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Manager, Strategy

Manager, Strategy

Loblaw Companies LimitedBrampton, ON
30+ days ago
Salary
CAD90000–CAD105000 yearly
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

With more than 500 locations across the country and over 70,000 colleagues, the 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 leaders 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 Discount team today and help feed Everyone!

Role Mandate :

Manage and lead the development and implementation of key strategic initiatives for Category, Operations, Promo, and Capital teams within the Loblaw Companies Market Division. Provide analytical support to enable the Market Division to drive operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve profitability.

What You'll Do :

  • Act as a strategic thought leader within the Market Division, providing data-based insights and identifying opportunities to drive sales, share, and profit growth.
  • Support the development of category-specific strategies and associated tactics by partnering with Category, Operations, Promo, Marketing, and Analytics teams.
  • Conduct reviews of the competitive landscape and category deep dives on an ongoing basis.
  • 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.
  • Create reports and conduct large data set analysis surrounding pilot program results.
  • Design and develop program / project presentations to key executive stakeholders within the business.
  • Participate in the annual long-term strategic planning process by working with the Market Leadership Team and central support functions (e.g., Digital, Loyalty, Advance).
  • Support and execute key initiatives from the Division’s annual plan, leading analytics and strategy development in conjunction with internal stakeholders.

What You'll Need :

  • Minimum 2 years previous work experience required. Retail, merchandising, management consulting, and / or consumer goods experience strongly preferred.
  • Post-secondary undergraduate (finance, economics, commerce, engineering) and / or graduate education (MBA) preferred.
  • Retail Operations experience and a knowledge of the LCL Enterprise, including support functions, strongly preferred.
  • Excellent communication skills, comfortable presenting to a room of senior executives.
  • Knowledge of Loblaw systems, data sources, and metrics is an asset.
  • Comfortable with data analytics 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.
  • Independent problem solving, critical thinking, and resourcefulness.