing for tailored analytics solutions within each business unit.
• Collaborate with the VP Data Architecture & Governance to set enterprise-wide analytics standards, policies, and best practices.
• Coach and develop analytics leaders and talent across TR.
• Drive the adoption of advanced analytics and data science practices across the organization, including predictive modeling and machine learning to provide competitive edge.
• Assess cutting-edge analytics tools and platforms that can integrate and enhance analytical capabilities across the organization.
• Engage with executive leadership to report on analytics progress, align on priorities, and demonstrate the value added by the analytics function.
• Present analytical findings and recommendations to executive leadership and key stakeholders in a clear and compelling manner.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and analytics best practices to maintain a competitive advantage.
• Ensure D&A is a diverse and inclusive organization.
• Meet Financial Plan targets; drive productivity improvements (e.g. cost/unit reductions) and ensure resources are allocated effectively to support key initiatives.

This role will partner across the TR Data & Analytics organization to:

• Communicate, and ensure adoption of Data & Model Policies, Standards and Guidelines
• Implement data steward and analytics training & certifications (with Data Governance, Analytics Platform and TR Labs)

About You

You’re a fit for the role of VP, Enterprise Analytics if your background includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in analytics model development and business intelligence, with a minimum of 5 years in a senior data & analytics leadership position.
• Prior experience working in a large, geographically dispersed organization.
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of building and mentoring high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with a knack for presenting data and insights in a way that is accessible and compelling to various audiences including presenting strategy and operational updates to senior executives
• A strategic thinker with a proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive large-scale change across a global organization.
• Expertise in analytics tools, platforms, and methodologies, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business insights.
• Experience in developing and implementing enterprise analytics strategies leveraging big data ecosystems, data visualization tools, and advanced analytical techniques.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and understanding of modern web/SaaS technologies and systems

What’s in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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