Merchandising

Promotions Specialist

Back to Search

Location:

243 Consumers Road, Toronto, Ontario, M2J 4W8

At Shoppers Drug Mart, we’re innovating health and wellness in Canada. From prescriptions to walk-in clinics, and a beloved loyalty program, we’re caring and supporting our customers in new ways every day.
With more than 1,300 locally owned and operated stores from coast to coast, the Shoppers Drug Mart network is more than a great place to shop, it’s a great place to work.  We’re committed to building our talented team who champion collaboration, kindness and inclusivity. Join our team, and help recognize a healthy future for your career and for all Canadians.

Why this role is important?

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.

Why work at Shoppers Drug Mart?

Acting as consultants, supporting internal customers and the Associate-Owners, you will get experience unique to the retail industry while working for an award-winning national brand.   Benefit from a purchase discount program, competitive pay and online learning through Academy.

Take ownership of your work and find more ways to care about your work, co-workers, customers and community.

How You’ll Succeed:

At Shoppers Drug Mart Inc., we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture.  We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections. 

If that sounds like you, and you are open-minded, responsive to change and up to the challenges provided in a fast-paced retail environment, apply today. 

Employment Type:

Full time

Type of Role:

Regular

Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. 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. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing.  Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Please Note: If you have Employee Self Service (ESS) on Workday, apply to this job via the Workday application.

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.

#EN

#SS #MERCH #ON