Director, Control Brand Transformation

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

Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections is valued – as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country’s largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well®.

At Loblaw Companies Limited, we succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new job, this is where you belong.

The Impact You’ll Make:

As Director, Control Brand Transformation , you will act as the SVP’s operating partner and central coordination point across the Control Brand transformation agenda. This is a newly created role accountable for helping the SVP translate strategic priorities into a clear operating rhythm, integrated workplans, executive-ready materials, decision forums, follow-ups, and cross-functional accountability. You will work directly with the SVP on priority workstreams including brand transformations, Board and executive materials, annual planning, governance, and critical cross-functional initiatives. This is a senior transformation orchestration role, coordinating across senior leaders and teams to ensure transformation workstreams move with pace, discipline, and clarity.

What You’ll Do:

• 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.

What You’ll Bring:

• 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.

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 leadership 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.

Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :

$128,000.00 - $176,000.00 / 128.000,00$ - 176.000,00$ (per year / par an)

A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for a newly created position. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste nouvellement créé. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.