
Senior Manager, Shopper Marketing
- Mississauga, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Shopper/Omni-Marketing: Partner with Brand, eCommerce, and Customer teams to translate business and brand objectives into high impact mid/lower-funnel shopper activations, leveraging shopper insights and trends to unlock growth and profitability -- including account-specific and national shopper programs, partnerships, customer digital programs.
- POS & Merchandising: Partner with Retail Sales team for ongoing optimization of in-store POS for every day and tentpole merchandising materials; oversee retail team website ordering portal and manage POS inventories; lead post-analyses of tentpole and customer programs (assessing consumption, point-of-sale, and Marketing metrics), socializing with key stakeholders.
- Operational Support: Lead key operational vendor relationships with an eye to ensuring continual improvement in execution and process efficiencies; manage annual Shopper budget, prioritizing and optimizing spend across categories, brands, and customers to maximize investment impact; oversee related day-to-day financial administration.
- Leadership and Coaching: Responsible for overseeing one direct report inclusive of performance management and formal and informal talent development.
- Post Secondary education in Business, Marketing, or a related field
- Strong knowledge of CPG food-relevant shopper/retail environments
- In-depth experience with shopper marketing and omni-channel planning; Brand management or related agency-side experience is an asset
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills. In addition, a relentless attention to detail is imperative.
- Strong analytical skills -- familiarity with Nielsen consumption and key Marketing metrics is an asset
- Previous financial experience including P&L understanding and budget management
- Ability to handle ambiguity, multi-task, and work effectively under pressure, sometimes managing conflicting priorities from multiple sources at any given time