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About the Role

Reporting to the Sr. Director, Store Development, this role manages a team, provides direction, and oversees planogram development, store communication, and Operations at the Lab Store in Scarborough.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Space Planning function, overseeing Space Planning Specialists, setting priorities and standards, managing performance, and ensuring quality and timeliness of output.
• Own the planogram operating calendar, managing the schedule from development through launch, including timelines, inventory readiness, walkthroughs, releases, delists/exit strategies, issue resolution, and compliance.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Category VPs, Visual Merchandising, Store Operations, inventory/supply-chain stakeholders, Store Development, consultants, and executives.
• Drive continuous improvement through new initiatives, strategic opportunities, standards, and innovative solutions.
• Connect merchandising strategy to store execution, translating assortment, space, inventory, and merchandising decisions into actionable plans for stores.

Requirements

• Requires an advanced level of initiative and judgment to organize and prioritize tasks, workload, and projects.
• Requires specialized interpersonal skills to resolve situations with colleagues involving conflict, stress, or uncertainty.
• Provides solutions using imaginative approaches requiring constructive thinking and innovation.
• Adaptable to set and prioritize work with varying exceptions and diverse personalities/styles.
• Decisions are typically broad-based, involving multiple resources outside direct authority.
• Communicates with clarity verbally and in one-on-one or group situations, or over the telephone.
• Communicates well in writing by composing clear documents, with facility in editing and/or proof-reading.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in merchandising, business, marketing, or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in a retail environment.
• Minimum 2 years of project management experience.

Skills

• Understanding of Category Management principles (planograms).
• Strong understanding of Store Operations (layout planning and implementation).
• Ability to drive performance and execution within all areas of the business.
• Business acumen – demonstrated understanding of quality standards relative to project management and planning.
• Superior practical knowledge of Space Planning, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Directs a varied unit or function by reinforcing its direction and developing its effectiveness.
• Advanced understanding of merchandising, category management principles (planograms), and store operations (layout planning and implementation).
• Knowledge of space optimization or space management software.
• Business acumen - advanced understanding of quality standards relative to merchandising and store planning concepts.

Location

• 243 Consumers Road, Toronto, Ontario, M2J 4W8

Work Type

• Full time
• Regular

Experience Level

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in merchandising, business, marketing or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years experience working in a retail environment.
• Minimum 2 years project management.

Education Level

• Post secondary education equivalent to a University Degree in Business, Retail Management, Merchandising or related discipline.

Salary/Compensations

• $120,000.00 - $154,000.00 per year

Benefits

• Purchase discount program
• Competitive pay
• Online learning through Academy

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.
• Take ownership of your work and find more ways to care about your work, co-workers, customers and community.
• At Shoppers Drug Mart Inc., we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture.
• We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections.
• If that sounds like you, and you are open-minded, responsive to change and up to the challenges provided in a fast-paced retail environment, apply today.

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.