eCommerce Site Merchandiser

Job Responsibility:

What you'll do

The eCommerce Merchandising Specialist will be responsible for the online maintenance and merchandising to drive online sales for our eCommerce sites (SportChek.ca and Atmosphere.ca). A strong focus for this role will be creating a best-in-class customer experience through data-driven insights and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The successful candidate will also be responsible for mapping, sourcing, governing, and optimizing digital content for efficient distribution across channels. A customer-first mindset and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced team is key.

Some key responsibilities include:

• Sourcing, processing, and managing content across banner websites and other digital media and channels.
• Merchandising the websites products to maximize sales & improve conversion rate. Including organization, categorization, colour selection, cross-sells/recommendations, bundles & taxonomy.
• Building, managing & maintaining SEO optimized landing pages for promotional offers, brand campaigns & search results.
• Partner with cross-functional team members to develop key concepts, marketing stories and site optimization efforts to provide the best-in-class customer experience.
• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders in Purchasing, IT and Operations to create alignment and procedures/processes, while maintaining a customer first mindset.
• Leverage customer insights, analytics, research and reporting functions to support decision making, analyzing results and provide new opportunities for growth.

What you bring

• Post-Secondary Education in Marketing, Business Administration, Communications or related field.
• Minimum 2 years work experience in eCommerce, merchandising, web retail, marketing, content management, visual communications, or related field.
• Background in retail, or product related areas.
• Experience in web marketing, and/or data administration.
• Proficiency with Content Management Systems, HTML and other web technologies.
• Firm understanding of interactive marketing and online media.
• Experience with software such as Microsoft Office, specifically Microsoft Excel.
• Creativity and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment.
• Action oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve our customers and business.
• Outcome focused, critical thinkers with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across our entire business.
• Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward.
• Inclusive leaders who build and develop teams that effectively anticipate and respond to disruption, while consistently delivering strong performance

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.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.