Position Summary...Responsible for managing and executing end to end feature planning processes, including strategizing, designing, developing, and implementing feature space strategies that align with commercial plans and space allocation.
What you'll do...This role owns end-to-end feature and promotional planning in close partnership with Merchants, leveraging data, analytics, and performance insights to optimize feature allocation, drive business priorities, and enhance customer experience.
The role bridges strategy to execution-translating commercial objectives into actionable feature plans, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment across cross-functional teams.
End-to-End Feature & Activity Planning- Own the full lifecycle of feature and commercial planning (strategy 141414 execution 141414 post-analysis)
- Develop event-specific feature allocation plans that aligned to commercial priorities and activities
- Ensure all feature plans reflect category strategies, corporate merchandising guidelines, and space allocation principles
- Partner with merchants to align on category/item selection, prioritization, and feature placement decisions
Data-Driven Insights & Recommendations- Leverage historical performance and customer insights to drive informative feature planning decisions
- Identify risks and opportunities across events and categories and provide actionable recommendations
- Support business prioritization through analytics-driven storytelling and insights
- Continuously improve planning effectiveness through post-event analysis and learnings
- Utilization of AI tools to drive efficiency and data depth in everyday feature planning and analysis
Commercial Event & Cross-Functional Partnership- Act as a key partner to our Merchants and cross functional teams to influence how commercial events comes to life physically in our stores for our customers
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Marketing, Supply Chain, Store Operations, Space Planning) to ensure seamless execution
- Communicate feature plans and changes clearly to stakeholders to drive alignment and execution excellence
Execution Excellence & Operational Rigor- Manage Monthly SBU lead feature meetings, sharing postmortem insights and identify opportunities in future looking plans
- Collaborative work with Store Operations and Replenishment to ensure feature plans are cascaded for execution excellence
- Own change management processes for feature plans, ensuring quick and precise updates
- Maintain high standards for data quality, governance, and compliance with corporate processes
- Support continuous improvement initiatives, including adoption of new FSS tool and new ways of working
Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree - MBA considered an asset
- 2+ years of experience in a similar cross functional lead analytical roles in roles
- Excellent project management experience
- Exceptionally communication skills - interpreting and storytelling data into business insights
- Experienced with AI application is a must
The pay range for this position is $74,000.00 - $101,750.00. Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.
L'échelle salariale pour ce poste est de 74,000.00 à 101,750.00. La rémunération sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience pertinente.
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Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Age - 16 or older
Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Primary Location...1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada
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