At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead analytics initiatives and transform data into actionable insights for strategic decision-making.
- Company: Join Securian Canada, a forward-thinking company dedicated to helping Canadians build secure futures.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with a focus on innovation and team collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping data-driven decisions that empower leaders across the organization.
- Qualifications: Strong leadership skills, business acumen, and technical expertise in analytics.
What we do every day to be our very best
Every day at Securian Canada means a day spent helping Canadians and their families build secure tomorrows. We're agile and innovative, and we aren't afraid to challenge and create, or bring diverse perspectives to our work.
Who we need
As our Director, Analytics & Insights, you'll help shape how data drives decisions across Securian Canada. We're looking for a leader who sees beyond dashboards and reports. Someone who is energized by complex business challenges, naturally curious about what drives performance, and passionate about transforming data into meaningful business outcomes. You'll play a pivotal role in building and evolving an enterprise analytics capability that empowers leaders with trusted insights, scalable analytics products, modern business intelligence, and practical AI-enabled solutions.
Reporting to the AVP, Data Solutions, you'll lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for Analytics & Insights, Business Intelligence, and Analytics Engineering. Working across business and technology teams, you'll help create a shared understanding of customers, products, markets, financial performance, and organizational priorities, enabling smarter decisions at every level of the organization.
This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing strategic thinking with hands-on leadership. You'll influence enterprise priorities, guide complex analytical initiatives, challenge assumptions, and help leaders translate insights into action.
The leader we're looking for combines strong business judgment with technical depth. You start with the decision that needs to be made, not the tool that will be used. You understand that data and analytics are strategic business assets and know how to balance immediate business needs with scalable enterprise solutions. You're pragmatic, collaborative, governance-minded, and skilled at translating complex analytical concepts into compelling business narratives that drive action.
Most importantly, you're passionate about building high-performing teams, developing talent, fostering collaboration, and creating an environment where people can do their best work while making a meaningful impact. At Securian Canada, analytics is about more than understanding what happened. It's about helping people make better decisions that support our mission of helping Canadians and their families build secure tomorrows. You'll join a team of talented professionals who are committed to innovation, continuous improvement, and creating solutions that make a real difference across our business.
What you will do
- Define and execute an analytics and insights roadmap aligned with enterprise, market, customer, and partner priorities.
- Transform strategic business questions into actionable analytical opportunities, KPI frameworks, data requirements, and decision-support solutions.
- Deliver meaningful insights into business performance, customer behaviour, claims experience, product results, portfolio trends, operational effectiveness, and emerging risks.
- Translate complex findings into clear recommendations and executive-ready narratives that drive informed decision-making.
- Establish scalable practices that improve prioritization, delivery, adoption, value realization, and continuous improvement.
- Lead the evolution from fragmented reporting toward trusted, enterprise-scale analytics products.
- Oversee the development of curated datasets, semantic models, certified metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and client-facing reporting solutions.
- Partner with Data Pipeline Engineering, Technology, Governance, Finance, and business leaders to strengthen analytics foundations and support critical business priorities.
- Improve self-service analytics capabilities while reducing manual effort, duplicated logic, and disconnected solutions.
- Ensure analytics products are scalable, reliable, understandable, and centered around real business decisions.
- Identify practical opportunities where advanced analytics, machine learning, predictive modeling, and AI can create measurable business value.
- Prioritize initiatives based on business impact, data readiness, adoption potential, and long-term sustainability.
- Establish governance, controls, explainability, data quality standards, and operating requirements needed to support responsible AI and advanced analytics.
- Guide innovative solutions from ideation through implementation, ensuring clear ownership, measurable outcomes, and long-term success.
- Lead, coach, and inspire a team of professionals across analytics, insights, business intelligence, reporting, and analytics engineering.
- Foster a culture focused on analytical excellence, collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and business.
Director, Analytics & Insights in Toronto employer: Securian Canada
At Securian Canada, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration. As the Director of Analytics & Insights, you'll not only lead a talented multidisciplinary team but also have access to extensive professional development opportunities in the vibrant city of Toronto. Our commitment to employee growth, coupled with competitive compensation and a focus on making a meaningful impact in the lives of Canadians, makes Securian Canada a truly rewarding place to work.
