Pricing Specialist

What you’ll do

Our Merchandising team is responsible for connecting our quality products and services with our customers. The team uses planning frameworks and tools to provide recommendations that will ensure financial results and provide decisions on key inputs such as point of sales forecasts.

This is a highly visible role across the organization that will challenge your ability to work with ambiguity, manage large amounts of data, turn insights into action, and make strong connections with business leaders. You will be working independently with category business managers, building relationships and interpreting category, brand, and vendor strategies and their impact on price. You will have the opportunity to develop and implement new or existing frameworks that improve our customer’s price perception while maximizing our categories profitability. In this role, you’ll work across a team of high performing individuals looking to make an impact at Canadian Tire.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of category objectives and financial plans by flawlessly executing accurate and timely cost and price changes.
• Manage all landed costs amid all changes to landed cost components and ensure dealer split is maintained at all times.
• Ensure all cost changes meet rigorous quality standards and analysis is carried out in order to present Category Business Managers with impacts of cost changes and potential issues with information provided by vendor.
• Analyze impacts of price and cost changes and make price recommendations based on margin requirements and the competition.
• Execute flyer price checks to review accuracy of regular and promo pricing and discount stories for the weekly flyer.
• Monitor cost and price changes to ensure pre-determined margin and competitive index requirements are being met.

What you bring

• 1-3 years professional work experience in a relevant role.
• Solid communication skills and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of MS Access, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint.
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced business environment.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with colleagues at various levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to provide insights using data.
• High proficiency in Word and Excel – capacity to understand vlookups, pivot tables, etc.
• Highly organized and detail oriented, able to tackle multiple projects with varying scope.
• Agile and innovative individuals, who can manage in an environment of change and ambiguity.
• Merchandising and/or retail experience is an asset.

Work Model

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 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.

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.