VP, Category Management - Food, OTC and Adjacent Business

Shoppers Drug Mart; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Canada seeks a Category Management professional to oversee departmental performance and guide a team. The role involves developing strategic plans, managing vendor relationships, and achieving financial goals. Ideal candidates will possess advanced business acumen, strong negotiation skills, and over 10 years of relevant experience.

Benefits

Purchase discount program

Competitive pay

Online learning through Academy

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years retail, business, marketing or equivalent experience.
• Requires advanced business and strategic planning knowledge.
• Post-secondary education equivalent to a Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic direction for departmental performance.
• Manage vendor relationships and financial objectives.
• Oversee workload, staff supervision, and performance evaluations.

Skills

Negotiation

Strategic Planning

Communication

Business Acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Retail or related field

Job description

Location:

243 Consumers Road, Toronto, Ontario, M2J 4W8

At Shoppers Drug Mart, we’re innovating health and wellness in Canada. From prescriptions to walk-in clinics, and a beloved loyalty program, we’re caring and supporting our customers in new ways every day.
With more than 1,300 locally owned and operated stores from coast to coast, the Shoppers Drug Mart network is more than a great place to shop, it’s a great place to work. We’re committed to building our talented team who champion collaboration, kindness and inclusivity. Join our team, and help recognize a healthy future for your career and for all Canadians.

Why this role is important?

Position Summary:

Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President, Front Store & Category Management, the incumbent will guide, direct and oversee a team of Category Management professionals to ensure the maximization of sales, profits and market share for all categories within the business unit.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and provide strategic direction and plans to enhance and drive departmental performance.
• Manage components of vendor relationships including financial objectives, targets, joint business plan objectives and tracking, and ensuring mutual objectives are achieved.
• Prepare and achieve financial budgets by category to increase market share, top line sales, gross profit dollars and program funds, while minimizing and reducing costs and all other related category expenses.
• Develop, execute and monitor and continually adjust a promotional strategy plan to drive top line sales and increase gross margin dollar profit.
• Manage, evaluate, develop and implement category tactics and strategies to maximize efficiency and adapt to changes in the marketplace to ensure market share growth. Develop and establish short and long term departmental goals, objectives policies and operating procedures.
• Oversee workload and provide staff supervision to ensure that work is done accurately, efficiently and complies with policies, procedures and standards as well as best working practices.
• Provide guidance, motivation, and performance review including hiring and terminating employees, maintain and enhance competency levels, identify future training requirements and achieve goals to increase performance.
• Attend various meetings with key stakeholders and senior management to ensure category management objectives and strategies are communicated and are aligned with the overall organizational plan.

Skills, Knowledge & Education:

Skills:

This position requires a superior level of initiative and judgment in order to organize and prioritize tasks, workload and projects. Courtesy, tact and diplomacy are required in dealing with colleagues in every day working relationships.

• Requires extensive knowledge and skill in multiple disciplines to be able to integrate them effectively and a capacity to understand and interpret conflicting goals and needs of diverse groups.
• Organizes a diverse function or integrated units by developing plans and setting directions.
• Negotiates in highly competitive or adversarial circumstances where extensive skills in negotiation or high levels of diplomacy are needed.
• Develops new techniques and innovative approaches to further continuous improvements.
• Decisions are highly complex in nature involving multiple elements, factors and interests to develop new models and processes to meet future needs within a framework of corporate policy, general direction, multiple needs and legislated compliance.
• Adaptable to set and prioritize work with multiple exceptions. Able to work with diverse personalities and styles.
• Communicates with clarity, verbally and in oneonone or group situations, or over the telephone.
• Communicates well in writing by composing clear documents; facility with editing and/or proof-reading is required.
• Computer skills to create and interpret reports, documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
• Business acumen - advanced knowledge of strategic planning, retail operations, public relations, project management and media, relationship management principles and practices.

Education & Job Knowledge:

Post secondary equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Retail or related field.

Experience:

Minimum 10 years retail, business, marketing or equivalent experience.

Why work at Shoppers Drug Mart?

Acting as consultants, supporting internal customers and the Associate-Owners, you will get experience unique to the retail industry while working for an award-winning national brand. Benefit from a purchase discount program, competitive pay and online learning through Academy.

Take ownership of your work and find more ways to care about your work, co-workers, customers and community.

How You’ll Succeed:

At Shoppers Drug Mart Inc., we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections.

If that sounds like you, and you are open-minded, responsive to change and up to the challenges provided in a fast-paced retail environment, apply today.

Employment Type:

Full time

Type of Role:

Regular

Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

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