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Position Summary:    

Reporting directly to the Senior Manager, Merchandising Promotions the incumbent creates and transmits promotional events and communications for stores.  The incumbent oversees the coordination of various order generations and exception lists, run reports and maintain spreadsheets and promotional calendars. The incumbent will provide support to, and liaise with, stores, internal departments and regional teams regarding promotional initiatives, issues, and opportunities.      

Primary Responsibilities:   

• Creates event flyers and other promotional materials to provide clear and accurate direction at the store level
• Responds to emails and message enquiries from other departments to resolve issues or concerns in a prompt and effective manner
• Creates and coordinates promotional events and liaises with Category Management to ensure promotional event transmissions are accurate and concise
• Liaises with Category Management and Marketing Teams for Tier One Marketing Flyer events. Responds / resolves any issues / discrepancies throughout the planning process
• Writes store communications to ensure all stores have accurate promotional event information and provides promotional direction
• Provides weekly On-Call Coverage for any Flyer issues that arise on Saturday’s to stores/rest of the business 
• Work closely with Junior Promotions Coordinator to assign daily tasks / help manage workload
• Approves and manages event cancelations, promo change forms (PCFs) including pricing changes, product substitutions, regional product changes and store order cancelations. Liaises with Supply Chain, Inventory, Category Management and Promotions Teams on respective changes
• Provides weekly support to the Sr. Manager and Sr. Director in preparing/ updating financials and layout information for the weekly Ad Meetings
• Support Category Management, Business Analytics, and the Promotions Team in maintaining / approving promotions in our Flyer Forecast Tool and Flyer Layout Tool
• Support Manager, Promo Analytics with day to day P&L reporting, data gathering and cleaning
• Provide regular and ad-hoc reporting and data analysis with understanding of retail business processes and products
• Create the master event package for vendors and the entire business
• Maintains and updates new Capital Plan stores on all MOG inclusion lists and flyer event transmissions based on store criteria
• Coordinates auto shipment order generations (MOGs) to ensure adequate product for promotions and identify any concerns to be resolved prior to promotional events
• Maintains and updates databases to protect data integrity and ensure accurate and current information is available as required
• Maintains spreadsheets and calendars and distributes to various departments to ensure accurate updates are exchanged including Flyer event codes, MOG schedules, Page Allocation updates
• Maintains order exception lists and runs various reports to develop future promotional strategies and provide relevant data as required
• Support all data extraction, management and integration initiatives
• Assist with coaching new hires in Category Management / Promotions on various internal systems
• Participate in special projects as required  

Skills, Knowledge & Education:

• Excellent Communication skill
• In-depth Knowledge of the MS Office suite, particularly MS Excel is required.
• Knowledge in SQL, Excel / Access VBA is preferred
• This position requires a demonstrated level of initiative and judgment in order to organize and prioritize tasks, workload and projects. Courtesy, tact and diplomacy are required in dealing with colleagues in every day working relationships. .
• Draws on a number of known options to solve problems and to develop improvements
• Adaptable to set and prioritize work with varying exceptions.  Able to work with diverse personalities and styles.

Education & Job Knowledge: 

Post-secondary courses in business, marketing, merchandising or equivalent experience.

Experience:

Greater than two years, but less than or equal to three years business, marketing or equivalent experience.

Certificates, Licenses or Registration:

No specific certificates, licenses or registrations are required for this position.

Dimensions:

Direct Reports: 0   

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.