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About the Role
The Category Assistant reports directly to the Category Director, supporting all product and financial processes associated with category management. This role assists in the general administration and management of categories and suppliers, maintaining data for flyers, supporting documents, and performing data retrieval and analysis for planograms, reviews, and supplier meetings.
Responsibilities
- Enters, maintains, and monitors critical information including key sales and financial data to prepare and analyze weekly sales reports.
- Prepares end-of-season postmortems and shares sales and sell-through data with vendors.
- Ensures data accuracy across SDM SAP and CPMS systems.
- Prepares and submits worksheets for flyers, merchandising plans, and seasonal spreadsheets with accurate estimates, sales, deal, retail, and shelf-life information.
- Proofs and edits flyers and other seasonal marketing initiatives for accuracy.
- Liaises with the vendor community to ensure on-time delivery of materials to drive category sales and growth.
- Provides support to the Marketing Call Centre to resolve issues efficiently.
- Prepares and distributes communications to stores regarding category information or updates.
- Manages samples for all seasonal programs.
- Monitors and liaises with relevant departments including Marketing, Planogram, Logistics, Inventory, and Promotions to resolve issues efficiently.
Requirements
- Demonstrated initiative and judgment to organize and prioritize tasks, workload, and projects.
- Courtesy, tact, and diplomacy required in dealing with colleagues.
- One to three years of general business or merchandising experience.
- Post-secondary education with courses in business, merchandising, or equivalent.
- Understanding of inter-related work processes to adapt to differing assignments.
- Understanding of the interdependent system coordination between SDM systems and processes.
- Ability to provide routine information to coordinate the assignments and work procedures of others.
- Professional manner, tact, diplomacy, and discretion in dealing with vendors and colleagues, including senior management.
- Ability to draw on known options to solve problems and develop improvements.
- Computer skills to produce effective spreadsheets, reports, documents, and presentations.
- Database management skills.
- Adaptability to set and prioritize work with varying exceptions.
- Clear communication verbally, via email, in one-on-one or group situations, or over the telephone.
- Knowledge of category management and merchandising practices and principles.
Skills
- Business experience
- Merchandising experience
- Computer skills
- Database management
- Category management knowledge
- Merchandising practices knowledge
Location
- 243 Consumers Road, Toronto, Ontario, M2J 4W8
Work Type
- Full time
- Temporary with Benefits (Fixed Term)
Experience Level
- 1-3 years
Education Level
- Post-secondary education with courses in business, merchandising or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $52,000.00 - $71,500.00 per year
Benefits
- Purchase discount program
- Competitive pay
- Online learning through Academy
- Benefits (for Fixed Term)
About the Company
- At Shoppers Drug Mart, we’re innovating health and wellness in Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.