Manager, GO Analysis

• Provides senior leadership and expertise in the development of robust ridership benefit revenue and impact analysis to inform Metrolinx project planning and investment decision making.
• Manages the integration of long-term ridership economic and financial impact analysis with on-the-ground data to ensure the quality and continuous improvement of analytic deliverables.
• Promotes the integration of analysis best practices to accelerate and facilitate the adoption of these analysis practices in the teams work products.
• Determines scope of analysis projects deliverables and prioritizes competing requests. Evaluates requirements to ensure data and other resources are available and adaptable to meet client needs.
• Builds strong working relationships with counterparts in business units across the organization as well as industry peers government officials academia and other external stakeholders to understand and communicate research and analytical requirements and advance the state of analysis.
• Creates a culture of innovation by leading the development implementation and continuous improvement of analytical frameworks standards and planning tools.

What Skills and Qualifications Do I Need

• University degree in economics planning engineering or a related discipline or a combination of education training and experience deemed equivalent.

• Graduate degree and/or professional experience with strong emphasis on quantitative analysis ridership forecasting economic cost benefit financial analysis and other transportation analytics methods and application would be an asset

• Minimum 8 years of related experience in progressive leadership roles managing planning tools analysis standards and research that drive investment decision-making across an organization.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and lead staff and project teams.

• Knowledge of principles theories concepts and practices of economic cost-benefit analysis financial analysis and ridership forecasting.

• Knowledge of principles theories concepts and practices of transportation planning including transit planning public policy urban planning and transport economics.

• Problem solving skills to resolve conflicting priorities and to facilitate collaborative approaches to address analytical requests in a fast-paced environment..

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as interpersonal skills to manage internal and external relationships deliver presentations and lead report writing activities.