Manager, Retail Planning, Th, Canada

**About Restaurant Brands International**:
Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with more than $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 28,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands - TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI working towards its goal of improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

**Company Description**

Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with more than $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 28,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands - TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

**Role Overview**

As the Manager, Merchandise Planning, Tim Hortons, you are accountable for forecasting activities to proactively optimizing the balance of inventory across our network in line with target customer service levels, levels of forecast accuracy and safety stock levels, for all Tim Hortons retail SKUs. You will maintain, optimize, and implement forecast models to achieve increased sales and inventory efficiency, while incorporating business intelligence and forecast information collected from sales and availability trends, replenishment analytics, and other sources.

**Essential Functions**:

- Performs all financial forecasting within categories. Understands implications of trend to each metric, and is able to guide teammates on actions to improve results.
- Assess item-level performance, analyze and challenge assumptions regarding performance expectations.
- Provide inbound forecasts to the logistics team to avoid fluctuations and ensure an accurate strategy is in place to deliver results
- Partner with in teams to strategize, develop, and manage financial plans that support key brand strategies and initiatives
- Support development of seasonal strategy on Key Initiatives & Newness
- Uses appropriate tools to determine impact of price to unit velocity and communicates financial requirements. Communicates performance and influences any required change in strategy.
- Communicate the financial impact of planned assortment changes.
- Business Management Decision Support: Assess health of the business and seek root-cause of opportunities. Generate data-driven recommendations to improve customer and financial outcomes. Socialize findings and ideas to cross-functional team in order to steer decisions that impact the P&L.
- Budgeting: Develops and makes recommendations on category and subcategory financial targets. Notate and convey business intelligence pertaining to future category performance. Builds budget information into the financial system for fiscal category budgets.
- Financial Updates and Reporting: Own monthly financial perspective for categories, highlighting business drivers, opportunities, key action plans, and timelines. Provides seasonal and event analysis and reporting for key timeframes.

**Skills and Qualification**:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Retail Management, Economics or related field
- 3-5 years' experience in retail, financial planning, category management, buying, replenishment, operations, or related field.
- Additional skills/knowledge: Retail experience, Commodity knowledge, Analytical skills. Customer centered, Judgement, Execution & results, Planning & Improvement, Influence & Strong Communication
- Understanding of statistical analysis and common pitfalls of data analysis
- Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
- Willingness to learn and adapt
- Restaurant Brands International and all of its affiliated companies (collectively, RBI) are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers that do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, provincial or federal laws, rules, or regulations. RBI's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request._
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