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Sr. Analyst – Promotional Planning, Market Division

 

Role Mandate

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Promotional Planning, the Senior Analyst will join the Promotion Planning team to support flyer and strategy planning, flyer review, promotional execution, and process optimization across the Market Division.

This role combines promotional planning expertise with strong technical and analytical capabilities. The Senior Analyst will support the achievement of promotional investment targets by using data, automation, and business insights to guide banner-specific flyer programs, PC Optimum initiatives, vendor partner advertising, and core promotional activity across print and digital channels.

The successful candidate will play a key role in improving the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of promotional planning processes. This includes identifying opportunities for automation, streamlining workflows, enhancing reporting capabilities, improving data quality, and supporting business change initiatives that simplify how promotional programs are planned, reviewed, and executed.

As part of a cross-functional team, the Senior Analyst will leverage data science concepts, analytics tools, and structured problem-solving to identify business opportunities and integrate solutions into core merchandising and promotional planning processes. Areas of focus may include promotional performance analysis, price elasticity and optimization, assortment optimization, customer segmentation, loyalty offer targeting, portfolio management, flyer space optimization, and process automation.

The ideal candidate is technically curious, analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working with large data sets, business systems, and cross-functional stakeholders. They are passionate about using data-driven insights, automation, and continuous improvement to support strategic decision-making and deliver measurable business results.

 

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you will support the planning, execution, analysis, and continuous improvement of promotional flyer programs across the division. Key responsibilities include:

• Support the creation, maintenance, and governance of the national flyer calendar, ensuring alignment to timelines, business priorities, promotional budgets, and planning guardrails.
• Manage promotional planning timelines, workflows, and processes to ensure consistency, compliance, accuracy, and operational efficiency.
• Oversee flyer development and flyer review while ensuring adherence to divisional brand standards, advertising compliance, and data accuracy requirements.
• Lead promotional initiatives from planning through execution, using structured tracking, reporting, and issue resolution to ensure deliverables are completed on time.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to build, validate, and execute promotional flyer programs across print and digital channels.
• Assist in the development of short- and long-term promotional strategies by analyzing promotional performance, flyer space utilization, customer behavior, and business trends.
• Optimize print and digital flyer space across core promotional programs, PC Optimum offers, vendor partner advertising, and banner-specific initiatives.
• Use data and analytics to identify promotional opportunities, measure performance, and support recommendations that drive sales, profit, customer engagement, and market share.
• Identify manual, repetitive, or inefficient processes and recommend opportunities for automation, standardization, and workflow improvement.
• Develop, enhance, or support reporting tools, dashboards, trackers, and automated processes that improve visibility, decision-making, and execution accuracy.
• Support business change initiatives by documenting current-state processes, identifying pain points, defining future-state solutions, and helping teams adopt improved ways of working.
• Collaborate with merchandising, marketing, loyalty, operations, vendor partners, and technical teams to ensure promotional programs are data-informed, executable, and aligned to business objectives.
• Apply data science and analytical concepts to support areas such as price elasticity, assortment optimization, customer segmentation, loyalty targeting, portfolio management, and promotional effectiveness.

 

What You’ll Need

• Post secondary undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to convert data into insights, insights into recommendations, and recommendations into actionable business plans.
•  Programming experience with SQL and Python, R, or another programming language used for data analysis, automation, or reporting.
• Knowledge of data science and AI concepts, including machine learning, prescriptive analytics, predictive modelling, optimization, or related analytical methods.
• Experience working with large data sets, dashboards, reporting tools, trackers, or business planning systems.
• Ability to identify process improvement opportunities and support efficiencies through automation, workflow optimization, and business change.
• Demonstrated project management skills, with the ability to manage timelines, coordinate multiple priorities, and deliver accurate work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong attention to detail, with a focus on data accuracy, compliance, and execution quality.
• Outstanding team player with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional business and technical teams.
• Self-starter with strong time management skills, curiosity, and a continuous improvement mindset.

What Loblaw Offers You

We offer flexibility and balance, and an environment that sets you up for success no matter where your workspace is located.

Here, you will find a phenomenal team to help you achieve your goals as you help us achieve ours! Work in our fast-paced, exciting Technology environment, helping our stores, colleagues and customers every day.

Loblaw colleagues also enjoy:

• Work Perks Program
• On-site GoodLife Fitness, Basketball & Volleyball courts, Ice Rink, Groceries delivered to work via PC Express, Dry Cleaning services (1PCC Office)
• Tuition Reimbursement & Online Learning
• Pension & Benefits
• Paid Vacation

If you’re up to the challenge, then we would love to hear from you. Apply today, and get the process started.

At Loblaw, we respect the environment, source products with integrity and make a positive difference in the community. 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.

Loblaw 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. At Loblaw, we celebrate diversity where differences are valued and supported. Commitment to being an equal opportunity employer is a priority to us, and we encourage people from all backgrounds and identities to apply to our jobs.

Accommodation in the recruitment, assessment, and hiring process is available upon request for applicants with disabilities.

We thank all candidates for their interest but please note, those candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the position will be contacted.

Regards,

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.

Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :

$60,000.00 - $82,500.00 / 60.000,00$ - 82.500,00$ (per year / par an)

A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste vacant existant. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.

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