Referred applicants should not apply directly to this role.

All referred applicants must first be submitted through Workday by a current Loblaw Colleague.

Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections is valued – as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country's largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well®.

At Loblaw Companies Limited, we succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new job, this is where you belong. 

Role Mandate: The Manager, Marketing & Brands Loyalty Projects is an exciting and important role on the Marketing & Brands Enablement Planning Team that supports strategic, enterprise and transformation tactical loyalty projects. These projects transition to become programs that help propel the organization forward and provide strong value to our customers. As the Manager, reporting to the Senior Manager, Marketing and Brands Projects, you will play an integral role in planning, managing, and ensuring successful execution of multiple tactical loyalty projects. You will collaborate with stakeholder groups across Marketing & Brands, as well as enterprise wide to ensure alignment with the same common goal to deliver on-time and on-budget.

The successful candidate will bring bold, fresh thinking combined with marketing, brands, loyalty, project management, and retail industry expertise to help enable transformation in the organization. They will be passionate about retail, customer experience and bringing value to Canadians.

This contract role will be based out of the Brampton office at 1 President’s Choice Circle, Brampton and is hybrid with four days in office, 1 day remote.

What you’ll do:

• Project Management: Work with Loblaw Companies Limited (LCL) partners across Marketing, Brands, Divisions, Store Operations, Supply Chain, Merchandising and external partners to successfully manage strategic tactical loyalty projects. This includes but is not limited to, gathering key stakeholders to manage recurring meetings, status updates, timelines, RAID logs, reporting, program insights and ensuring that key deliverables are on track for delivery and against budget. Support presentations and status updates to members across senior leadership and the working teams.

• Collaboration: Builds and maintains strong collaborative partnerships with relevant teams across the organization and externally. Ensure clear and concise communication by leveraging a natural ability to facilitate connections across stakeholders. In addition, lead meetings with stakeholders on an on-going basis. Support and drive effective change to the benefit of the projects and programs via effective organizational skills and strong cross functional collaboration.

• Leadership: Positively influence project team performance through collaborative candor, adaptability and leading by example. Demonstrates a drive to achieve project success while fully invested in the success of stakeholders, programs, and the enterprise.

• Outcomes & KPIs: Manage tactical loyalty projects efficiently and ensure that all deliverables and milestones are on time.  Mitigate risk and issues through pro-active identification, solutioning and strong communications.

What you’ll need:

• 5+ years of retail industry marketing experience​ within or in partnership with brand strategy, product strategy, campaign execution, promotions, creative/agency management or in store marketing.
• 5+ years practical project management experience, within marketing or retail, with multiple scope, high profile, enterprise wide, full project ownership, and accountability within a matrix organization.
• 5+ years’ proven experience with project management and marketing operations tools – Workfront, Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Smartsheet, Wrike, Asana etc. Understanding of all Microsoft 365 products required.

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.