(CAN) Merchant

Walmart•Mississauga, ON

3d•CA$91,900 - CA$126,390•Onsite

About The Position

This role designs, develops, and executes strategies for product categories, ensuring alignment with sales, qualitative, and quantitative criteria. This role involves managing merchandise profit and loss, including short-term and long-term planning, proactive/reactive management, and achieving targets for forecasts, sales, markdowns, market share growth, gross profit, and inventory. The role may develop category strategies by reviewing data sources, conducting item level assortment analysis, and making assortment decisions, including vendor and SKU optimization, price ladders, and private label/brand development. Regular store visits and proactive communication of strategies to cross-functional teams may be essential for appropriate planning and execution. Vendor management is a key responsibility, which may include negotiating and managing agreements, costs, allowances, quality, and delivery terms to drive supplier performance. The role requires developing and maintaining vendor relationships, potentially both domestic and international. The role may also be accountable for all marketing aspects of the category, including tab space planning, item level planning, selection, forecasting, and execution for various media. Ensuring the accuracy of final media and developing exit strategies for inventory residue may also be part of the role. The role oversees new item and promotional forecasts, identifies item deletions, manages markdowns/markups/price adjustments, and develops exit strategies. Leading line reviews, delivering store-ready modulars and seasonal sets on time, and completing promotional planning activities are crucial tasks. Additionally, the role involves attending trade shows and buying trips to identify new vendors and enhance product categories. The role provides coaching and direction to team members and may mentor others as needed. Additional responsibilities may include providing administrative support for supplier negotiations, managing purchase orders, and resolving supplier issues. The role supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships with key stakeholders, determining necessary processes and practices, and adapting to organizational changes. Ensuring the execution of customer communication and education programs, collaborating with modular and site merchandising teams, and ensuring product page content accuracy are also key tasks. The role involves understanding customer behavior across channels, guiding suppliers and vendors in developing customer-focused processes and products, and supporting category finances by tracking performance against financial targets. Creating sales reports, supporting forecasting, and providing input on budgeting are essential functions. The role may also support the implementation of modular layout principles, advise on item sharing and replenishment, and support pricing decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required in Business or relevant field
3–5 years of relevant experience in a similar role
Grocery retail experience required
Strong negotiation, vendor management, and analytical skills
Excellent communication and organizational abilities
Age – 16 or older

Nice To Haves

Fresh buying experience preferred

Responsibilities

Designs, develops, and executes strategies for product categories.
Manages merchandise profit and loss, including planning, management, and achieving targets for forecasts, sales, markdowns, market share growth, gross profit, and inventory.
Develops category strategies by reviewing data sources, conducting item level assortment analysis, and making assortment decisions.
Negotiates and manages vendor agreements, costs, allowances, quality, and delivery terms.
Develops and maintains vendor relationships.
Accountable for all marketing aspects of the category, including tab space planning, item level planning, selection, forecasting, and execution for various media.
Ensures accuracy of final media and develops exit strategies for inventory residue.
Oversees new item and promotional forecasts, identifies item deletions, manages markdowns/markups/price adjustments, and develops exit strategies.
Leads line reviews, delivers store-ready modulars and seasonal sets on time, and completes promotional planning activities.
Attends trade shows and buying trips to identify new vendors and enhance product categories.
Provides coaching and direction to team members and may mentor others.
Provides administrative support for supplier negotiations, manages purchase orders, and resolves supplier issues.
Supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships with key stakeholders, determining necessary processes and practices, and adapting to organizational changes.
Ensures the execution of customer communication and education programs.
Collaborates with modular and site merchandising teams.
Ensures product page content accuracy.
Understands customer behavior across channels.
Guides suppliers and vendors in developing customer-focused processes and products.
Supports category finances by tracking performance against financial targets.
Creates sales reports, supports forecasting, and provides input on budgeting.
Supports the implementation of modular layout principles.
Advises on item sharing and replenishment.
Supports pricing decisions.