At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experience or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, were up for the challenge. From our office in Downtown Toronto, weve created leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, and apparel spaces, and were only just getting started. Why is this role important? As the Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships, you will influence and execute the strategy for managing Loblaw Digitals existing delivery partners and evaluating potential technology innovations in the market. You will build relationships with external partners and internal stakeholders, becoming a thought leader and key contributor to inform how partners and technology solutions can either accelerate our roadmap and/or add a new capability that enhances the customer experience for the millions of Canadians we serve. Reporting into the Director, Strategic Partnerships, you will bring a passion for understanding and identifying the latest market and technology trends, and a talent for bringing new opportunities to life through crossfunctional collaboration, strategic thinking, and project execution. Responsibilities Manage ongoing relationships with established partners, while tracking the progress, impact, and key learnings from these partnerships Support and lead negotiations with existing and potential partners to maximize the success of a partnership and benefit to Loblaws Work with stakeholders across Loblaw Companies Limited and Loblaw Digital to identify opportunities where value can be created by existing and new partnerships with external companies Stay on top of market and technology trends, build external relationships, and be a key liaison between external companies and Loblaw Digital stakeholders Identify and meet with prospective strategic partners Be a thought partner to the business leaders to help create presentations to communicate the business rationale for a new partnership and/or update the business on the status with an existing partner Help evaluate, drive decisions on, and launch new partnerships from idea to POC, including developing datadriven business cases, detailed financial models, and project plans Contribute to a positive work environment that promotes exemplary service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork Qualifications More than 7 years of work experience in a relevant field with demonstrated crossfunctional project leadership experience Experience negotiating and contracting Strong understanding of the ecommerce industry, marketplaces, and current technology trends Ability to independently lead financial analysis, modeling, storytelling and presentation building; ability to build financial business cases to provide recommendations and highlight financial implications Ability to build and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders Comfort operating in ambiguous and fastpaced environments, and flexing between highlevel strategic thinking and detailoriented timely project management Stellar communication skills, both written and oral, and confidence in presenting ideas with impact to senior leaders Benefits At Loblaw Digital, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections. Were able to keep innovating because our colleagues are passionate about their work and excited about the future of eCommerce. If you have big ideas, undeniable enthusiasm, and thrive in a collaborative, creative, and diverse group, well get along just fine. Looking for a challenge? Good. Love an innovative work environment? Even better. Employment Type: Full time Role: Regular Loblaw Digital recognizes Canadas diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nations 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. Apply today. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships