City : North York, Ontario

Category : Hourly Temporary/Contract-to-hire

Industry : Recruitment/Staffing

Employer : The Adecco Group

Adecco is currently hiring for a Merchandising Coordinator - Promotions / Retail in North York, ON. This is a full-time, temporary offering $29 per hour. In this role, you will liaise with various departments and participate in special projects as required. The ideal candidate will understand merchandising, promotional practices, and procedures. Up for the challenge? Apply today! 

• Pay rate: $29/hour

• Location: North York, ON

• Job type: full-time, temporary (1 year with possibility of extension)

Responsibilities:      

• Coordinating auto shipment order generations (MOGs) to ensure adequate product for promotions and identify any concerns to be resolved prior to promotional events. 

• Writing store communications to ensure all stores have accurate promotional event information and providing promotional direction. 

• Providing weekly support to the Sr. Manager and Sr. Director in preparing/ updating financials and layout information for weekly meetings.

• Liaising with category management and marketing teams for tier one marketing flyer events.

• Responding/resolving any issues/discrepancies throughout the planning process. 

• Creating event flyers and other promotional materials to provide clear and accurate direction at the store level. 

• Creating the master event package for vendors and the entire business.

• Responding to emails and telephone enquiries from other departments to resolve issues or concerns in a prompt and effective manner. 

• Supporting category management, business analytics, and the promotions team in maintaining/approving promotions.

• Supporting manager, promo analytics with day-to-day P&L reporting, data gathering and cleaning. 

• Maintaining and updating new capital plan stores on all MOG inclusion lists and flyer event transmissions based on store criteria.  

• Maintaining and updating databases to protect data integrity and ensure accurate and current information is available as required. 

• Maintaining spreadsheets and calendars and distributes to various departments to ensure accurate updates are exchanged including flyer event codes, MOG schedules, page allocation updates. 

• Creating and coordinating promotional events and liaises with category management to ensure promotional event transmissions are accurate and concise. 

• Maintaining order exception lists and runs various reports to develop future promotional strategies and provide relevant data as required. 

• Providing regular and ad-hoc reporting and data analysis with understanding of retail business processes and products. 

• Supporting all data extraction, management, and integration initiatives. 

• Assisting with coaching new hires in Category Management/Promotions on various internal systems 

• Approving and managing event cancelations, promo change forms (PCFs) including pricing changes, product substitutions, regional product changes and store order cancelations. 

• Liaising with supply chain, inventory, category management and promotions teams on respective changes.

• Providing routine information to coordinate the assignments and work procedures of others.

• Participating in special projects as required.

Qualifications: 

• In-depth Knowledge of the MS Office suite, particularly MS Excel is required. 

• Knowledge in SQL, Excel / Access VBA is preferred.

• Computer skills to produce effective reports, documents and presentations as required.

• Demonstrated level of initiative and judgment to organize and prioritize tasks, workload and projects. Courtesy, tact, and diplomacy are required in dealing with colleagues in every day working relationships. 

• Understanding of inter-related work processes to be able to adapt to differing assignments. 

• Professional manner, tact, diplomacy, and discretion in dealing with clients and associates including senior management. 

• Ability to draw on several known options to solve problems and to develop improvements. 

• Adaptable to set and prioritize work with varying exceptions.  

• Able to work with diverse personalities and styles. 

• Understanding of merchandising, promotional practices and procedures.  

• Must be legally eligible to work, and reside in Canada 

Interested in this position in? Apply today and if qualified, an Adecco recruiter will contact you soon.
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