Job Description:
Our client believes that excellent people truly make a difference and together we aim for a legacy of accomplishment second to none. We've made a career of searching for the best, the brightest and the most aggressive professionals - at every level and in every specialty. Powered by a 'Can Do' attitude, our client's employees move with purpose, lead with integrity and are passionate about quality and growth.

Our client has an exciting opportunity in their Sales group for a Category Advisor in support of their Loblaw's Account (Food Focus).

Primary Focus

• Leverages superior category management skills to provide category analysis, insights and solutions to maximize performance impact for Loblaw’s Companies Nationally. 
• Interacts regularly with senior regional and national representatives to ensure buy in and execution of programs.
• Leads best practice development in the areas of category management and customer partnerships that are leveraged to upgrade broader organization capabilities.

JOB CONTEXT

• The incumbent manages all aspects of Loblaw’s Food Focus initiative and is responsible to develop and implement annual category development plans for Loblaw’s regional operating regions/banners.
• Initiates and supports analytical and insight mining leading to opportunity identification and solution generation. 
• Integrates a variety of data sources (consumer and customer) as well as best practice approaches globally to create winning strategies.
• Extensively collaborates with a broad range of customer contacts (category manager to VP level) in addition to internal customer team to ensure alignment and superior execution. 
• Creates, enables execution, and provides post execution analysis of new initiatives aligned with LCL sales and profitability objectives. 
• Creates and leverages industry best practices to build overall selling organization best practices.

Specific Accountabilities