Vice President, Retail, Th, Canada

About Restaurant Brands International

Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with more than $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and ~30,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – BURGER KING®, TIM HORTONS®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees, and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

Vice President, Retail

The Vice President, Retail will leverage their deep understanding of non-food general merchandise retailing and how to appropriately apply it to new channels (such as, in this case, Quick Service Restaurants) to drive the development and implementation of a multi-year Tim Hortons retail growth strategy. They will be responsible for the P&L for the Tim Hortons non-food retail business, building out a product assortment in-restaurant and via our app / e-commerce platform, in a manner that leverages the power of our franchised business model and positively contributes to the strength of the Tim Hortons brand. Leading a cross-functional team, the VP, Retail will execute product development and partnership initiatives, analyze pricing, margins, industry trends, and manage inventory forecasts to enable and surpass company and franchisee revenue and profit targets across all customers and channels. The goal is to make our Retail offering an incremental traffic driver, and something that Tims is widely known for in addition to its great food and beverages.

Key Accountabilities

• Build strong relationships with key vendors, partners, and cross-functional stakeholders,
• Provide strategic vision and leadership to the Merchandising, Planning, and Allocations teams; challenge the team to test, iterate, shift, and elevate the core products as well as potential adjacent categories
• Analyze trends to identify new product and category opportunities
• Develop, communicate, and maintain a performance framework that will ensure their team is effectively tracking towards established KPIs
• Establishing partnerships and collaborations with other brands with potential integration into the broader distribution channels
• Collaborate with Marketing, Customer Insights, Data & Analytics, Operations to prioritize product lifecycles (launches and discontinuations)
• Develop an e-commerce platform for both Tim’s and non-Tim’s products
• Bring a thorough understanding of financials, gross margin, and sales analysis and the ability to leverage data to build differentiated product assortments and strategies

Qualifications

• Must possess strong organizational and time management skills, with strong attention to detail, comfortable managing multiple priorities and projects with limited resources
• 7+ years senior leadership experience managing retail, including business unit P&L accountability
• Extensive knowledge of building and executing large-scale strategic initiatives, partnerships, teams, and/or new business units in domestic and international markets
• Highly organized with an ability to predict and maximize trends
• Experience in Merchandising roles, preferably including e-Commerce
• 10+ years of experience across the Retail landscape
• Ability to collaborate effectively with all levels of management, build partnerships, and direct teams
• Demonstrated analytical and project management skills required
• Ability to develop effective processes and procedure that support business growth

Restaurant Brands International and all of its affiliated companies (collectively, RBI) are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers that do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, provincial or federal laws, rules, or regulations. RBI's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request.

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