About the Role
The Senior Manager, Loyalty Partnerships will be responsible for the day-to-day ownership, execution, and growth of the EQ Bank partnership within the PC Optimum ecosystem. This role will play a critical part in supporting the transition of the PC Financial Mastercard portfolio to EQB, ensuring strong partner management, high-quality execution, and continued delivery of value for members, the partner, and the PC Optimum program.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary day-to-day lead for the EQB partnership within PC Optimum, building trusted relationships with partner stakeholders and internal teams.
- Act as the main access point into PC Optimum for EQB, helping the partner navigate Loyalty, Marketing, Digital, Analytics, Finance, Technology, Customer Care, Operations, Legal, and other enterprise teams.
- Establish and maintain the operating cadence for the loyalty working team, including regular touchpoints, clear agendas, issue tracking, decision follow-ups, and cross-functional alignment.
- Manage ongoing partner needs, risks, dependencies, and issues, escalating when needed and ensuring teams remain focused on shared outcomes.
- Partner with internal teams and EQB to design targeted, data-driven loyalty campaigns that support acquisition, engagement, retention, spend, and other partnership objectives.
- Drive integration of EQB into PC Optimum-owned and Loblaw channels, including app, email, digital, in-store, and other relevant member touchpoints.
- Track and report on partnership KPIs, with support from Analytics and Insights. Translate performance results into clear insights, recommendations, and action plans for the partnership.
- Support the development of business cases for new initiatives, including opportunity sizing, expected member impact, investment requirements, financial implications, and operational considerations.
- Monitor the competitive landscape across loyalty, credit cards, fintech, banking, and retail partnerships, and recommend enhancements that improve member value and partnership performance.
- Support senior leadership through analysis, recommendations, executive-ready materials, and executional follow-through on strategic partnership priorities.
Requirements
- You have 6-10 years of experience in financial services, credit cards, banking, fintech, partnerships, loyalty, marketing, or a related field.
- You have experience managing strategic partnerships and know how to balance partner objectives, customer/member needs, and enterprise priorities.
- You are a strong relationship builder who can work effectively with external partners and senior internal stakeholders across multiple functions.
- You are commercially minded and comfortable working with business cases, KPIs, performance reporting, financial outcomes, and growth opportunities.
- You are highly organized and can create structure in ambiguous environments.
- You are comfortable working across multi-functional teams to get work done.
- You can translate complex information into clear insights, recommendations, and executive-ready communication.
- You are proactive, solutions-oriented, and comfortable managing risks, issues, dependencies, and competing priorities.
- Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check.
Skills
- Experience with credit card portfolios, retail loyalty, coalition loyalty, partner-funded offers, digital engagement, or customer lifecycle marketing is considered an asset.
Location
- ON
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 6-10 years
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000.00 - $132,000.00 per year
Benefits
- Progressive careers
- Comprehensive training
- Flexibility
- Competitive benefits
About the Company
- Loblaw Companies Limited is one of Canada's largest employers, committed to positively impacting the lives of all Canadians and shaping the future of Canadian retail.
- Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture.
- We are committed to Sustainability and Social Impact, focusing on Environment, Sourcing, and Community.
- We are recognized as one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.
Equal Opportunity
- We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop.
- We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers.
- Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment.
- We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.
