What you’ll do:
The Senior Consultant, Enterprise Assortment Planning will act as a strategic bridge between corporate strategy, banner planning, and retail merchandising. You will help shape how our categories come to life for our customers, balancing retail viability with financial performance.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Strategic Insights & Recommendations: Translating customer shopping habits and business performance data into actionable merchandising strategies. Partnering closely with banner planning functions and merchant teams to optimize product assortments.
- Assortment Framework Support: Helping refresh and evolve our category management and assortment frameworks to meet changing retail trends.
- Category Guardrails: Collaborating with the Customer Strategy team to define and validate category guardrails (such as product breadth, depth, and pricing/assortment ranges) grounded in deep consumer insights.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Aligning merchandising, inventory, and enterprise goals to ensure our product choices truly address customer needs while protecting category profitability.
- Monthly Performance Preparation: Assisting in preparing high-level visual and analytical materials for monthly performance reviews led by the CCO.
What you bring:
To thrive in this role, we are looking for a retail-minded strategist with a solid foundation in retail business principles, financial math, and a passion for retail merchandising.
- Post-secondary university education, preferably in Business, Retail Management, Commerce, or Supply Chain Management.
- 3+ years of experience in an assortment planning, retail buying, commercial strategy, or retail consulting role.
- A strong understanding of Retail Math and financial key performance indicators (e.g., margins, inventory turnover, sell-through).
- Demonstrated success managing cross-functional projects within a retail or consumer-goods environment.
- Direct experience or a deep understanding of enterprise assortment planning principles within a retail organization is considered ideal.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills, with a proven track record of presenting recommendations to leadership.
- Retail Acumen: A natural intuition for retail trends, customer behavior, and what makes a product assortment successful on the shelf or online.
- Analytical & Insightful Mindset: Strong problem-solving abilities to spot sales trends, assortment gaps, and commercial risks using performance data.
- Strategic Creativity: The ability to navigate ambiguity and help us make bold, customer-focused moves in a rapidly evolving retail landscape.
- Strong Communication: An exceptional ability to translate complex data and category performance into clear, compelling stories for cross-functional stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Collaborative Spirit: A relationship-builder who easily partners with merchants, planners, and operational teams to move initiatives forward.
- Detail-Oriented & Proactive: Highly organized, ensuring accuracy in reporting while anticipating business needs before issues arise.
We’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:
Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs
Other perks to support your well-being
Career growth opportunities and product discounts
Broadband Salary Range: $64,000 – $106,000 CAD.
Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role.
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This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.
We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.
About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.
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.
Skills Required
- University degree
- Degree in Data Analytics, Finance, Strategy, or business-related discipline
- Minimum 3+ years experience in data analysis, insights delivery, or consulting
- Experience in retail industry and assortment planning
- Proficient in SQL and Tableau (or comparable BI tools)
- Advanced Excel expertise including formulas, pivot tables, VBA, and macros
- Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills; understanding of retail math and KPIs
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional projects and influence outcomes
- Excellent written communication, interpersonal, and project management skills
What We Do
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to be there for Canadians from coast-to-coast. We are a group of companies that includes a retail segment, a financial services division and CT REIT. Our retail business is led by Canadian Tire, which was founded in 1922 and provides Canadians with products for life in Canada across its Living, Playing, Fixing, Automotive and Seasonal & Gardening categories. Party City, PartSource and Gas+ are key parts of the Canadian Tire network. Our retail segment also includes Mark's, a leading source for casual and industrial wear, Pro Hockey Life, a hockey speciality store catering to elite athletes, and SportChek, Hockey Experts, Sports Experts, and Atmosphere, which offer the best active wear brands. Our 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets are supported and strengthened by our Financial Services division and the tens of thousands of people employed across the country by our Company, local Dealers, franchisees and petroleum retailers. In addition, CTC owns and operates Helly Hansen, a leading technical outdoor brand based in Oslo, Norway. CTC is an integral part of the communities in which we operate and our legacy of community support, through national and local programs, is initiated and executed by our Corporation, Dealers, franchisees, store operators and employees. Since 2005, our Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities has been helping kids overcome financial and accessibility barriers to sport and recreation in an effort to provide inclusive play for all kids of all abilities. For more information, visit corp.canadiantire.ca.
