Consultant – Promotions and Pricing

Consultant – Promotions and Pricing
Canadian Tire Corporation – Marks & Sport Chek
4 days onsite. Calgary, AB
Fulltime
 
About Us:    The Mark’s & Sport Chek Pricing & Promotions team plays a pivotal role in shaping how customers perceive value. We blend strategy, analytics, technology, and cross-functional partnership to deliver exciting promotional activations that are customer centric, high value, and performance driven.  
 
Job Summary:

Reporting to the Manager – Promotional Programs, the Consultant – Promo Programs position at Mark’s & Sport Chek focuses on driving performance and operational excellence through strategic promotional activations, including the VIP program.  The position involves collaboration across teams to ensure alignment with business objectives and the adoption of new technologies and processes for efficiency.  responsible for driving performance and operational excellence through the VIP and other high-impact promotional activations. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent communication skills, technical acumen, and an understanding of promotional strategies.  The consultant will work closely with the Manager of Promotional Programs to deliver on key promotional programs, including engaging with strategic external & internal partners. Will also foster and lead a culture of change and adoption of new technology/system-based tools and establishment of new processes for greater efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Promotional Program Planning:
   • Support multi-year promo program strategy development from end-to-end.
   • Where applicable, provide input and support into annual planning processes for Western banner Promotions.
   • Engage with stakeholders to develop strategic insights and translate them into actionable plans.
   • Partner with cross functional teams to ensure alignment on promotional program priorities and goals.
   • Support document builds for strategic planning meetings such as Seasonal Planning, Integrated Planning & other weekly Business Meetings.
   • Support and deliver detailed Event & Quarterly Post-Mortems and present findings to key stakeholders.
   • Provide insights and recommendations for optimizing future promotional activations based on customer & data findings.
2. Promotional Program Integration:
   • Work closely with cross functional teams such as Marketing, Purchasing & Store Operations to deliver on strategic promotional programs.
   • Ensure all promotions are accurately implemented and aligned with business objectives.
   • Deliver on key execution elements for the VIP and other strategic promotional programs such as offer code generation and financial forecasting
   • Manage the end-to-end process of obtaining & communicating product exclusion lists (monthly & event based).
   • Collaborate with compliance teams to ensure accurate legal disclaimers.
   • Support post-event analysis for continuous program optimization.
3. Operational Excellence – Program and Process Optimization:
   • Evaluate existing processes and systems, recommending enhancements to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
   • Continued adoption of AI and new technologies to deliver greater efficiency
   • Collaborate with various teams to break down silos and drive cross-functional synergy toward outcomes.
   • Balance prioritization and trade-off requirements.
4. People & Culture:
   • When required, support AVP of Pricing & Promotions with team engagement programs and practices such as townhalls, cross banner team meetings/events, regular communication.
   • Maintain a curious mindset to understand where the best possible outcome lies.

 
This role plays a critical part in advancing our company’s strategic priorities by cultivating a strong, customer centric culture and driving measurable results through effective collaboration, clear communication and continuous program optimization.

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.