Ville : Toronto, Ontario

Catégorie : Full time

Industrie : Merchandising

Employeur : Shoppers Drug Mart®

Referred applicants must not apply directly to this role. All referred applicants must use their unique referral link generated when they are referred by an existing colleague.

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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?

What you'll do: 

• Lead quarterly and annual promotional allocation planning – including weekly space allocation and Legacy CPMS events set-up and transmissions. Perform regular audits to ensure Promotional plan is updated and maintained accurately.

• Responsible for all store transmissions, including approving and managing event cancellations, promo change forms (pricing changes/ product placement, CFO, MD, NSV, product Loyalty points…) and store communications.

• Develops flyer plan and page allocation schedule and distribution to ensure timelines are established, monitor the status, and ensure timely completion.

• Lead weekly flyer meetings to determine flyer status, plan future layouts based on sales, meet compliance and margin targets. Ensure flyers are completely accurately and on time.

• Determine flyer financial page budgets based on layout changes, events, and financial expectations. 

• Own the relationship with Category Management, ARI/ Business Optimization Analytics and the Promotions Team in maintaining accurate promotional planning and flyer forecast approvals.

• Enterprise relationships and tactical planning with Loyalty, Marketing; including Category Management (Prestige, OTC, HBA/ Mass, Food, Electronics). Provide Category Management insight feed-back to merch planning and work with teams to ensure promotional investment satisfies need to achieve budgeted results.

• Collaborate with marketing team to plan and integrate tier one events from start to finish into the flyer. This includes working cross –functionally with multiple front-store divisions to ensure sales and margin targets are achieved, the right product selection is featured and is aligned with the overall campaign theme.

• Identifies promotional conflicts, including overlapping events, overlapping promotions and loyalty events and manages promotions limitations.  System expert knowledge required to manage such overlaps.

• Identifies and prioritizes system enhancements and process improvements. Provides functional requirements and assist with UAT testing to ensure all projects are rolled out to all stores effectively.  

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

• Manage Promotions Team of Senior Coordinators – oversee their workloads and provides staff supervision to ensure that work is done accurately, efficiently and complies with policies, procedures, and standards as well as best working practices. 

• Responsible for delivering error-free flyer, including in-store promotional strategy & set up; lead "On-Call" support team on weekends for flyer correction & operational support (MCC/ Customer Care Centre)

What you bring: 

• An advanced 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.

• Strong process development and change management skills required for the growth of fast-paced, results-driven environment

• Strong technical and system knowledge an asset for Legacy CPMS, MMS, EPOS, SAP

• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple priorities

• Excellent attention to detail and quality control

• Strong decision-making, project management, planning and organizational skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to build relationships, influence others collaborate effectively with others.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to provide clear direction.

• Ability to navigate a work environment that is fast-paced and poses ambiguous business issues

• Lead weekly rotational ‘on-call’ coverage for any flyer issues that arise on Saturday’s to stores and rest of the business 

• Bachelor’s degree (Marketing, Business, or other related discipline or related experiences)

• Minimum of 3-5 years of related work experience in merchandising, promotional planning and/or retail operations or related experience within the retail and/or consumer packaged goods industries

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. 

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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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