Senior Business Advisor (Analytics)

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for driving operational excellence? Join our Enterprise Data Strategy & Services team as a Senior Business Advisor, where you'll play a critical role in shaping the future of our organization.

In this role, you will provide confidential advice and guidance to senior management on key operations and strategic initiatives, leveraging your expertise in data, algorithms, and experimental design to support system implementations of embedded analytics, tools and processes. Your insights will not only influence decision-making and problem-solving but also identify opportunities to increase operational effectiveness across the board. You'll also make a significant impact and help the organization navigate the complexities of business process change.

How you'll make a difference: You'll drive improvements to data, measurement, and impact assessment processes that will improve our organization's ability to maximize the benefits we create for the workers and employers of B.C.

Where you'll work
At WorkSafeBC, we offer a model that combines the convenience of working remotely with the dynamism of working in one of our offices, based on the operational needs of the position.

In this role, you'll work primarily from our Richmond office, with some flexibility to work from your home in B.C.

• Support the integration of embedded analytics, machine learning models, and advanced algorithms into decision-making processes.
• Lead process and change management initiatives to drive adoption of predictive, prescriptive, and optimization algorithms.
• Advise leadership on data, measurement, and experimentation-related business process improvement initiatives, including research into the implementation and its impacts.
• Facilitate strategic business planning discussions and provide guidance on implementing strategic objectives.
• Evaluate business improvement options, project viability, and economic implications through business case analysis and feasibility assessments.
• Conduct comprehensive program reviews to identify operational efficiencies, financial inefficiencies, and opportunities for optimization and automation, with a core focus on improving key data, measurement, and experimentation-related processes, outputs, and outcomes.

We're looking for people who can:

• Leverage AI, machine learning, and statistical modeling to drive innovation and process optimization.
• Implement experimentation frameworks to validate and optimize machine learning algorithms.
• Communicate and present complex ideas clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, including senior management.
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams and build productive relationships by leveraging a consultative approach.
• Use data-driven insights to identify challenges and opportunities.
• Navigate change with flexibility and resilience in a dynamic environment.
• Evaluate situations carefully and make informed decisions on critical organization wide initiatives.
• Lead and support cross-functional teams with project related activities.

Your background and experience

• A master's degree or designation in a related field.
• A minimum of three years of related experience including experience in:
• analytical and root cause analysis
• strategy development
• performance measurement
• Experimental design and execution experience
• Process design and related change management experience
• Experience with AI-driven decision support systems and predictive analytics is highly desirable.
• Algorithm deployment and MLOps experience is highly desirable.
• Consulting experience is highly desirable.

We'll consider equivalent combinations of education and experience.

Important to know
Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Consent to a criminal record check
• Confirm you're legally entitled to work in Canada

Who we are
At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We're honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What's it like to work at WorkSafeBC?
It's challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

Learn more: Discover who we are .

Our benefits
As a member of our team, you'll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work - and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

• Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
• 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
• Benefits package that includes customizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, and a health care spending account
• Optional leave arrangements
• Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)

Learn more: Find out what we offer .

Salary: $116,186 - $141,166 annually

Want to apply?

• Applications are welcomed immediately; however, they must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
• Please note that we will be starting assessments before the closing date.

We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require accommodation during the assessment process, please email Recruitment Testing Accommodation (SM) when you submit your application.