Manager, Strategy

Loblaw Companies Limited•Brampton, ON

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Manager, Strategy role within the Super Market Division of Loblaw Companies Limited. This division operates over 500 locations across Canada, serving Canadians with essential products. The role focuses on driving sales, share, and profit growth through data-driven insights and strategic planning. The company emphasizes collaboration, commitment, and positively impacting the lives of Canadians. Loblaw Companies Limited is one of the country's largest employers and offers a hybrid working model, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career growth.

Requirements

Minimum 2 years previous work experience required.
Post-secondary undergraduate (finance, economics, commerce, engineering) required.
Comfortable with data analytics and the ability to derive actionable insights is required.
Detail oriented and strong time management skills.
Independent problem solving, critical thinking, and resourcefulness.
An innate sense of curiosity and willingness to learn.

Nice To Haves

Retail, merchandising, management consulting, and/or consumer goods experience strongly preferred.
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.
Experience with analytical tools, such as Python, SAS, R, SQL, PowerBI, would be an asset.

Responsibilities

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 competitive position and accelerate financial performance.
Conduct reviews of the competitive landscape and category deep dives on an ongoing basis.
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.
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.