Manager, Strategy

Loblaw Companies Limited; Brampton; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

On-site gym facility

Colleague Discount Program

Investment Savings programs

Job summary

Loblaw Companies Limited in Brampton is looking for a strategic leader to drive category development and analytics. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years in retail or consulting and a degree in finance or engineering. Responsibilities include leveraging data insights for category strategies, liaising with leadership, and presenting findings. The role offers a salary range of $80,000 to $110,000 per year, along with a hybrid working model and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in retail, merchandising, management consulting, or consumer goods.
• Strong analytical skills and familiarity with data-driven decision making.
• Experience presenting to senior executives is a must.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic thought leader driving category strategies.
• Conduct competitive analysis and identify growth opportunities.
• Support key initiatives from the Division’s annual plan.

Skills

Retail experience

Data analytics

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Critical thinking

Education

Undergraduate degree in finance, economics, commerce, or engineering

Tools

Python

SQL

PowerBI

Job description

Role Mandate

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

What You’ll Do

Strategy Development

• Act as a strategic thought leader, providing data‑driven insights and identifying opportunities to drive sales, share, and profit growth.
• Support the development of category‑specific strategies and associated tactics that improve our competitive position and accelerate financial performance.
• Conduct reviews of the competitive landscape and category deep dives on an ongoing basis.

Strategic Initiative Support

• 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 and translating results into actionable, strategic next steps.
• Create reports and conduct large data set analysis surrounding pilot program results; engage data‑driven insights and financial impact with Category and Senior Leadership.
• Design and develop program/project presentations to key executive stakeholders within the business.

Quarterly and Annual Planning

• Support and execute key initiatives from the Division’s annual plan, leading analytics and strategy development in conjunction with internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Category teams to ensure category strategies are developed to support divisional annual plan.

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) required.
• 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.
• An innate sense of curiosity and willingness to learn.

Our Commitment

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.

Eligibility and Diversity

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

$80,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year. 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 an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position.