• A fantastic opportunity to explore Northern Canada with an established company
• Receive a baseline salary of $43,000 to $60,000 plus numerous generous benefits, including subsidized housing and food allowance!
• Grow within a company that wants to see you succeed!

About the North West Company

With retail locations all over Northern Canada, The North West Company is a leading retailer to underserved rural communities and urban neighbourhood markets in the following regions: Northern Canada, Western Canada, rural Alaska, the South Pacific islands and the Caribbean. Our stores offer a broad range of products and services with an emphasis on food. Our mission is to be a trusted community store that offers local residents the best local shopping choice for everyday household and local lifestyle needs.

North West’s core strengths include: our ability to adapt our product mix to each market we serve; our logistics expertise in moving product to, and operating stores within, remote or difficult-to-reach locations; our knowledge in serving indigenous and lower-income customers; and our ability to apply these strengths to serve customers within complementary niche businesses.

Our core principles are to ensure that we are customer-driven, working with passion, being enterprising, accountable, building trust, and personally balanced. Our goal is for our retail locations to adapt to unique local lifestyles, and culture and selling opportunities better than our competition.

For more information about us, please visit our website at northwest.ca.

About the Opportunity

More than just retail. Come make a difference. We are currently seeking motivated Department Managers to join our grocery teams in retail locations across Northern Canada on a full-time basis. These are on-site opportunities that would require relocation. NWC provides relocation assistance, as well as food and housing allowances.

Some of the locations we may be hiring for are*: 

• Nunavut (Kugluktuk, Goja Haven, Igloolik, etc.)
• Northwest Territories 
• Northern Saskatchewan (Patuanak, Southend, Stony Rapids, etc.)
• Northern Manitoba 
• Northern Ontario (Kasabonika, Bearskin Lake, Sandy Lake, Poplar Hill, etc.)
• Northern Quebec (Inukjuak, Kangirsuk, Salluit, Puvirnituq, Umiujaq, Radisson, etc.)

As a Department Manager, your responsibilities will encompass a variety of tasks, including overseeing the day-to-day activities of your team, managing inventory levels to meet customer demands, and ensuring the department is clean, organized, and well-stocked. You will be responsible for setting and achieving sales targets, analyzing sales data, and implementing strategies to enhance profitability.  

More specifically, your duties and responsibilities will include:

• Providing excellent customer service by creating strong customer relationships 
• Managing the Grocery Department to ensure sales and profits are maximized, while ensuring that everything is stocked and maintained throughout the day and rotated to guarantee freshness
• Developing departmental business plans in order to meet or exceed sales/gross profit goals
• Ensuring daily operations consistently meet the standards outlined in the Best Practices Manual for Retail Basics
• Ensuring operating goals are met by monitoring performance, following merchandising practices, supporting promotions, maintaining operational standards and controls
• Participating as a key member of the store team, providing leadership to the team, and supporting the Store Manager

As an essential part of the team, you will need to be able to work on a flexible schedule, while being excited to serve your customers and your community.

More About You

To qualify, you will need to be a high school graduate and have 2+ years of experience working in a high-volume grocery or retail environment. 

The following skills and experience are also essential:

• Demonstrated skills with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook 
• Strong customer service skills
• Experience working with records of bottom lines and sales results
• Strong knowledge of grocery operating principles
• Proven record of organization and planning skills in a busy environment

As our ideal candidate, you are self-motivated, detail-oriented, adventurous, and able to work flexibly with rapidly changing timelines. You are also physically fit and able to lift up to 50+ pounds, and stand for extended periods. Most importantly, you are excited to experience Northern Canada, and become an integral part of your local community!

About the Benefits

As a valued member of the team, you will be rewarded with a baseline salary of $43,000 to $60,000, along with a wide range of benefits, including:

• Bonuses - % of baseline salary based on targets
• Subsidized housing
• Food allowance
• Subsidized outwear program
• Paid travel expenses 
• 4 weeks vacation to start
• Company ownership program

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, Apply Now!