Intern: Commercial Insights & Portfolio Strategy

Equitable Bank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities domestically and

International advancement

Job summary

Bimbo Canada is seeking a strategic Commercial Insights Manager to transform complex category, customer, shopper and market data into clear, actionable insights for major retailers and internal decision makers. You will serve as the primary insights partner for key retail customers, deliver objective recommendations, and modernize reporting with AI tools to improve speed-to-insight across the organization.

This role collaborates with Sales, RGM and OMNI Marketing to align insights with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• 5–7 years of CPG experience in Category Management, Customer/Commercial Insights, Category Advisership, Sales Analytics, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of the Canadian retail and shopper landscape.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary insights partner for key retail customers, delivering unbiased insights that grow the category and improve shopper navigation.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with customer category teams and proactively surface opportunities and risks.
• Lead category reviews with fact-based recommendations, clear metrics, and concise storytelling that simplifies decisions.
• Embed insights into JBPs, promotional reviews, and strategic conversations, ensuring decisions are grounded in clear, outcome-focused narratives.
• Deliver decision-ready communication and monthly performance scorecards with fresh insights, prioritized actions, and follow-through.
• Analyze category, shopper, and market trends to identify growth opportunities, risks, and whitespace.
• Leverage data to produce dashboards, scorecards, and executive-ready insights highlighting drivers of performance.
• Planogram & Space Optimization; create and update planograms to support category strategy and merchandising excellence.
• Recommend improvements to space-to-sales, days of supply, and inventory efficiency.

Skills

Category Management

Customer Insights

Data Analytics

Excel

PowerPoint

Storytelling

Retail experience Canada

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Economics, or related field

Tools

JDA/Blue Yonder/Apollo

Circana/IRI

Retail Link

dunnhumby

LDIA

Job description

Bimbo Canada is seeking a strategic Commercial Insights Manager to transform complex category, customer, shopper and market data into clear, actionable insights for major retailers and internal decision makers. You will serve as the primary insights partner for key retail customers, deliver objective recommendations, and modernize reporting with AI tools to improve speed-to-insight across the organization.

This role collaborates with Sales, RGM and OMNI Marketing to align insights with