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Join us at Loblaw Companies Limited as a Category Director in our Super Market Division where we bring innovative products and programs to our stores. Reporting to the Sr. Category Director, your responsibilities will include leading every aspect of the Hair Care, MCM HABA, and T&T category, including vision, strategy, financial performance, competitive benchmarking, and program execution. You will be accountable for leading a team of Merchants and Associate Merchants. Are you datadriven and customercentric with a drive for food? If you would like to belong to a complementary team of critical business leaders, apply today! What You'll Do: - Work with various colleagues in merchandising, operations, control brands, supply chain, loyalty, ecommerce, marketing, media, and other divisions. - Build positive relationships with category vendors and external partners. - Use data and analytics to build short and longterm strategic plans; identify critical merchandising priorities, risks, and opportunities. - Own the financial forecasting, modelling and performance for the category with toptobottom ownership of profit and loss (P&L) outcomes, expansive of sales, margins, shrink and EBIT. - Be solely accountable for delivering category budget goals and achieving nonfinancial departmental goals as assigned, with weekly, periodic, and quarterly reporting obligations. - Build and maintain a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and handle performance outcomes including market share growth and development, shelf pricing, assortment and promotional strategy efficiency, and global merchandising bestpractices. - Coordinate with vendors to achieve bestinmarket product costing and program investments. - Work with your team to implement assortment management (including optimisation analysis, new product and costing evaluation, planogram design and instore merchandising strategies). - Lead and develop your team in program management (including promotional product selection and forecasting, financial modelling with P&L impact analysis, pricing decisions, flyer and digital content decisions) and vendor relationship management. - Collaborate with privatelabel Product Managers and Product Developers to identify and reach all strategic and financial goals for the privatelabel portfolio within the category. What You'll Need: - Postsecondary education or equivalent experience. Postgraduate education and/or authoritatively accredited designation(s) are an asset. - Shown experience of 5 years in retail merchandising, strategy, marketing, business development and/or business management specifically, with responsibilities over P&L required. - A selfmotivated leader with a highreaching approach and a passion for category management. - Sophisticated knowledge of financial forecasting, modelling and analytics required. - Analytical approach to decision making using data to derive business insights that lead to practical strategies and favourable financial outcomes. - Ability to engage, collaborate with and influence complementary teams. - Ability to think critically, innovate and overcome obstacles with a sense of importance. - Ability to coach, mentor and lead a team that supports and accelerates talentcultivation within the Super Market Division. We have a longstanding focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities. Please Note: Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process. Hiring Range / chelle salariale lembauche : $120,000.00 - $154,000.00 per year. A candidates experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. #J-18808-Ljbffr