Position Summary...The Senior Manager, Merchandising Planning leads the strategy, planning, and execution of merchandising programs, driving sales, profit, and inventory objectives while ensuring integration with eCommerce and other cross-functional teams.
What you'll do...The Senior Manager, Merchandise Planning is responsible for driving sales, gross profit and inventory productivity across their portfolio. This role leads the development of long-range and annual financial plans, partnering with Merchandising and cross-functional teams to shape business strategy based on market trends, consumer insights, competitive dynamics and internal business priorities. The Senior Manager translates these strategies into actionable financial plans and initiatives that support sustainable growth and profitability.
The Senior Manager owns the ongoing financial forecast, ensuring a clear and accurate view of business performance and proactively identifying risks, opportunities and gaps to plan. Through strong analytical capabilities and commercial judgment, this role develops and drives actions to close financial gaps, maximize opportunities and optimize inventory investments. This includes overseeing sales, gross profit, inventory, receipts and markdown plans, and making informed trade-offs to deliver financial objectives.
As a key strategic and financial partner to Merchandising, the Senior Manager provides insights and recommendations to inform assortment, pricing, promotional, inventory and go-to-market strategies. The role leverages internal performance data, external market intelligence and consumer trends to challenge assumptions, identify growth opportunities and influence business decisions.
Strong cross-functional partnership with Merchandising, Replenishment, Finance, Pricing and other stakeholders is essential to align priorities and execute strategies effectively.
The Senior Manager leads and develops a high-performing Planning team, establishing clear accountability, strengthening analytical and commercial capabilities, and fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and ownership. This includes championing AI, automation and evolving ways of working to simplify processes, improve decision-making and enable teams to focus on the activities that deliver the greatest business impact.
The role is accountable for communicating financial performance, key risks and opportunities, and recommended actions to senior leadership, ensuring transparency, alignment and disciplined execution against business objectives. The Senior Manager also upholds company values, policies and standards of ethics and integrity.
The pay range for this position is $109,400.00 - $150,480.00. Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.
L'échelle salariale pour ce poste est de 109,400.00 à 150,480.00. 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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