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Objective: Support digital team sites and applications through developing and executing analytics requirements, maintenance of professional and accurate web analytics tagging, dashboards and investigations.

Liaises with: Analytics Manager; Product Managers; Delivery Managers; Editorial and Marketing business units

Reports to: Director of Delivery & Shared Services

Key responsibilities:

Analytics Health

• Ensure integrity of harvested data, and dashboards within analytics tools such as Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics and other analytics tools;
• Analyze data errors to isolate code issues needing adjustment;

Development Team Support

• Provide clear and timely requirements that give developers appropriate instructions on how to implement tagging, or data storage in order to enable tagging;
• Ensure all aspects of analytics code are aligned with development best practices
• Support UAT process and ensure that dev solutions meet business requirements;
• Work directly with devops as integrations and projects demand (site migrations, new QA setups, admin management)

Product Team and Organizational Support

• Build and maintain dashboards that illustrate product KPIs and analytic data;
• Investigate and/or fulfill requests that require deeper analytics application knowledge and/or data research;
• Enable organization to understand and make use of analytics concepts, platforms and dashboards;
• Assist additional business units with reporting requirements and delivery (dashboards or post-development);

General Analytics

• Provide and maintain contemporary analytics solutions;
• Keep Torstar using modern implementations and tools;
• Recommend enterprise analytics solutions and licensing models;
• Keep all Torstar properties in sync in terms of technologies and implementation standards;
• Analyze data for compliance with various best practices and Google guidelines.

Technical Skills Required:

• Javascript
• Vanilla JS

Nice to have:

• Adobe Analytics and Tag Manager
• Google Analytics and Tag Manager
• Google Ad Manager
• Excel VBA
• Data Studio
• Familiarity with JSON
• A/B testing
• React JS

Other Experience

• Familiarity with E-commerce flow
• Familiarity with News Publication sites

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