Senior Manager, Strategy

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Venez faire votre différence dans les communautés à travers le Canada, où l'authenticité, la confiance et l'établissement de liens sont valorisés - alors que nous façonnons l'avenir du commerce de détail au Canada, ensemble. Notre position unique en tant que l'un des plus grands employeurs du pays, celle associée à notre engagement à avoir un impact positif sur la vie de tous les Canadiens, viens offrir à nos collègues une gamme d'opportunités et d'expériences pour aider les Canadiens à Vivre Bien, Vivre Pleinement.

Chez Les Compagnies Loblaw Limitée, nous réussissons grâce à la collaboration, à l'engagement et nous plaçons la barre haute pour nous-mêmes et ceux qui nous entourent. Que vous débutiez votre carrière, que vous réintégriez le marché du travail ou que vous recherchiez un nouvel emploi, votre place est avec nous.

With more than 500 locations across the country and over 70,000 colleagues, the Super Market Division provides Canadians with easy access to life’s necessities. Throughout our network of stores, customers find outstanding freshness, great value, and a broad assortment of products that will meet their needs, whatever their budget or tastes. We promote individuals who guide and inspire at every level and support our people to follow their passion. We have so much to offer, including a hybrid working model, comprehensive health and wellness benefits, on-site gym facility, Colleague Discount Program, Investment Savings programs and much more! Don’t wait, join our team today and help feed Everyone!

Role Mandate:

Manage and lead the development and implementation of key strategic initiatives for Home, Entertainment, Health, and Beauty (HEHB) departments by partnering with Category, Operations, Promo, and Capital teams within the Loblaw Companies Super Market Division. Provide methodical assistance to enable the Super Market Division to drive operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve profitability.

Note: This role will be located at the Loblaw head office in Brampton but may require travel to the downtown office (2 Fraser Avenue, Toronto, Ontario) from time to time.

What You'll Do:

Strategy Development

• Act as a strategic thought guide, providing data-driven insights and identifying opportunities to drive sales, share, and profit growth.
• Assist in the development of category-specific strategies and associated tactics that improve our competitive position and accelerate financial performance.
• Oversee the category and planogram review process for HEHB, partnering with Category and Control Brand teams to conduct in-depth evaluations focused on identifying space and assortment optimization opportunities, and driving strong governance to ensure on time execution.

Strategic Initiative Support

• Track and evaluate market share results to evaluate category strategies, determine drivers of outperformance, and diagnose underperformance at the banner and category levels.
• Develop tangible metrics to measure success of strategic initiatives ensuring performance is tracking towards targets and translating results into actionable, strategic next steps.
• Create reports and conduct large data set examinations surrounding pilot program results; engage data-driven insights and financial impact with Category and Senior Management.
• Design and develop program/project presentations to key executive stakeholders within the business.

Quarterly and Annual Planning

• Assist in executing key initiatives from the Division’s annual plan, guiding insights and strategy development in conjunction with internal stakeholders.
• Partner with Category teams to ensure category strategies are developed to support divisional annual plan.

What You'll Need:

• Minimum 4 years previous work experience required. Retail, merchandising, management consulting, and/or consumer goods experience strongly preferred.
• Post-secondary undergraduate (finance, economics, commerce, engineering) required.
• Retail Operations experience and a knowledge of the LCL Enterprise, including support functions, strongly preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, comfortable presenting to a room of senior executives.
• Knowledge of Loblaw systems, data sources, and metrics is an asset.
• Comfortable with data insights and the ability to derive actionable insights is required.
• Experience with analytical tools, such as Python, SAS, R, SQL, PowerBI, would be an asset.
• Detail oriented and strong time management skills.
• Autonomous problem solving, critical thinking, and resourcefulness.
• An innate sense of curiosity and willingness to learn.

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate guidance in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates, and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary, or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.

Please Note:

Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.

Notre engagement envers la durabilité et l'impact social est un élément essentiel de notre façon de faire des affaires. Nous concentrons notre attention sur les domaines où nous pouvons avoir le plus grand impact. Notre approche de la durabilité et de l'impact social repose sur trois piliers - l'environnement, l'approvisionnement et la communauté.  Nous recherchons constamment des moyens de faire preuve de leadership dans ces domaines importants. Nos valeurs ÊTRE – Engagement, Tient à coeur, Respect et Excellence – guident toutes nos prises de décision et prennent vie à travers notre culture bleue. Nous offrons à nos collègues des carrières progressives, une formation complète, de la flexibilité ainsi que les nombreux avantages compétitifs - voici quelques-unes des nombreuses raisons pour lesquelles nous sommes classés au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs du Canada, au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs pour la diversité au Canada, au palmarès des employeurs les plus verts au Canada et au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs pour les jeunes au Canada.

Si vous ne savez pas si votre expérience correspond à toutes les exigences ci-dessus, nous vous encourageons à postuler quand même. Nous recherchons des perspectives de candidatures variées, qui incluent des expériences diverses que nous pouvons ajouter à notre équipe.

Nous nous concentrons depuis longtemps sur la diversité, l'équité et l'inclusion, car nous savons que cela fera de notre entreprise un meilleur lieu de travail et de magasinage. Nous nous engageons à créer des environnements accessibles pour nos collègues, candidats et clients. Les demandes d'aménagement en raison d'un handicap (qui peut être visible ou pas, temporaire ou permanent) peuvent être faites à n'importe quel stade de la demande et de l'emploi. Nous encourageons les candidats à faire connaître leurs besoins en matière d'accommodation afin que nous puissions offrir des opportunités équitables.
 
Veuillez noter:
Les candidats âgés de 18 ans ou plus doivent effectuer une vérification des antécédents criminels. Les détails seront fournis lors du processus d’embauche.

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