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About the Role

The Category Assistant, Prestige Beauty supports product, financial, and administrative activities to drive the success of the Prestige Beauty business. This role is key to category execution by maintaining accurate product and financial information, coordinating cross-functional initiatives, supporting supplier partnerships, and delivering timely reporting and communications.

Responsibilities

• Enters, maintains, and monitors critical sales and financial data to prepare and analyze sales reports.
• Completes required forms, including article onboarding and vendor profiles, ensuring documentation accuracy.
• Enters, maintains, and monitors critical product listing information for accuracy and updates.
• Prepares and submits worksheets for flyers, merchandising plans, and seasonal spreadsheets with accurate estimates, sales, deal, and retail information.
• Enters, proofs, and edits flyer and seasonal marketing initiatives for accuracy.
• Provides support to the Marketing Call Centre to resolve issues efficiently.
• Prepares and distributes communications to stores regarding category information or updates.
• Monitors and liaises with departments including Digital, Marketing, Planogram, Logistics, Inventory, and Promotions to resolve issues.
• Gathers and compiles data from multiple vendors to prepare worksheets for seasonal and core programs.
• Liaises with vendors to ensure on-time delivery of materials for category sales and growth.
• Works closely with the Digital team to ensure on-time execution and product delivery of new brands and items online.
• Assists the Category Director in preparing for Market meetings, Visual Reviews, and other meetings using business tools and analytics.

Requirements

• Requires an advanced level of initiative and judgment to organize and prioritize tasks, workload, and projects.
• Requires courtesy, tact, and diplomacy in dealing with colleagues.
• Requires an understanding of inter-related work processes to adapt to differing assignments.
• Provides routine information to coordinate assignments and work procedures of other teams.
• Requires professional manner, tact, diplomacy, and discretion when dealing with vendors and colleagues, including senior management.
• Draws on a number of known options to solve problems and develop improvements.
• Adaptable to set and prioritize work with varying exceptions.
• Able to work with diverse personalities and styles.
• Communicates with clarity, verbally and in one-on-one or group situations, or over the telephone.
• Facility with editing and/or proof-reading is required.
• A candidate’s experience and knowledge may be factored into the pay.
• The geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay.

Skills

• Strong work ethic with a passion for detail and accuracy
• Strong time management skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Highly organized
• Able to prioritize effectively
• Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Computer skills to produce effective spreadsheets, reports, documents, and presentations
• Database management
• Knowledge of category management and merchandising practices and principles
• Working knowledge of SAP is considered an asset
• Curiosity about the Beauty industry and key trends

Location

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

Work Type

• Full time
• Regular

Salary/Compensations

• $52,000.00 - $71,500.00 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Equal Opportunity

• Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.