Job ID: R2000600635Job Description:We're looking for a strategic, detail-oriented, and highly motivated Manager, Labour Strategy & Analytics to help drive key initiatives and operational priorities across the Labour Management team. This role blends analytics, strategy, and project leadership to deliver insights, build business cases, and support enterprise-wide initiatives. You'll be responsible for developing executive-level materials, leading cross-functional projects, and translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations that drive both short- and long-term strategy. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives at the intersection of data and strategy, enjoys tackling a wide variety of challenges, and wants to make a meaningful impact on how labour is planned and managed across the business.
What You'll Do- Lead Analytics & Insights: Build and maintain reports, dashboards, and analytical models that assess labour performance and uncover opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Develop Business Cases: Quantify financial and operational impacts, create contribution analyses, and develop decision-ready business cases for senior leadership.
- Support Strategic Initiatives: Lead and contribute to high-impact cross-functional projects, from scoping and planning through to execution and measurement.
- Executive-Level Communication: Create polished presentations and briefing materials that clearly communicate insights, recommendations, and progress to executives.
- Forecasting & Planning Support: Partner with Finance and Operations to contribute to annual budgeting, forecasting, and initiative tracking.
- Enable Decision-Making: Provide fact-based analysis and recommendations that inform enterprise priorities and operational strategies.
- Manage Deliverables: Coordinate outputs and timelines across multiple projects and workstreams to ensure consistency, accuracy, and impact.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance how the team captures, reports, and uses data to drive strategic outcomes.
Who You Are- A project leader who can manage multiple deliverables, balance short-term tasks with long-term goals, and keep stakeholders aligned.
- A strategic thinker with the ability to connect data, insights, and strategy.
- Analytical and detail-oriented, with a desire to understand how things work and how to make them better.
- A clear and confident communicator who can engage both technical and executive audiences and translate complex ideas into clear, actionable messages.
- A trusted team player who thrives on variety, enjoys learning, and embraces ambiguity.
What You Bring- Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Strategy, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 2-3 years of experience in strategy, consulting, operations, business analysis, or project management ideally in a retail or enterprise context.
- Analytical Skills: Advanced Excel skills required; experience with SQL, Power BI, or other analytics/visualization tools is a strong asset.
- Strategic Skills: Proven ability to build business cases, synthesize insights, and develop recommendations for senior leadership.
- Executive Communication: Skilled at preparing clear, compelling presentations and reports for decision-makers.
- Project & Time Management: Strong ability to structure work, prioritize deliverables, and manage timelines across concurrent initiatives.
- Adaptability: Comfortable with change, ambiguity, and shifting business priorities.
Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars - Environment, Sourcing and Community - and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values - Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence - guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits - these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada's Top Employers, Canada's Best Diversity Employers, Canada's Greenest Employers & Canada's Top Employers for Young People. If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.
We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.
Please Note:Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.