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Canadian Tire Associate Manager, Customer Promotional Strategy, Transformation and Integration in Toronto, Ontario
What you’ll do
Acting as a centralized hub for planning across CTC, the Promotional Strategy, Transformation & Integration team aims to develop collaboration and strategic leadership. The team is responsible for helping to drive sales growth for CTC by working collaboratively with a broad range of stakeholders (internal, external, cross-functional,) to build and execute promotional marketing strategies that address both business and customer needs.
As a member of this team, the Associate Manager, Customer Promotional Strategy, Transformation and Integration is responsible for consulting on the strategic development and operational execution of best-in-class promotional plans across CTC. This role works cross-functionally across marketing to develop annual roadmaps, lead in-season management and assessment of business and financial health and transform CTC customer promotional capabilities and processes.
Champion a customer-focused culture with business needs in mind
Lead the strategic development of annual customer promotional plans, ensuring operational integration, and conducting post-mortem evaluations
Project Manage the evolution of the customer promotions team (both Short term & Long term goals)
Design, develop, implement, and manage change deliverables that will enable impacted users to successfully transition from their current state to a future state
Investigate, discover, and partner with cross functional teams to educate the Customer Promotions team on new data/insights
Engineer new processes to deliver promotional omni-channel integration across CTC and business units
Help drive new capabilities and best-in-class promotional marketing activities
Facilitate constructive conversation for idea generation and collaborative brainstorming on innovative marketing concepts
Evaluate promotional program performance to mitigate risk, identify growth opportunities and shape future promotional plans
Build and socialize strategy documents and action plans with Senior Leadership team to gain alignment
Build presentation decks for various levels of the organization, ensuring the content tells a story
Act in a consulting capacity for other business units by recommending solutions to promotional opportunities
What you bring
4+ years of experience with a focus on strategic planning, project management, process development, and consulting
University Degree – Bachelor of Commerce, Marketing, or equivalent
Strong problem-solving skills with ability to formulate option development and recommendations
Ability to work independently, being self sufficient to take the initiative on leading work
Strong communication skills and comfortable conversing with senior leadership
Exceptional interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work with other team members
Collaborative style with superior influencing skills
Excellent organizational abilities
Excellent presentation skills both in crafting decks and verbally presenting, emphasizing building the right narrative for the right audience
Comfortable leading meetings with 80+ participants
Effective time management skills, managing multiple projects with various deadlines efficiently
Proficient in building processes and roadmaps
Skillful at crafting stories that integrate corporate initiatives to gain buy-in
Sense of curiosity and outside of the box thinking to transform and optimize processes
Actively involved in integration efforts, possessing a keen sense of what is happening in other teams
Flexibility to come into the Toronto office multiple times a week
Hybrid
At Canadian Tire we value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.
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About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
Accommodations
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.