Associate Merchant, Joe Fresh - Co-op Student

Founded in 2006, Joe Fresh is a leading source for modern style and accessible design, offering comprehensive lifestyle collections for men, women and children. Joe Fresh delivers quality and compelling value in categories spanning in apparel, accessories, and footwear. Joe Fresh collections are polished and sophisticated, with a focus on essential designs that appeal to a broad range of style-savvy consumers. With more than 350 Joe Fresh departments from coast to coast, the Joe fresh network is more than a great place to shop, it’s a great place to work. We’re committed to building our talented team who champion collaboration, kindness, and inclusivity. We are looking for innovative, hardworking, and collaborative team members for our Joe Fresh team. Join our team in our goal of helping Canadians Live Life Well®.

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.

Job Description – Co-Op: Associate Merchant

Winter 2027 Work Term

Term Length: 4 months

Term Start: January 6, 2027

Term End: April 16, 2027

The pay range for the co-op student role will reflect factors such as the candidate's experience, academic level, and the specific skillset required for the role.

Loblaw has adopted the following hybrid working model (a combination of working between the office and remotely). Colleagues can work remotely up to 1 day a week, while spending the other 4 days in the office (to be determined by each business unit).

What you’ll do:

• Work collaboratively with various colleagues in merchandising, operations, finance, supply chain, e-commerce, marketing and other divisions to achieve category objectives.
• Build positive relationships with category vendors and external partners.

• Assists in achieving sales, profit and inventory targets with a basic understanding of financial metrics
• Responsible for all aspects involving item/article creation
• Works to ensure all purchase order deadlines are met and executes PO updates as required
• Creates and maintains all weekly and seasonal sales reports that help drive assortment planning and completes any requested ad hoc reporting
• Executes weekly actions for markdowns, promotional downloads, PO tracking, etc.
• Ensures correct pricing is uploaded into systems and resolves any pricing/scanning issues at store level
• Validates all marketing assets prior to effective dates for flyers, in-store signage, and campaigns
• Assists with sample management

What You'll Need:

• A curious and ambitious mentality.
• Experience in retail sales, or merchandising.
• Post-secondary education or equivalent experience.
• Ability influence without authority and collaborate efficiently with many diverse teams.
• Experience using data and analytics to derive insights.
• Financial, business and retail knowledge.
• Skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Teams and comfortable working with various software platforms.

How You’ll Succeed:
At Joe Fresh, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections.

If that sounds like you, and you are open-minded, responsive to change and up to the challenges provided in a fast-paced retail environment, apply today.

Joe Fresh recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.

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