Associate Owner

Join a locally owned and operated store to help deliver health, beauty and convenience services in your community, and keep the customer at the centre of everything you do.

Why this role is important?

The Associate-Owner is unique to Shoppers Drug Mart and offers the opportunity to be the owner and operator of an exciting and growing business.

Associate Ownership

Be a trusted healthcare professional and a successful franchise owner. The Associate-Owner is unique to Shoppers Drug Mart and offers the opportunity to be the owner and operator of an exciting and growing business. Our Associate-Owners have a strong pride of ownership, and a true commitment to patient care and the communities they serve.

The Associate Ownership Experience

Focus on business

Successful Associate-Owners use their business insights to maximize the success and profitability of their business while growing the Shoppers Drug Mart brand.

Focus on people

Associate-Owners motivate and inspire their team to do and be their best. Inspiring and developing a winning team at the store is one of the most exciting and challenging aspects of becoming an Associate-Owner.

Provide high-level patient care

Pharmacy is the core of an Associate-Owners week. Delivering the highest level of patient care is critical to establish trusting relationships with patients.

Lead in the community

Associate-Owners are ambassadors for the Shoppers Drug Mart stores. With a variety of programs Owners give back and show they care about the health and well-being of their community.

Franchise support

Each Associate-Owner is supported by their in-store management team - backed by a large team of operational resources that are available to assist you in all aspects of the business. Your most frequent contact will likely be with your District Manager and your Pharmacy Operations Specialist, both of whom are dedicated to helping your business success and career development.

Additionally, there are many other specialized resources to support you, such as those who advise you regarding human resources/employee relations issues, recruitment, store systems, loss prevention, retail accounting, and beyond.

Do you have what it takes?

Our Associate-Owners are driven by a dream to build a secure future - practicing pharmacy the way they have always wanted. To be an Associate-Owner, you must be a pharmacist, legally licensed to practice in your chosen Canadian province or territory.

Associate-Owners are appointed by Shoppers Drug Mart based upon their past performance and experience, an extensive interview process, a review of appropriate references, and upon their successful participation in the Shoppers Drug Mart Leadership Excellence and Development Program (LEAD).

LEAD Foundations is a customized leadership training program to assist in identifying and developing new or prospective Associates, Front Store Managers and Beauty Managers. This program will help new or future Associates, Front Store Managers and Beauty Managers maintain a competitive advantage in today's fast paced and ever changing environment.

Why work in a Shoppers Drug Mart store?

Each store has an Associate-Owner, so you will work for a local business owner while having the support of a national brand. Benefit from a purchase discount program, flexible and varied schedules, competitive pay and online learning through Academy.

Take ownership of your work and find more ways to care about your patients, co-workers, customers and community.

Associate Owners in the Shoppers Drug Mart network recognize Canada's diversity as an opportunity to better serve their communities, and strive to reflect the nation’s evolving diversity in the products they sell, the people they hire, and the culture they create in their stores. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants and colleagues with disabilities.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Hiring Range / Échelle Salariale à L’embauche

$50,000.00 - $75,000.00 / 50.000,00$ - 75.000,00$ (per hour / de l’heure)

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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