Loblaw Companies Limited
### Why is this role important? The Assistant Product Manager to the Strategic Initiatives team works in a fast-paced environment to support Loblaw Brands multi-year strategic initiatives and special project sprints that enable our beloved brands, including President’s Choice and No Name. The successful candidate will liaise with our supplier base ensuring their contributions to the project are complete and on time. They are also responsible for leading communications and meetings with many internal stakeholders to support project milestones, provide progress updates and meet final target launch dates. ### What You’ll Do: – Monitor the development and execution process with Vendors/PM/PD/QAS/RA/PT to ensure on-time completion of specialty projects – Develop project timelines and assign tasks to team members within SAP system – Support the PM in chairing project kick-off meetings with the vendor. Develop vendor-specific timelines and communicate all of the information a vendor will require in order to support the on-time delivery of a project, as well as understand LCL critical path milestones – Responsible for the listing of all approved projects in the internal Loblaw Brands systems – Responsible for creating master label copy direction, as well as artwork circulation to studio teams and vendors – Support the PM in leading design kick-off meetings to ensure team alignment to the project strategy by gathering information and samples – Lead monthly reviews with individual product teams to update on progress within existing portfolios – Manage the critical path file for all active projects and report on project status – Chair weekly team meetings with the team (PM/PD/QA/RA/PT) to review project status, escalate risks, solution challenges impacting project timelines – Act as a liaison between the project team and the in-house editorial, design, and production team – Assist the PM, when required, in preparing for Quarterly Imitative updates using Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel – Create and analyze reports from MicroStrategy, PowerBI, ABI, and SAP as required ### What You’ll Need: – Post-secondary education – Well-developed project management skills are essential, experience in project management is an asset – Highly organized, able to prioritize effectively and work independently in a fast-paced environment – Advanced excel skills is an asset – An ability to tell a story through data, and an eye for reporting – Strong work ethic with a passion for detail and accuracy – Strong time management skills and problem-solving skills – Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written – A natural curiosity to learn new things, and a mind for simplifying complex ideas – An outstanding ability to manage ambiguity and for bringing teams together to deliver big ideas – Outstanding decision-making skills required to achieve organizational objectives with an understanding and consideration to the impact on other work groups – Diplomacy, constructive thinking and innovative approach to drive solutions – Basic knowledge of retail merchandising or product manufacturing processes
