Senior Manager Category Analytics - Grocery / HABA

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Reports to: Senior Director, Sourcing Analytics

As the Senior Manager, Category Analytics – Grocery / HABA, you will lead high-impact commercial analysis that strengthens sourcing strategies, preparation and value creation across the Grocery and HABA portfolios. You will develop sophisticated sourcing strategies, rigorously assess offers and translate complex economics and tradeoffs into actionable commercial recommendations.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Sourcing Analytics, you will serve as a senior analytical thought partner to Sourcing and Merchandising leaders. You will bring an enterprise-value lens to challenging decisions, combining commercial insight, quantitative rigour and strategic judgement to help teams identify opportunities, evaluate trade-offs and negotiate from a stronger fact base.

Core Responsibilities:

Supplier Plays & Negotiation Strategy

• Drive analytics to inform development of data-driven strategies for priority sourcing initiatives, integrating category context, supplier economics, historical performance, and commercial objectives.
• Structure ambiguous challenges into clear hypotheses, analytical workplans, decision options and recommended negotiation approaches.
• Partner with category stakeholders to develop scenarios, walk-away considerations and supporting narratives for key sourcing discussions.

Offer Assessment & Commercial Economics

• Independently assess cost and funding offers, terms, investments and other commercial components, quantifying financial implications and trade-offs.
• Build robust models to compare proposals against internal baselines, relevant benchmarks and alternative scenarios; identify assumptions, sensitivities and risks.
• Translate offer analysis into concise recommendations that support timely, fact-based decisions and negotiation responses.

Opportunity Identification & Value Delivery

• Identify incremental commercial value opportunities through supplier, category, spend and performance analytics.
• Develop opportunity sizing and tracking approaches with category teams and Finance, as appropriate, to connect analytical recommendations to realized outcomes.
• Challenge proposals and existing commercial structures to surface overlooked opportunities while balancing strategic supplier relationships and broader business considerations.

Senior Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior Sourcing and Merchandising leaders on priority supplier strategies and negotiation decisions.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment on commercial objectives, evaluation assumptions and enterprise trade-offs.
• Present persuasive, executive-ready stories that connect complex analyses to clear actions and financial outcomes.

Analytics Methods, Innovation & Mentorship

• Establish repeatable frameworks, analytical tools and quality standards across Grocery / HABA
• Apply advanced analytics, automation and emerging AI capabilities where they improve speed, quality and consistency of commercial decisions.
• Coach colleagues and share best practices across the Analytics function without assuming formal line-management responsibility.

Key Skills and Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in commercial analytics, sourcing, procurement, merchandising, CPG/retail or consulting; experience in CoS/HABA is an asset.
• Demonstrated success building sourcing strategies, evaluating complex commercial offers and supporting high-value sourcing events.
• Strong understanding of supplier commercial terms, category economics and the levers that drive enterprise value.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Engineering or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience considered.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex quantitative findings into clear commercial recommendations and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong commercial judgment, structured problem-solving and comfort navigating ambiguity, competing priorities and sensitive supplier information.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capabilities; experience with business intelligence, analytics or automation tools is an asset.
• Proven ability to independently lead high-impact workstreams, build effective relationships and improve analytical methodologies.

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.

Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :
$100,000.00 - $132,000.00 / 100.000,00$ - 132.000,00$ (per year / par an)
A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for a newly created position. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste nouvellement créé. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.

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