GS1 Canada

Public Relations

• Ensures the effectiveness of related sector councils and community working groups as the primary external representative and thought leader with data suppliers and data recipients, as well as industry associations.
• Represents subscribers and maintains a subscriber-focused reach while building relationships, encouraging participation, and supporting adoption compliance, protocol adoption, and strategic planning for GS1 IT systems.
• Facilitates priority planning and ensures all efforts are community-driven, and that these efforts are represented in their objectives, goals, strategies, metrics, and respective risk registers.
• Oversees community engagement and adoption of the GS1 standards framework.
• Develops and executes sector strategies aligned with GS1 Canada’s organizational strategy, drives adoption of standards-based services, and collaborates with the extended leadership team to ensure the organization’s long-term viability and success.
• Builds trusted relationships internally, externally, and globally to deliver value to subscribers, share best practices, capitalize on opportunities, and optimize strategic outcomes.
• Manages industry coordination, encourages associations and other stakeholders to identify long-term business needs, and promotes GS1 Canada’s mission.
• Establishes GS1 standards and GS1 IT system roadmaps, and defines specific objectives and timelines by understanding the sectors’ desired future state and current state, and identifying the gaps to move from current to desired future state.
• Acts as the accountable lead for community groups and working groups, leveraging deep knowledge and insights to define service requirements or enhancements, identify new opportunities, and ensure smooth adoption of GS1 Canada services by data suppliers, data recipients, and related solution providers.
• Collaborates with various departments, including standards and implementation teams, to incorporate sector perspectives and improve user experience, and supports business development and cost-recovery initiatives.
• Advocates for and develops talent, models organizational culture, builds capabilities, and manages a high-performing matrix organization that integrates an enterprise-wide vision and translates it into achievable talent objectives.
• Drives engagement, mentoring, development, performance management, and succession planning to strengthen the leadership team and ensure the organization’s long-term success.
• Supports GS1 Canada’s vision by identifying and developing strategies and budgets targeting specific sectors for subscriber retention and growth, users of GS1 standards, and users of GS1 IT systems.
• Serves as a senior advisor to co-chairs on major changes in the competitive ecosystem, the global context, and external and internal business environments.
• Assists the extended leadership team in developing and overseeing GS1 Canada’s long-term strategies, including achieving and maintaining GS1 Canada’s position as a trusted partner delivering industry value.
• Collaborates with the product management and support teams to define GS1 Canada’s product and innovation strategies and ensure industry needs are communicated and embedded into design and implementation across the industry.
• Assists the extended leadership team and the Chief Financial Officer in developing an annual operating plan that delivers the long-term strategy.
• Ensures all strategies and solutions and their implementations meet the needs of the communities represented.
• Cultivates and manages strong relationships with business partners and vendors, including the global office, member organizations, solution providers, industry leaders, associations, strategic partners, and experts.
• Works with Public Affairs to identify and promote government engagement as a regulator, advocate, or user.

Vice President, Community Engagement – Grocery and Foodservice

Project Manager

• Managing the collaboration between internal teams and external consultants to ensure timely task completion, promoting accountability, teamwork, and motivation.
• Facilitates decision-making by building consensus, navigating challenges, and overcoming interpersonal obstacles. Leads the implementation of team decisions to avoid decision delays.
• Demonstrates inclusivity and integrity within the project team and across the organization.
• Advocates for the team during difficult situations.
• Applies project planning frameworks to manage programs and contribute to portfolio management.
• Directly leads medium to large projects with nominal or medium complexity, developing medium complexity timelines for project completion, with alternative plans in place if needed.
• Establish and monitor project budgets, ensuring alignment with approved financial targets and timelines.
• Setup and maintain project scope within approved baseline budget, using negotiations and adjustments where necessary.
• Manage the triple constraints (schedule, scope, budget) to achieve consistent, predictable outcomes.
• Develop and maintain a risk registry, assess and mitigate business and technical risks, and work with project sponsors to manage the risk plan.
• Utilize risk management tools to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, adjusting resources and budgets as needed.
• Anticipate risks to project success and develop proactive strategies to minimize impact.
• Collaborate with product management to translate customer needs into project requirements.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to business partners, executives, and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of project status and urgency.
• Present creative solutions to project challenges while conveying the appropriate level of expertise to executives.
• Facilitate program retrospectives, gather insights, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Cultivate a culture that embraces change and innovation, positioning uncertainty as an opportunity for growth.
• Support team members in adapting to change and manage the impact of change initiatives.
• Collaborate with relevant teams to address risks and disruptions caused by changes.
• Plan and implement change management strategies, assess impacts, and adjust plans as necessary.
• Set up and launch Agile projects following Domain-Driven Design principles (e.g., SPADO).
• Adapt to new domains of expertise as required and contribute to technical release scheduling.
• Utilize tools such as Azure DevOps and Jira to track and manage projects.

