Delivery Manager (Business Analytics) - 15 Month Term
Article
*Please note this is a fixed-term role for a 15-month duration (mat leave coverage)
Why We Need You:
Within the BIA department, your responsibilities will span the full agile delivery lifecycle, from backlog refinement and sprint planning through execution, review, and continuous improvement. You will partner closely with BIA leadership, technical-focused analysts, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure analytics initiatives are well-scoped, prioritized, and delivered effectively.
You will be providing support to the whole company. The breakdown of resource allotment for each function looks like:
Retail (eComm/Brick and Mortar)/Category Management = 30%
Supply Chain = 30%
Logistics = 30%
Other Functions = 10%
This role is critical in helping analytics teams navigate dependencies, balance exploratory work with delivery commitments, and continuously improve how analytics work gets done.
Why Article?
As a Particle (people of Article), you will have a high level of autonomy to solve challenging, meaningful problems the best way you can. That means you’re trusted to explore solutions you believe will work best (you’re the expert, after all). You’ll do all this while growing your skills within a company that is redefining the furniture industry.
About the Business Intelligence and Analytics team:
The team is split into two - Business Operations and Data Operations.
The Data Operation arm focuses on data modeling, optimizing the data infrastructure, and pipelines.
Business Operations focuses on translating that data into insights and actions that drive business decisions and performance for the stakeholders listed above. The focus of this role will lean more towards Business Operations.
We are a hybrid team - you'll be in the office 3 days per week (The team is flexible on the specific days you choose to be in during the week)
- Department
- Business Intelligence + Analytics
- Employment Type
- Fixed Term - Full Time
- Location
- Vancouver
- Address
- 1010 Raymur Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6A 3T2
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Compensation
- $110,000 - $140,000 / year
- Reporting To
- Nelson Tsuboi
What You’ll Do:
Agile Facilitation & Delivery
- Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for analytics teams
- Own BIA backlog, including refinement and prioritization. Make trade-off decisions to maximize value
- Promote agile principles while adapting practices to fit analytics workflows (e.g., exploratory analysis, data validation, experimentation)
- Track and report on sprint progress, velocity, capacity, and delivery risks
Analytics Team Enablement
- Support analytics delivery across BI, data science, experimentation, and reporting initiatives
- Help teams manage dependencies across data engineering, product, marketing, and other cross-functional partners
- Guide teams in breaking down complex analytics initiatives into achievable, well-scoped work
- Balance delivery commitments with the iterative and exploratory nature of analytics work
Stakeholder & Communication Management
- Act as a bridge between analytics teams and business stakeholders to improve clarity, alignment, and expectations
- Facilitate clear communication around scope, timelines, trade-offs, and delivery risks
- Help stakeholders understand agile analytics delivery and set realistic expectations
Continuous Improvement
- Identify and remove blockers that slow down analytics delivery (e.g., data access, unclear requirements, tooling gaps)
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and actionable follow-ups
- Support the adoption of best practices in agile analytics delivery, documentation, and workflow management
Who You Are:
- 5-8+ years of experience as a Delivery Manager (Product Ownership and Project Management responsibilities) within an Analytics team.
- Strong understanding of data engineering, BI, and analytics ecosystems
- Experience using Agile delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms
- Experience with analytics and data platforms such as Databricks and Tableau
- Proven ability to influence and align stakeholders at all levels
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving requirements
- Able to balance structure with flexibility in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborative, proactive, and outcomes-oriented working style
- SQL/Python experience
- Experience managing data analytics or AI solution projects
- Retail industry experience, spanning logistics, supply chain, and sales
- Legally able to work in Canada (up to FULL TIME HOURS year-round/ no Student VISA)
- Completion of a criminal background check
Perks & Benefits:
- The salary range is $110,000 to $140,000
- Starting salary is determined by your transferable skills, knowledge, work experience, and the hiring team’s budget, which is based on business needs, market compensation data, and internal equity
- 20 days of vacation*
- 1 extra day off (Inclusion and Diversity Day)
- 6 well-being (sick) days
- Hybrid work: 3 days a week in the office
- Work remotely (anywhere in the world) for up to 3 weeks
- Excellent extended health and dental benefits packages
- $1000 health/lifestyle spending account* for your total physical and mental well-being
- TELUS Health App
- Mental Health Assistance/Counseling
- Virtual medical appointments
- The Article HQ is a converted warehouse, with an open accessible layout and no offices (even for our founders)
- Work from your desk, an Article sofa, collaboration spaces, or a private meeting room
- Standup desks can be requested too
- Our kitchens are stocked with salty, sweet and healthy snacks, & all the premium coffees and teas to keep you buzzing
- Onsite fitness equipment with showers and towel service
- Pickleball, badminton, and table tennis matches happen, from very competitive to very casual
- A dog-friendly office - well-socialized pups are welcome
- Free street parking (first come, first serve; no reserved spots for senior leaders)
- Indoor secure bike storage with change rooms and showers
- 20-minute walk to either Main Street- Science World or VCC Clark Skytrain stations
- 45% discount on our entire product range (15% for friends and family)
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About Article
- Vancouver, Canada is home to our HQ (and our first retail store)
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam is home to our Asia HQ
- Our US and Canadian logistics network serves our customers coast to coast
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From us, you can expect that humans make hiring decisions.
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