Sr Manager, Merchandising Promotions - 12 month contract

at  Shoppers Drug Mart Pharmaprix

Referred applicants must not apply directly to this role. All referred applicants must use their unique referral link generated when they are referred by an existing colleague.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Lead quarterly and annual promotional allocation planning – including weekly space allocation and Legacy CPMS events set-up and transmissions. Perform regular audits to ensure Promotional plan is updated and maintained accurately.
• Responsible for all store transmissions, including approving and managing event cancellations, promo change forms (pricing changes/ product placement, CFO, MD, NSV, product Loyalty points…) and store communications.
• Develops flyer plan and page allocation schedule and distribution to ensure timelines are established, monitor the status, and ensure timely completion.
• Lead weekly flyer meetings to determine flyer status, plan future layouts based on sales, meet compliance and margin targets. Ensure flyers are completely accurately and on time.
• Determine flyer financial page budgets based on layout changes, events, and financial expectations.
• Own the relationship with Category Management, ARI/ Business Optimization Analytics and the Promotions Team in maintaining accurate promotional planning and flyer forecast approvals.
• Enterprise relationships and tactical planning with Loyalty, Marketing; including Category Management (Prestige, OTC, HBA/ Mass, Food, Electronics). Provide Category Management insight feed-back to merch planning and work with teams to ensure promotional investment satisfies need to achieve budgeted results.
• Collaborate with marketing team to plan and integrate tier one events from start to finish into the flyer. This includes working cross –functionally with multiple front-store divisions to ensure sales and margin targets are achieved, the right product selection is featured and is aligned with the overall campaign theme.
• Identifies promotional conflicts, including overlapping events, overlapping promotions and loyalty events and manages promotions limitations. System expert knowledge required to manage such overlaps.
• Identifies and prioritizes system enhancements and process improvements. Provides functional requirements and assist with UAT testing to ensure all projects are rolled out to all stores effectively.
• Approves and manages event cancellations, promo change forms (PCFs) including pricing changes, product substitutions, regional product changes and store order cancelations.
• Manage Promotions Team of Senior Coordinators – oversee their workloads and provides staff supervision to ensure that work is done accurately, efficiently and complies with policies, procedures, and standards as well as best working practices.
• Responsible for delivering error-free flyer, including in-store promotional strategy & set up; lead “On-Call” support team on weekends for flyer correction & operational support (MCC/ Customer Care Centre)

TYPE OF ROLE:

Temporary with Benefits (Fixed Term)
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. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.
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