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Title: Co-op, Strategic Pharmaceutical Partnerships

Term Length: 8 Months

Term Start: January 8, 2025

Term End: August 22, 2025 

As of October 15, 2024 Loblaw has adopted the following Hybrid working model (a combination of working between the office and remotely). Colleagues will continue working remotely up to 1 day a week, while spending the other 4 days in the office.

Shoppers Drug Mart is looking to hire a 8-month Co-op (January 8th to August 22nd, 2025) within our Pharmaceutical Partnerships department. Reporting directly to the Senior Manager, Strategic Pharmaceutical Partnerships, you will assist with the creation of strategic healthcare partnerships between Loblaw and external partners. You will also assist with the management of existing strategic healthcare partnerships. This role is highly cross-functional and requires collaboration with many internal teams and external partner organizations (primarily pharmaceutical and medical device manufactures).  

This is an excellent opportunity for candidates interested in a career in business strategy, including fields such as management consulting, business development & partnerships, and corporate strategy. It is also a great opportunity to learn about commercial strategy roles in the pharmaceutical, medical device, digital health, and retail pharmacy industries. You will develop foundational skills that are critical for career growth, such as developing presentations for senior leaders, using frameworks to develop business strategy, managing financials and contract terms, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Our team prioritizes professional development. You will receive ample mentorship, coaching, and feedback to help you grow professionally.

What You’ll Do:

Learn our business and industry:

• Meet with internal teams to understand their business objectives, especially the Pharmacy Services, Digital Health, and Specialty Pharmacy teams
• Review the annual plans of relevant internal teams to understand their strategy and priority metrics (key performance indicators)
• Stay up to date on industry trends by reading relevant news articles and sharing those learnings with our team

Create new strategic healthcare partnerships:

• Create a process for tracking the status of the partnership conversations
• Provide weekly updates to internal stakeholders regarding the status of partnership conversations
• Help identify opportunities to form partnerships that drive mutual value for our organization, our partner organization, and our customers
• Prepare PowerPoint documents that will be used to facilitate partnership conversations
• Contribute to partnership meetings—this can include presenting, taking notes, and following up on action items
• Assist with the drafting of partnership contracts

Execute existing strategic healthcare partnerships:

• Measure the performance of existing strategic partnerships, highlighting opportunities for improvement
• Manage vendor invoicing and financial reporting, including the creation, submission, and tracking of invoice payments
• Liaising with internal teams to ensure partnerships are on track

What You’ll Need:

• Working towards a post-secondary education (undergraduate or post-graduate diploma) in Business, Science, Engineering, or a related field
• A desire to pursue a career in business strategy
• An interest in one of the following fields: healthcare, digital health, pharmaceutical, medical device, or business development
• Demonstrated openness to learn, receive and provide feedback, and be coached
• Strong analytical ability, problem solving and attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities
• Intermediate understanding of basic business tools, especially Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong work ethic, as demonstrated through academic achievement, extracurriculars, or paid or volunteer work
• Communicates with clarity in one-on-one or group situations
• Respect for diversity, and able to work with diverse personalities and styles
• Able travel to the Shoppers Drug Mart office 4 times per week, located at 243 Consumers Road, North York, ON M2J 4W8

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing 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.