Product Manager, Backoffice Services

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Product Manager, Backoffice Services, Brampton, ON

This is a critical role within our Stores Backoffice Services Product Management team! As a Product Manager, you will leverage your unique blend of product leadership and software development expertise to shape the essential tools and systems that empower our store colleagues every day. You'll be building solutions that streamline in-store operations, enhance efficiency, and directly impact the productivity and experience of thousands of Loblaw colleagues across our grocery and pharmacy stores nationwide.

You will translate complex operational needs and evolving business requirements into a compelling product vision, strategy, and executable roadmap. Your mission will be to deliver Backoffice solutions that are not only scalable and cost-effective but are also seamlessly aligned with Loblaw's broader strategic goals for retail excellence. If you're a technically-minded Product Manager passionate about optimizing complex systems and delivering tangible impact for frontline retail operations, this role is for you!

What You’ll Do

• Strategic Roadmap Ownership : Lead the development and execution of the Stores Backoffice Services product roadmap, defining a clear vision, strategy, priorities, and key milestones in close collaboration with store operations, engineering, regional management, and other key business stakeholders.
• Deep Dive Discovery : Conduct in-depth user research and analysis with store colleagues and operational teams. Translate diverse operational needs and business requirements into precise product requirements, detailed user stories, comprehensive specifications, and measurable metrics for backoffice tools.
• End-to-End Delivery : Oversee the entire product delivery lifecycle, working hand-in-hand with engineering, design, and operations teams to deliver features and improvements that meet high standards of quality, timeliness, and operational effectiveness for our stores.
• Performance & Optimization : Own and drive key backoffice KPIs and metrics (e.g., task completion time, system uptime, user adoption rates, training effectiveness, reduction in manual processes). You'll define, track, report, and continuously iterate based on data-driven insights and store feedback.
• Innovation & Efficiency : Proactively identify and prioritize opportunities for automation, process improvements, and scaling backoffice capabilities, expertly balancing trade-offs between cost, speed, reliability, and colleague experience.
• Data-Driven Decisions : Conduct robust quantitative and qualitative analysis, leveraging data, direct feedback from stores, and operational insights to make informed, impactful product decisions.
• Stakeholder Management : Cultivate strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization, including store leadership and regional teams, ensuring transparent communication regarding roadmap progress, trade-off decisions, and potential risks, and skillfully negotiating priorities with business leaders.
• Compliance & Security : Ensure that compliance, security, and regulatory considerations are meticulously incorporated into all Stores Backoffice product designs and implementations.

What You’ll Bring

What Loblaw Offers You

We offer flexibility and balance, and an environment that sets you up for success no matter where your workspace is located.

Here, you will find a great team to help you achieve your goals as you help us achieve ours! Work in our fast‑paced, exciting Technology environment, helping our stores, colleagues and customers every day.

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If you’re up to the challenge, then we would love to hear from you. Apply today, and get the process started.

Loblaw recognizes Canada’s diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. At Loblaw, we celebrate diversity and strive to build a culture of inclusion where differences are embraced, valued and supported. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and encourage people from all backgrounds and identities to apply to our jobs. Accommodation in the recruitment, assessment, and hiring process is available upon request for applicants with disabilities.

We thank all candidates for their interest but please note, those candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the position will be contacted.

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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.

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