Senior Director, Strategy and Analytics | Director in Executive Job at Loblaw Companies in Brampto1

Reports to: SVP

Role Mandate:
Enables the National Wholesale format to continuously analyze where we are winning and losing and why, provide day to day decision support to format lead and bring together overall "go to market" approach for the format.

Accountabilities:

•Responsible for providing the format lead with analytic and strategic support (e.g. leakage analysis by customer segment, category and competitor)
•Maintain and communicate format planning calendar to consolidate and prioritize all format activities
•Aligning format plans to LCL annual business objectives. Facilitating planning meetings to collaborate with business leads to develop business and financial objectives. Coordinating the development, analysis, and implementation of business plans and strategic initiatives/projects (e.g. Sauna, GFS)
•Create supporting materials on a quarterly basis to assist promo and marketing event planning by providing competitive trends, predictability, share hurdles in key weeks
•Lead key format initiatives and projects through all stages of a typical project life cycle
•Drive and influence work stream leads/ project managers on program activities to ensure deliverables are achieved on time, within budget and achieve the strategic goals of the program
•Collaborate with format team to assist in the development of long-term strategic plans to improve market position, competitive position, sales and profit.
•Lead the collection and analysis of market, competitive and industry insight to support the development of these plans
•Design, structure and ensure completion of analytics to allow for effective business decision making and support adoption of new business strategies
•Identify internal experts required and develop strategic approaches to resolve business issues
•Collaborate across the business to identify opportunities, to develop and implement improved business strategies within the format on an on-going basis
•Review and monitor the consistent execution of strategies and the timely completion of major initiatives
•Measure business performance against plan and identify and lead corrective action. Monitor the achievement of performance targets that drive key business results
•Collaborate with format teams to develop and manage planogram process, listing guardrails, milestones and reporting

Other duties as assigned

Role Requirements:
•University or college degree in business, or an equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
•7-10 years of relevant work experience in retailing, advertising, marketing or merchandising environment
•People Management skills are a must
•Ability to take on larger scale projects with minimal supervision