Senior Director, Merchandising (Dairy/Frozen)

Walmart Canada; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Walmart Canada in Mississauga is seeking a strategic merchandising leader to guide a large portfolio, overseeing assortment, pricing, and negotiations to achieve profit and growth targets. The role collaborates with Category Managers and Replenishment to optimize assortment and drive total sales.

Leadership expectations emphasize developing talent, coaching teams, and maintaining alignment with Walmart’s values while driving customer value through an omni-merchant approach and disciplined

Responsibilities

• Develop portfolio strategy aligned with broader objectives.
• Forecast sales, market share, gross profit and inventory levels.
• Approve pricing strategies, markdown actions and maintain inventory levels.
• Collaborate with Category Managers, Replenishment and cross-functional partners.
• Develop and mentor merchandising team; establish development and succession plans.

Job description

Position Summary

This role leads the strategic direction of a large portfolio, overseeing assortment, pricing, and negotiations to ensure competitive positioning and the achievement of profit and growth targets.

What you’ll do

The role develops the portfolio strategy to align with broader business objectives, ensuring the delivery of profit and growth targets. This involves managing the Integrated Operation Plan and utilizing market research to create and execute a comprehensive portfolio strategy. The role is accountable for approving strategic category planning summaries and financial overviews, both short and long term. Forecasting sales, market share growth, gross profit, and inventory levels are crucial responsibilities. The role also involves approving pricing strategies, markdown actions, and collaborating with Category Managers and Replenishment to maintain budgeted inventory levels. Additionally, the role secures organizational resources to support capital investments and tests/pilots for future growth. The role ensures associate engagement and development, ensuring direct and indirect reports have current development and succession plans. Providing coaching and direction to the merchandising team and mentoring associates across the business is essential. The role also involves developing and maintaining key strategic vendor partnerships, ensuring vendors operate in alignment with organizational objectives and values. Collaboration with cross‑functional partners to optimize assortment strategies and drive total sales is also a key responsibility.

Leadership Expectations: Respect the Individual: Builds high‑performing teams; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace and experiences where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all. Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; builds the talent pipeline, fosters an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments; supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best talent. Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross‑functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action. Acts with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by taking action to advance opportunity, sustainability, community, and integrity (e.g., creating fair opportunities for associates and suppliers, driving local giving efforts). Ensures that teams follow the law, our code of conduct and company policies; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns, and models our culture of non‑retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action, and enabling others to do the same; holds self and teams accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values. Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self‑aware. Serve our Customers: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni‑merchant mindset and acting with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers. Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and implementing strategies. Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, and fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk‑taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks. Drives continuous improvements, supervises the adoption of new technology, and supports digital disruption in line with Walmart’s business model.

Walmart will accommodate the disability‑related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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