Vp, Merchandise Strategy

1 month ago

Toronto, Canada CT Corporation Full time

**Help us boldly shape retail in Canada**

Canadian Tire Corporation’s (CTC) rich heritage of serving Canadians from coast-to-coast dates back to 1922. Our vision is to become the #1 retail brand in Canada and we are focused on innovating and making important investments in our business, especially when it comes to our people. To reach our goal, we need the best talent to help us evolve and drive change across the business - and boldly help shape Canada’s retail industry. As we strive to be at the forefront of a complex and vastly changing retail industry, it is an exciting time to join the Canadian Tire family of companies.

At Canadian Tire we work flexibly, embracing ‘Hybrid’ whereby individuals utilize a combination of working at a CTC campus and or virtually in service of outcomes. Determined by managers, decisions around work location will be made based on business and team needs and grounded in a desire to support individual well-being and personal needs. Our goal is to empower teams and individuals to make the right decisions for them, and we expect that to look different for everyone.

The Vice President, Merchandise Strategy & Operations is a strategic, collaborative and results driven leader who will act as a key partner to the Merchandising organization and lead the development and delivery of processes, systems, and capabilities that enable CTRs delivery of best-in-class assortments for our customers. The primary focus of this role is to set the strategic direction for our merchandising operations teams, lead the development and delivery of our merchandising capability and data governance roadmap and lead our efforts to increase enterprise/category strategy alignment by adding a customer lens to our merchandising strategy practices. This individual will be experienced in leading the delivery and integration of complex systems and capabilities, have strong strategic and operational acumen, and a track record of building positive and collaborative relationships across a broad base of stakeholders.

**What you’ll do**
- Manage a team of high performing leaders by providing leadership, coaching and development; ensure entire team is focused on driving key activity areas.
- In collaboration and close partnership with your Merchandising, Business Architecture, and IT partners - develop and operationalize strategic plans for the merchandising operations, merchandising strategy, data stewardship & governance, and capability development teams.
- Own the strategic roadmap for development of future state merchandising capabilities and lead the delivery and implementation of all merchandising capability projects within CTR.
- Lead the integration of CTCs enterprise strategy into CTRs category management framework with a focus of adding a customer lens to CTR assortment strategies.
- Work with merchandising peers to ensure strong operational performance across price competitiveness, assortment planning, and line review delivery.
- Champion continuous improvement in all merchandising operational areas including merchandising training programs and curriculum and ensure alignment to and support of future strategic direction of the merchandising organization.
- Collaborate with Data in Action team to ensure ongoing product and vendor data ownership aligns with enterprise data strategy.

**Who you are**

We are looking for high performing individuals who are:

- Agile and innovative individuals, who are able to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold and strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment
- Creative thinkers who take initiative and are capable of building, launching and managing projects/programs that drive results for our customers
- Problem solvers with the ability to analyze and prioritize to meet business objectives
- Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward
- Effective listeners who create a sharing environment to surface ideation and identify the best solutions from an operational and customer perspective.

**What you’ve done**
- 15+ years of experience in the retail or consumer packaged goods industry; with direct category management/merchandising/merchandise operations experience.
- Proven ability to lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders to successful outcomes
- At least 10 years leadership/management experience with a strong propensity for team building, coaching and mentoring
- Proven ability to develop, manage and motivate a top caliber team around a compelling vision
- Highly effective relationship management skills with a track record of developing, socializing and executing strategies collaboratively
- Thorough understanding of the business, growth, change management, systems and process management
- Strong operational acumen and strategic mindset;
- Superb collaboration, joint problem solving and influencing s

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