TOKTW 2019

 

 

1.What is your job title?

Assistant vice president (western region) TJX Canada

1. What is your job description?

Collaboratively develop and implement strategies for the region. Also invests a lot of time into district managers personal development. This position is in charge for supporting the development of the regional vision and strategy, and overseeing the execution of the strategy to successfully achieve the overall business plan developing talent and supporting the TJX Canada’s off price model.

1. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?

Accountable for providing strategic direction and leading District Manager teams of assigned market area to achieve financial plan targets. Develops and implements regional strategies to achieve or enhance financial targets, talent development and customer experience. And the last main thing is District Manager talent development.

What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas?

1. a) training?

Training on how the stores work, leadership experience/training, strategies, development and implementation training.

1. b) education?

University degree or several years leadership experience.

1. c) experience?

Leading people, leading teams, retail experience but not mandatory.

1. d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)?

Driven, outgoing, energetic, leader.

 

1. What are some of the things you like about the job?

The strategic part of the job and she loves working with people. TJX is a great company with a great coulter and she gets to work in a great environment.

 

1. What are some of the things you dislike about this job?

Sometimes she feels like it’s too much travel because its set out of Calgary and that’s were the main office is.

7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?

TJX has expanded a lot in the past several years. While the Off Price Model has proven to be very successful in the changing retail landscape the rate of growth will likely slowdown in the next 5 years. They will need to continuously evaluate how we do business to ensure it is what the consumer is looking for.

What are the hard parts about your job: 

As company continues to grow it gets harder to find people with enough skill and responsibility and be able to grow so they can take on more responsibility’s.

Student Reflections:

Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):

1. a) Because in a way it has to do with fashions witch I’m really interested in.
2. b) I think it’s a job for a leader and I think I’m a leader and you get to work with other people so all the work wouldn’t all be on you.
3. c) I think it offers a bit of everything. You don’t have to sit in an office all day, although sometimes you had to do that not all day. You can also work from home and take calls from home.

Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):

1. a) My mom technically works out of Calgary which means she travels a lot and not just to Calgary but usually Calgary. Which means I don’t get to see every day.
2. b) My mom does a lot of work calls and a lot of the time when we eat dinner or sometimes she can’t do stuff with us because she has a call. So, I think that would be one of the reasons I wouldn’t love it.
3. c) It honestly just seems like a lot of work and I’m sure it would totally be for me and to have to put that much work into something you don’t love would suck.

1. Is this job for you? Why or why not?

I honestly think some parts are for me and some parts aren’t. While I was there we went on a walk through with a district manager and then I sat in a meeting and we went for a lunch. I don’t know if specifically, the part I watched and helped in would exactly be for me because it seemed a bit boring but I know she goes to events and gala’s and those look really fun. I feel like overall I could do pretty good in this job because a lot of the things you need to be good at I have. She also gets a lot of vacation time. I am also very similar to my mom and I know she does very well in her job. I think down the road this could be a option to look at.

 Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post-secondary (after high school) plans (education? training? travel? work?).

I think it has a lot of value to see what’s out there. I think I realized maybe this is something I want to look into but maybe there were people who realized that’s not at all what they want to do. My dad always tells me you have to work for a long time so you should love what you do. And I think that this just kind of helps us see what we like what we don’t. I plan to go to school right after high school and hopefully get a job right after. I’m not certain on what I want to do yet but I think something in business or marketing maybe. For me I don’t think I would take a year off to travel because I don’t think personally I would go back into school after that.