Retail Merchant Category Strategy

Use retail analytics and merchandising expertise as a Merchant with Loblaw Companies Limited’s Hard Discount Division across Canada. Shape customer-focused category decisions through data.

Reporting to the Category Director, this Merchant role supports products and customer programs across 400 grocery retail stores. You will collaborate with merchandising, operations, supply chain, loyalty, e-commerce, marketing, media, and control brands teams. Your work connects promotional planning, financial analysis, vendor relationships, assortment, and private-label innovation.

• Lead promotional programs from selection through performance evaluation
• Build strategic plans using customer and financial data
• Support assortment optimization, planograms, and merchandising strategies
• Research competitive pricing, assortment, and promotional standards
• Evaluate product innovation and private-label program development

• Post-secondary education or equivalent experience
• At least one year of merchant, buyer, retail sales, or merchandising experience
• Analytical approach and data-based decision-making experience
• Financial, business, and retail knowledge
• Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and software platform proficiency

Apply retail analytics, vendor collaboration, and merchandising judgment to advance Loblaw’s customer-focused Hard Discount strategy.