Senior Consultant, Enterprise Assortment Planning

What you’ll do:

Reporting to the Manager, Enterprise Assortment Planning, the Senior Analyst, Enterprise Assortment Planning will support all banners at CTC by providing strategic insights and recommendations to drive assortment strategy. This role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on category strategies and guardrails.

The Senior Consultant, Enterprise Assortment Planning will be responsible for:

• Strategic Insights & Recommendations: Providing strategic insights and recommendations based on customer and business performance data. Working with the banner planning functions and merchants.
• Framework Support: Assisting in refreshing the role and intent category management framework.
• Category Guardrails: Supporting the definition and validation of category guardrails (dimension, direction & ranges) based on research & insights from the Customer Strategy team.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with each functional team to quantify and refine category guardrails; ensuring cross-functional expertise is considered to address customer needs, validate assumptions, and align enterprise goals.
• Monthly Meeting Preparation: Assisting in preparing materials and insights for monthly performance meetings led by the CCO.

What you bring:

You are a critical thinker with strong business, financial, and analytical acumen, comfortable operating in complex and ambiguous environments. Detail-oriented and process-minded, you bring a collaborative approach and strong influencing skills that help build relationships across stakeholder groups. You communicate insights clearly and effectively, translating analysis into actionable recommendations. Ideally, you have experience in enterprise assortment planning within a retail environment and a solid understanding of the business levers that drive retail success.

• University Degree; preference in Data Analytics, Finance, Strategy, or business-related discipline
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in data analysis, insights delivery, or consulting (retail industry and assortment planning experience are strong assets)
• Proficient in SQL and Tableau (or comparable tools/languages) with advanced Excel expertise including formulas, pivot tables, databases, VBA, and macros
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills with a solid understanding of retail math and key performance metrics.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional projects and influence outcomes through collaboration and data-driven insights
• Excellent written communication, interpersonal, and project management skills

We’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer: 

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs

• Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs

• Other perks to support your well-being 

• Career growth opportunities and product discounts  

Broadband Salary Range: $64,000 – $106,000 CAD.
Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role.

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This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging 

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations  

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.