At Canadian Tire, we are committed to providing students with a supportive and collaborative environment that fosters knowledge sharing and offers key experiences to help them develop their capabilities through projects and objectives. We believe in setting specific and measurable goals that align with our business objectives to support learning and help students achieve their full potential. Our culture emphasizes learning from others, continuous improvement, agility, growth, and innovation, and we are invested in building a talented, diverse workforce for the future of Canada and Canadian Tire. Additionally, we are dedicated to building strong relationships with our student employees by engaging with them throughout their education and career pursuits, and creating opportunities for ongoing communication and relationship building.
What You’ll do:
As a Merchandising Student, you will work closely within the Christmas Merchandising division to support the delivery of merchandising activities such as executing assortment, pricing and promotional plans. You will gain a variety of business experiences by working with our Christmas Category Business Management (CBM) team.
- Execute and support various activities including line reviews, planograms, and ad hoc administrative/organizational support
- Support the line review process by overseeing the collection and accuracy of vendor quote forms
- Coordinate product samples for CBM teams and Retail Merchandising Analysts at Retail City
- Acquire product images from vendors for use in flyers, digital, and internal documents
- Gather market information such as consumer, competitor and supplier information
What You bring:
- Currently enrolled in a post-secondary program in Business, Marketing, Retail Management, or a related discipline
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ability to analyze financial and marketing data, think strategically, develop resourceful solutions and turn ideas into action in order to drive sales and profit
- Exceptional communication skills with the confidence and passion to share knowledge
- Creative thinker who is observant to seek new opportunities and perceptive to abstract ideas
- The ability to take a collaborative approach to build strong relationships and have positive team experiences
Hybrid
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.