Senior Project Manager

Business Analyst

• Assess, research, analyse, and document sponsor/stakeholder requirements in accordance with project life cycle methodologies being utilized, and including standard reporting tools, requirements gathering methodologies, process models, data analysis, GUI/report designs, demos, and prototypes;
• Facilitate requirements elicitation with business and technology stakeholders, including workshops, interviews, and working sessions
• Conduct end-to-end process, system, and data flow analysis, including upstream/downstream impacts and integrations
• Recommend business solutions that satisfy sponsor/stakeholder needs, continually exploring and assessing options for enhanced value to our subscribers;
• Collaborate closely with delivery teams to clarify requirements, support solution design, and resolve ambiguities during development
• Define and execute UAT plans while ensuring acceptance criteria are satisfied;
• Provide support, leadership, and expertise for the requirements definition, design, testing, and implementation of GS1 CA products and services through demonstration of working knowledge of SDLC and Agile principles.
• Prepare end-user documentation and training material;
• Resolve conflicts/issues using different tactics prior to escalation.
• Understand all business systems within GS1 Canada to perform proper impact assessments;
• Conduct workshops, demos, and pilots with internal stakeholders and the subscriber community;
• Work closely with the project manager to monitor and ensure that the project is being accurately tracked.
• Support industry committees with functional expertise on business systems;
• Present analysis, requirements, and findings to management and internal/external stakeholders to communicate systems/business capabilities and recommendations

Senior Business Analyst

Product Designer

• Define the long-term design vision and translate it into a clear, actionable strategy and roadmap.
• Build a culture where Product Design is a strategic partner across Product, Engineering, Data, and Industry teams.
• Reset expectations around experience quality, process, and user-centered design.
• Partner with Product leadership to influence roadmap decisions using user insights, experience principles, and holistic design thinking.
• Own the end-to-end experience strategy across GS1 Canada’s digital platforms, ensuring coherence, clarity, and usability.
• Establish design principles and patterns that scale across complex workflows and data ecosystems.
• Personally design UX flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI for major initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to iterate quickly and ensure experience quality.
• Champion accessibility, simplicity, and a consistent design system.
• Introduce design rituals that elevate collaboration and design outcomes.
• Mature and expand our design system and reusable component library.
• Implement workflows that balance velocity with quality.
• Lead a practical, actionable research approach that informs product decisions.
• Identify research priorities and synthesize insights into clear recommendations.
• Build lightweight measurement frameworks to track UX improvements.
• Own and optimize design tools (e.g., Figma).
• Develop strategies for leveraging behavioral data and insights to improve usability.
• Ensure design decisions are grounded in evidence, not assumptions.
• Identify opportunities to incorporate AI into workflows, automation, and decision support.
• Partner with Product & Engineering to design intuitive and trustworthy AI-enabled experiences.
• Manage and develop designers, providing clear direction and coaching.
• Foster a creative, high-performance culture.
• Shape future team structure and hiring as the function grows.

Director, Product Design

Product Manager

• Defines and evolves GS1 Canada’s integration vision, strategy, and strategic roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business stakeholders, technology partners, global standards (e.g., GDSN), and enterprise systems used by subscribers.
• Oversees the definition, development, and ongoing evolution of subscriber-facing APIs and other integrations.
• Assists Industry Managed Solutions and Finance teams in establishing product pricing proposals to meet financial targets.
• Supports Industry Marketing in developing go-to-marketing plans, including core positioning and messaging for assigned products.
• Defines, reviews, and analyses key results and performance metrics (such as adoption, performance, satisfaction, and time-to-value) to ensure successful outcomes.
• Partners with Account Management teams and key subscribers to elicit feedback, collaborate on pilot or launch projects, and support new subscriber acquisition.
• Acts as the subject matter expert on new trends and opportunities, through research, analysis, and market insights monitoring.
• Develops and articulates, for an executive audience, business cases, project(s) scope, product definition, including benefits, features and benefits, business rationale, and financial projections.
• Manages complex stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally, ensuring all industry partners and stakeholders are appropriately engaged and updated on all relevant product plans.
• Collaborates with third-party vendors and internal technical teams to ensure seamless integration with PIM, ERP, and e-commerce platforms.
• Owns the end-to-end lifecycle of integration products, from market analysis and ideation, through development and delivery, to support transitions and end-of-life.

