Director, Brand Transformation Orchestrator

Loblaw Companies Limited; Brampton; On-site; CAD 128,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Loblaw Companies Limited is seeking a Director, Control Brand Transformation in Canada to partner with the SVP and coordinate the Control Brand transformation across senior leaders. You will establish the operating rhythm, manage workstreams, and deliver executive-ready materials to accelerate priority initiatives.

You will lead multiple cross-functional workstreams, ensuring governance, timelines, and accountability across the transformation program, while maintaining close collaboration with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in strategy, transformation, program leadership, business operations, consulting, retail, CPG, or complex matrixed environments.
• Proven experience leading multiple complex workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of Loblaw or a similarly complex enterprise environment; prior LCL experience strongly preferred.
• Strong ability to synthesize complex information into clear plans, narratives, and executive-ready materials.
• Highly proactive, organized, action-oriented, and comfortable driving accountability across senior stakeholders.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence without formal authority.
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and detailed levels.
• Advanced communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage the operating rhythm for the Control Brand transformation, including leadership meetings, workstream reviews, decision forums, executive updates, and follow-up mechanisms.
• Ensure the SVP has clear visibility to priorities, risks, decisions required, stakeholder issues, and upcoming enterprise commitments.
• Create the structure that enables the leadership team to operate with pace, alignment, and accountability.
• Lead coordination across priority transformation workstreams, including brand transformation, annual planning, Board materials, executive reviews, and other SVP-led strategic initiatives.
• Manage integrated timelines, milestones, deliverables, owners, and dependencies across workstreams.
• Ensure workstreams are connected, sequenced, and not duplicative.
• Work closely with the SVP to capture priorities, decisions, expectations, and actions from meetings and convert them into clear execution plans.
• Ensure decisions are documented, owners are assigned, timelines are clear, and follow-through is actively managed.
• Identify where issues require SVP intervention and where they can be resolved at the team level.
• Establish clear governance for cross-functional workstreams, including agendas, pre-reads, decision logs, action trackers, escalation paths, and status reporting.
• Proactively identify risks, gaps, misalignment, unresolved decisions, and resource constraints.
• Drive resolution quickly by engaging the right stakeholders and escalating with clear options where needed.
• Support the SVP in preparing high-quality materials for senior executive meetings, Board discussions, annual planning, transformation updates, and key decision forums.
• Synthesize complex inputs into clear, concise narratives that are appropriate for executive audiences.
• Ensure materials reflect strategic clarity, commercial logic, enterprise impact, and credible execution plans.
• Act as the single point of coordination across teams and stakeholders for SVP-led transformation priorities.
• Ensure seamless information flow between the SVP, direct reports, cross-functional partners, and enterprise stakeholders.
• Travel with the SVP to key meetings where required, ensuring context, decisions, actions, and follow-ups are captured and advanced.

Skills

Strategy leadership

Transformation program leadership

Executive communications

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Delivery planning

Strategic storytelling

Job description

Loblaw Companies Limited is seeking a Director, Control Brand Transformation in Canada to partner with the SVP and coordinate the Control Brand transformation across senior leaders. You will establish the operating rhythm, manage workstreams, and deliver executive-ready materials to accelerate priority initiatives.

You will lead multiple cross-functional workstreams, ensuring governance, timelines, and accountability across the transformation program, while maintaining close collaboration with