Manager, Planning and Analysis

At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experience, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we’re up for the challenge. From our office in Downtown Toronto, we’ve created leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, and apparel spaces, and we’re only just getting started.

Manager, Planning and Analysis

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Planning and Analysis, the Manager, Planning and Analysis demonstrates a strong analytical skillset and will have responsibility for supporting PC Express Online Grocery’s long-term success by leveraging your knowledge in forecasting, e-commerce, grocery retail, and business analytics.

What you'll do:

• Own the end-to-end Periodic forecasting process – including projection of sales, margins, labour for online grocery business
• Synthesize the projected forecast into a clear and concise presentation for leadership discussion
• Leverage experience/modelling skills to improve the existing forecasting models and process.
• Direct long-term strategy, resource allocation, and growth by being a core contributor to the annual financial budget
• Advance the business analytics capability for online grocery by exploring new tools and methods
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to highlight areas of opportunities and risks for the online grocery business
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and understand customer needs and the competitive landscape to develop actionable insights for our business and our leaders

Who you are:

• Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment
• You can take responsibility for an initiative, working with minimal direction; self-starter even when assignments are vague or undefined
• You have demonstrated ability to quickly adapt; maintain focus and a high degree of accuracy while working with complex data
• You can easily build relationships and have been part of large, cross functional teams that are working to solve complex problems
• You have effective communication and presentation skills, and can tell a compelling story to an audience of any level
• You have demonstrated creativity in finding novel solutions/designing innovative methods, systems, and processes

What you have done:

• You have at least 3-5 years of hands-on experience in a highly analytical role
• Post-secondary education in business administration, analytics, or data science, or related area
• You possess excellent data analytical skills and have experience with analytical tools such as SQL, MS Excel, Power-BI, Python
• Experience in working with forecasting / demand planning functions preferred but not mandatory
• Experience in generating actionable insights from data and creation of dashboards
• Experience with Cloud data warehouse technology (e.g., AWS/GCP)