Product Manager, Integrations

• Engage directly with users to uncover needs, pain points, and opportunities.
• Translate customer insights into validated product ideas and strategic initiatives.
• Leverage your experience and understanding across engineering, design, and marketing to drive cohesive, integrated product strategies and tactics.
• Act as a bridge across functions, facilitating clear communication, alignment, and coordinated execution.
• Develop and champion a compelling, clear, and outcome-focused product vision and roadmap that aligns platform capabilities, features, and APIs with corporate strategic plans and KPIs.
• Communicate clearly and effectively across the organization, aligning stakeholders and inspiring teams to achieve strategic goals and adopt a product-led approach.
• Employ rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative feedback loops to validate product assumptions quickly and effectively.
• Define clear, measurable objectives focused on meaningful outcomes rather than simply shipping features.
• Collaborate on CI/CD pipeline, monitoring, and incident response with DevOps.

Community Manager

• Leads respective sector board effectiveness and community workgroups as the primary external representative and thought leader with data providers, data recipients, solution providers and industry associations.
• Represents the voice of subscribers, ensuring a subscriber-centric focus while building relationships, driving participation, and supporting adoption compliance, protocol adoption, and strategic planning of Industry Managed Solutions.
• Facilitates priority planning and ensures all efforts are community driven and represented in respective OGSMs and Heat Maps.
• Oversees the community engagement and adoption of the GS1 system of standards
• Develops and executes sector strategies aligned with GS1 Canada’s enterprise strategy, driving community adoption of standards-based services and collaborating with the Extended Leadership Team to ensure long-term organizational health and success.
• Builds trusted internal, external, and global industry partnerships to deliver subscriber value, share best practices, drive opportunities, and optimize strategic outcomes.
• Lead industry liaison, influencing associations, and other stakeholders to identify long-term business needs and advance GS1 Canada’s mission.
• Establishes GS1 standards and IMS adoption roadmaps with specific goals and timelines, by understanding the respective sectors desired future state, current state, and identifying the gaps to fill to move from current state to future desired state.
• Accountable for respective community workgroup and task groups and leverages deep industry knowledge and insights to inform service requirements and/or enhancements, identify new opportunities, and ensure seamless adoption of GS1 services by Data Providers, Data Recipients and relative solution providers.
• Collaborates across functions, including Industry Managed Solutions and implementation teams, to integrate sector insights enhance user experience, and support business development and cost recovery initiatives.
• Talent champion who role models organizational culture, builds capability, and leads a high-performing matrix organization, integrating enterprise-wide vision into actionable talent objectives.
• Drives engagement, coaching, development, performance management, and succession planning to strengthen the leadership bench and ensure long-term organizational success.
• Support the achievement of GS1 Canada vision by identifying and developing strategies and budgets targeting specific areas for retention and growth of GS1 Canada subscribers, GS1 Standards users, and IMS users.
• Acts as a key advisor to the Co-Presidents on critical changes in the competitive landscape, global environment, external and internal business environment.
• Assist the Extended Leadership team to develop and oversee GS1 Canada’s long-term strategies including achievement and maintenance of GS1 Canada’s position as a trusted partner in value delivery to industry.
• Collaborate with Product Leadership and support in defining GS1 Canada’s product and innovation strategies ensuring industry needs are communicated and represented in design and implementation across industry.
• Assist the Extended Leadership team and Finance Lead to develop an annual operating plan that realizes the long-term strategy.
• Ensures all strategies, solutions and their implementation reflect the needs of the community represented.
• Cultivate and manage healthy relationships with strategic partners and vendors including Global Office, Member Organizations, Solution Providers, Industry Leaders, Associations and Strategic Partners and subject matter experts.
• Collaborates with Public Affairs to identify and advance government engagement as a regulator, supporter and/or user.
• Achieves cost recovery goals in alignment with community commitment to achieve critical mass adoption, along with sector penetration strategies, and provide leadership to teams to generate and execute operational plans. Establish a cadence of reporting with Finance to ensure accountability on budgeting, forecasting, and P&L.
• Identify opportunities for capital and operational improvements that enhance cost recovery, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase value to industry.