Viralnation
Director, Business Intelligence
Canada. Posted 8 months ago
The role
The Director, Business Intelligence will lead enterprise-wide analytics strategy and build a high-performing team of analysts. This person will deliver actionable insights across sales forecasting, retail performance, campaign measurement, and influencer, paid, and social strategy optimization.
What you will do
- Act as a senior analytics partner to client account, strategy, and service teams.
- Serve as the senior analytics advisor to executive leadership.
- Elevate analytics from reporting to strategic advantage through data narratives.
- Own end-to-end measurement strategy across paid media, influencer, social, and retail media.
- Forecast and quantify incremental revenue and retail lift using predictive models.
- Design and operationalize ROI frameworks including brand lift, sales lift, and marketing mix modeling.
- Build scalable measurement systems to evaluate influencer effectiveness and content performance.
- Identify emerging consumer and digital engagement trends.
- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing analytics team.
- Design and oversee scalable data collection and reporting infrastructure.
Required qualifications
- Extensive experience in marketing, media, or agency environments.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (Social Sciences, Statistics, Data Science, Business Analytics, or related discipline), or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of progressive experience in research, analytics, and measurement.
- Advanced expertise in primary and secondary research methodologies including brand tracking, brand and communications strategy, brand lift studies, regression analysis, Market Mix Modeling, social lis
- Deep technical proficiency in Python and SQL for analysis and data modeling.
- Deep technical proficiency in Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, and Snowflake.
- Deep technical proficiency in BI tools such as Sigma or comparable platforms.
- Ability to architect and optimize analytics workflows, data pipelines, and reporting systems.
- Strong executive-level communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior client stakeholders.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and total rewards package
Before you apply
- Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.
About the company
Viral Nation specializes in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. They offer a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment.