Promotions/Merchandising Manager - New Liskeard

Are you ready to join Canada's most-shopped general merchandise retailer, with over 500 stores from coast to coast?
Canadian Tire offers customers a unique mix of products and services through three specialty categories in which the organization is the market leader - automotive parts, accessories and service; sports and leisure products; and home products.
Canadian Tire offers competitive compensation packages including; benefits, potential for profit sharing, extensive training, and career opportunities from within and across the country at the Canadian Tire Retail stores.

Summary:

As a member of the store's Management team, the Promotions Manager is responsible for managing the weekly in-store promotions and ensuring that the feature area(s) have a good combination of seasonally relevant and 300 deal merchandise, in store specials, impulse items and regular merchandise.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Encourages and maintains a culture that values excellent customer service to all customers through effective training, supervision, coaching and performance management.
• Holds team members accountable for providing an excellent customer experience and recognizes those who excel in it.
• Maintains quality presentation, through daily inspections and ensuring all store audit performance requirements are met in the department.
• Monitors and improves the productivity of the promotions team through strong leadership, motivation and team building.
• Keeps abreast of upcoming promotions and plans resources and timelines accordingly for the maintenance of the feature areas within the store budget.
• Develops and maintains a weekly plan for current and upcoming deals and advises the Management Team of the promotional plans.
• Executes the weekly deals and ensures the promotional items are placed and priced appropriately in the feature areas.
• Advises appropriate personnel of any products that may require special pricing for sell after the deal.
• Communicates any product shortages prior to the deal to Dealer/General Manager/Buyer.
• Identifies location of all promotional products in the feature area for all staff.
• Ensures that all feature areas are topped up, faced and ready for business before the store closes.
• Manages the sell through of 99 and 199 products, in store specials, FMA products and products in the "AS IS" program.
• Manages and maintains deal bunk area (warehouse), ensuring all products are displayed on the retail floor.

Requirements:

• Experience in retail sales, execution and operations.
• Demonstrated supervisory, leadership and/or managerial experience or relevant experience.
• Experience in a Canadian Tire store is considered an asset.
• Results-oriented individual who thrives on achieving challenging goals.
• Ability to serve customers in a professional manner and to inspire their confidence and trust.
• Ability to lead and manage a team to achieve common goals in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to motivate and coach others as well as provide feedback.
• Ability to plan, organize, delegate and follow up on team's activities and projects.
• Ability to find solutions to problems and make decisions.
• Ability to multi-task, adapt and cope with challenging situations.

More about the position:

Potential Career Opportunities

• Next levels: Warehouse Manager, Store Manager and General Manager.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• Standing/walking for 8 hours.
• Lifting and/or carrying of merchandise items, as required, on a regular, frequent and unassisted basis. Merchandise items may vary in weight from "light" to "heavy".

Our offering includes

• Competitive compensation and benefit package
• Potential for Profit Sharing
• Employee Shopping Discounts
• Flexible work hours
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Scholarships
• Reward and Recognition Program
• A culture of performance & accountability
• A supportive and positive team environment

Background Check Requirements:

As a condition of employment, this position may be subject to the successful completion of the following pre-employment conditions:

• Reference Check
• Employment Verifications
• Criminal Background Check
• Credit Check

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