Manager, Strategic Innovation - 12mth Contract

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Venez faire votre différence dans les communautés à travers le Canada, où l'authenticité, la confiance et l'établissement de liens sont valorisés - alors que nous façonnons l'avenir du commerce de détail au Canada, ensemble. Notre position unique en tant que l'un des plus grands employeurs du pays, celle associée à notre engagement à avoir un impact positif sur la vie de tous les Canadiens, viens offrir à nos collègues une gamme d'opportunités et d'expériences pour aider les Canadiens à Vivre Bien, Vivre Pleinement.

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Manager, Strategic Innovation
(Contract- 12 Months)

Reports to: Director - Insights and Strategic Innovation

Location: 1 President’s Choice Circle, Brampton

Are you at the top of your game? Bring your expertise and knowledge to Canada’s largest retailer. We are looking for an innovative, passionate, and collaborative team member for Loblaw Company’s Control Brands Insights and Strategic Innovation team.

This is an exciting time to join our team and help bring to market the ‘next and never-been-done’ in product innovation. That’s what our customers expect when they shop in our stores. It’s been true since the introduction of The Decadent Chocolate Chip Cookie, and it’s still true today, with our vast assortment of best-in-class private label products.

If you are looking to join a company that offers opportunity, excellent leadership, ongoing training and makes a big impact on the community - this is the role you’ve been waiting for!

Reporting directly to the Director for Insights and Strategic Innovation, you will help define the strategic direction of some of Canada’s most iconic CPG brands - President’s Choice, No Name, Life, and more! In this role, you will leverage consumer and business insights to identify growth opportunities and collaborate with internal stakeholders to bring them to life. This unique role works with product managers, product developers, the culinary team, external research vendors, internal packaging design teams, and marketing to deliver best-in-class products across all grocery categories. This position requires an entrepreneurial builder mindset, a deep passion for food, a strong ability to collaborate and influence, and exceptional organizational and planning skills.

A successful candidate in this role will be able to develop a comprehensive plan to identify, articulate, and solve for emerging opportunities - all grounded in deep consumer insight. This includes obtaining internal alignment and holding all stakeholders accountable to timelines and deliverables.

What You’ll Do

Support in the development of compelling strategic recommendations

• Leverage internal data sources (Innovation need states, sales data, consumer research, strategic plans and business reviews) and external data (Market data, syndicated research) to find opportunities for new innovation.
• Interpret and analyze customer data to generate insights that drive our innovation leadership
• Create business propositions to pitch identified opportunities to leadership leveraging data story telling.

Create mechanisms for educating colleagues and empowering them to activate these insights through strategic initiatives and 3-yr plans.

• Organize product inspiration and ideation seasons in the test kitchen with the support of our in-house chefs
• Work with research firms and CPG vendors to host insight-sharing sessions
• Create quarterly reports to share top trends and insights in collaboration with the culinary team.

Support the creation and facilitation of workshops that fuse bold, creative, and lateral thinking with consumer insight, category data, trends, and internal experts.

• Facilitate incubator sessions with cross-functional teams to develop innovation proposals into tactical plans
• Organize brainstorming sessions and tactical workshops

Support in execution of strategic initiatives.

• Provide guidance in various aspects of strategy execution such as design briefs
• Obtain senior leadership buy-in with alignment meetings
• Coordinate with test kitchen to support strategy sell-through with curated menu’s and strategic food tasting sessions
• Own follow-ups and ensuring stakeholders deliver on needed requests
• Lead in development of product ideation themes for marketing campaigns like the Insider’s Program.

Lead the Home Evaluation Program

• Manage all aspects of the Home Evaluation process. Coordinate with product developers to build a pipeline of products to be tested. Recruit colleagues to participate, analyze, interpret, and share results.

Support in execution of primary consumer research

• Conduct research independently and with research vendor partners and/or DIY platforms to answer business questions.
• Manage internal/external stakeholders, create timelines, and ensure objectives are clearly established.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor`s degree (or higher) with proven experience in product innovation, strategy, marketing or similar field - preferably in the food, beverage or consumer packaged goods industries.
• Knowledge and relevant experience in the areas of creativity and lateral thinking, and design-thinking or emergent strategy principles and ways of working
• Ability to work with a cross functional team and balance competing priorities for various stakeholders
• Strong project management skills
• Strong strategic, analytical skill and ability to drive actionable results using data and insights
• Knowledge of customer-centric tools and tactics
• Strong English Writing and Verbal
• Excellent presentation and visual story telling skills using tools like PowerPoint
• Microsoft office Suite of Tool
• Be passionate about food
• An entrepreneurial mindset with an ability to adapt and deliver in evolving and often ambiguous circumstances
• Curious, open minded, and not afraid to question status quo
• Primary research skills such as crafting questionnaires and working with 3rd party research vendors.
• Bonus: Strong knowledge of CPG product development life cycle, working closely with product development, Regulatory & Legal, Supply Chain, Vendors, and Brand Marketing
• Bonus: Knowledge of Nielsen Discovery

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel working within this job title.

What You’d Be Happy to Know

Loblaw is an equal opportunity employer, and we consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, disability status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Accommodation is available upon request for applicants and colleagues with disabilities.

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.

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

If this opportunity interests you, apply today!

Notre engagement envers la durabilité et l'impact social est un élément essentiel de notre façon de faire des affaires. Nous concentrons notre attention sur les domaines où nous pouvons avoir le plus grand impact. Notre approche de la durabilité et de l'impact social repose sur trois piliers - l'environnement, l'approvisionnement et la communauté. Nous recherchons constamment des moyens de faire preuve de leadership dans ces domaines importants. Nos valeurs ÊTRE - Engagement, Tient à coeur, Respect et Excellence - guident toutes nos prises de décision et prennent vie à travers notre culture bleue. Nous offrons à nos collègues des carrières progressives, une formation complète, de la flexibilité ainsi que les nombreux avantages compétitifs - voici quelques-unes des nombreuses raisons pour lesquelles nous sommes classés au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs du Canada, au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs pour la diversité au Canada, au palmarès des employeurs les plus verts au Canada et au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs pour les jeunes au Canada.

Si vous ne savez pas si votre expérience correspond à toutes les exigences ci-dessus, nous vous encourageons à postuler quand même. Nous recherchons des perspectives de candidatures variées, qui incluent des expériences diverses que nous pouvons ajouter à notre équipe.

Nous nous concentrons depuis longtemps sur la diversité, l'équité et l'inclusion, car nous savons que cela fera de notre entreprise un meilleur lieu de travail et de magasinage. Nous nous engageons à créer des environnements accessibles pour nos collègues, candidats et clients. Les demandes d'aménagement en raison d'un handicap (qui peut être visible ou pas, temporaire ou permanent) peuvent être faites à n'importe quel stade de la demande et de l'emploi. Nous encourageons les candidats à faire connaître leurs besoins en matière d'accommodation afin que nous puissions offrir des opportunités équitables.

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