Sr. Market Data Analyst
Apply NowCompany: LightBox Employer LLC
Location: Richmond Hill, ON L4B 0A1
Description:
Position Overview:
The Sr. Market Data Analyst will report to our Manager, Content Acquisition. This role will be part of our Content Acquisition team and help us become the leading source of real estate information within Canada by expanding our existing content coverage, introducing new data sources, and ensuring the highest standards of quality while updating our data. This role will work with cross functional leaders from Engineering, Product, Support and Sales to help maintain and grow our Canadian products.
What you will do and achieve:
Who you are:
Education
Experience
Key Knowledge & Skills
Other Desirable Attributes
This job description is a general listing of the required tasks and expectations of the position and in no way implies that the duties listed above are the employee's only responsibilities. The employee is expected to perform other tasks, responsibilities and training as instructed by their supervisors. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.
This position may require additional hours outside of the standard work schedule including occasional holiday, evening and/or weekend hours in order to meet deadlines or to accommodate customers.
LightBox and all its holding companies are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. It is the policy of the LightBox and its holding companies to prohibit discrimination of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
NO TELEPHONE CALLS OR AGENCY SOLICITATION PLEASE.
The Sr. Market Data Analyst will report to our Manager, Content Acquisition. This role will be part of our Content Acquisition team and help us become the leading source of real estate information within Canada by expanding our existing content coverage, introducing new data sources, and ensuring the highest standards of quality while updating our data. This role will work with cross functional leaders from Engineering, Product, Support and Sales to help maintain and grow our Canadian products.
What you will do and achieve:
- Sourcing content from public and partner sources to support our Canadian products.
- Work closely with the data ingestion team to build best in class processes for data capture, loading, and maintenance. Additionally, this role will work with Product Leaders within LightBox to source and manage content in support of new product development.
- Work closely with the Manager, Content Acquisition to establish best practices for data procurement, process documentation, automation and vendor management.
- Manage vendor and partner content agreements by collaborating with internal stakeholders (business segments, Legal and Finance teams) to meet our business needs. This role will also influence establishing best practices and processes for content procurement.
- Monitor and maximize efficiencies for our Canadian market data budget.
- Efficiently procure, source, onboard existing and new data sources with a high bar for quality
- Collaborate with data engineering team for onboarding new content and advocate for process improvements to drive our data platform forward with a metrics-driven, continuous improvement approach
- Create, test, monitor, and improve key data quality metrics tied to the customer experience
- Proactively manage existing data licensing agreements and develop performance/relationship management metrics to ensure budget dollars are aligned with our overall corporate strategy. Maintain relationships and directly interface with third party data providers to onboard and update content successfully.
- Research and identify alternate data sources to ensure that we are positioned effectively in the market from a content quality standpoint.
Who you are:
Education
- Completion of Undergraduate Degree
Experience
- 4+ years of relevant experience at a software (GIS) or data company.
- 2+ years of experience sourcing and maintaining large data sets for use in commercial products/offerings.
- Experience with contract management and negotiations
Key Knowledge & Skills
- Comfortable working with large datasets. Preferably GIS oriented datasets.
- Strong excel, SQL skills
- Strong working knowledge of data licensing concepts and contract verbiage
- Working knowledge of managing data/vendor partner agreements
Other Desirable Attributes
- Working with Product, Finance, and Legal teams is preferred
- Familiarity with mapping or location intelligence or real estate data sector within Canada is a plus.
- Detail-oriented, outstanding communicators, and are quick to learn new technologies/concepts
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
This job description is a general listing of the required tasks and expectations of the position and in no way implies that the duties listed above are the employee's only responsibilities. The employee is expected to perform other tasks, responsibilities and training as instructed by their supervisors. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.
This position may require additional hours outside of the standard work schedule including occasional holiday, evening and/or weekend hours in order to meet deadlines or to accommodate customers.
LightBox and all its holding companies are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. It is the policy of the LightBox and its holding companies to prohibit discrimination of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
NO TELEPHONE CALLS OR AGENCY SOLICITATION PLEASE.