Vp, Store Planning & Design

Referred applicants should not apply directly to this role.

All referred applicants must first be submitted through Workday by a current Loblaw Colleague.

Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections is valued – as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country's largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well®.

At Loblaw Companies Limited, we succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new job, this is where you belong.

Role Mandate:

Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President, Loblaw Real Estate, and serving as a key member of the LRE Leadership Team, the Vice President, Store Planning and Design plays a meaningful role in the lifecycle of our real estate projects, between the Real Estate and the construction teams. Leading the design and store planning functions is an important step to ensure our capital projects serve to bring many of our business strategies to life in our stores for our customers. This role supports all of the grocery food banners, Shoppers Drug Mart, PC Bank, PC Mobile Shop and Joe Fresh.

Responsibilities:

• Ancillary businesses: Work closely with key collaborators from Joe Fresh, PC Bank, and Mobile Shop on their space design or kiosks for their space within the store.
• Play a major role in ensuring efficient, responsible capital spending as it relates to all major capital projects. This is done by ensuring strong store planning, working with the business and our external vendors to ensure that projects are done in a timely manner, without error, and detailed well. This will result in responsible and accurate capital spending.
• Lead the design and store planning team, ensuring they are working with internal and external collaborators to efficiently develop and deliver on all projects.
• Collaborate on a regular basis with internal customers and members of the Loblaw Real Estate team to help complete business strategies, while bringing expertise in the areas of design and store layout.
• Lead and collaborate with external designers, consultants, and architects to ensure all designs and store layouts meet and conform to business requirements and are reflective of the Loblaw brand.
• Merchandising Layout: Partner with the merchandising and operations teams to confirm program and planogram placement in the store, whether in new store, renovations, or rollouts.
• Renovations: work with the business to reset tired assets to the new banner model, including store and fixture layout and decor package.
• Develop and implement fixture layouts, designs and models for grocery and pharmacy businesses.
• Strong team leadership, ensuring the team has the skills and resources necessary to do their work. Ensuring to develop a strong team culture and individual development plans for growth.
• Support the business in building standard store model sizes and layouts.
• Participate in all store pilots related to design, decor, layout.
• New stores: Collaborate with the Real Estate team to ensure successful handoff of projects between the teams to ensure a smooth transition for the team to partner with the business to layout the banner model, the store layout including fixtures and merch plans as well as the final decor package.
• Actively remain current on trends within the retail industry, design, what our competitors or other leading retailers are doing, and new innovations in areas such as fixturing, store layout or concepts.

Role Requirements:

• Creative professional with an outstanding eye for design. Design accreditation or Architectural background would be an asset.
• Recognized experience in negotiation and conflict resolution from a partnership perspective to settle disputes equitably and in a timely manner.
• Project Management experience, running large scale design or store layout projects
• Ten (10) years recent related experience in dynamically more sophisticated and senior management leadership roles in a large multi-site organization with responsibilities for owning the planning and design of retail/Food, Drug or Supply Chain facilities, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Team-oriented leadership with ability to establish credibility at the corporate and business unit level.
• A track record of establishing highly functional relationships with diverse personalities both within and outside the company.
• A strong executive leader who wants to build great relationships with various business leaders and views themselves and their team as a partner to the business.
• Travel will be required
• Excellent communication skills, combined with presentation experience within a senior level management group.
• Highly capable and collaborative leader who can advise, mentor, and encourage a team.

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.