Retail Facilities Coordinator - Contract
Role Overview
Provide facilities support to retail store teams by coordinating services, repairs, projects, and rollouts efficiently while balancing budgets and priorities.
The goal is to support employee and customer experience while minimizing business disruption.
Reports to the Senior Manager, Facilities & Retail Services.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role mission
Provide facilities support to retail store teams by coordinating services, repairs, projects, and rollouts efficiently while balancing budgets and priorities.
The goal is to support employee and customer experience while minimizing business disruption.
Reports to the Senior Manager, Facilities & Retail Services.
Functional accountabilities
- Manage facilities help tickets for assigned stores or service specialties within appropriate time frames.
- Coordinate work schedules, updates, resolutions, contractors, and completion of facilities work.
- Measure and report contractor and vendor performance against service expectations and KPIs.
- Audit facilities invoices and ensure timely payment.
- Ensure compliance with provincial and federal health and safety legislation.
- Create and audit maintenance plans for new and renovated stores.
- Coordinate with property managers and landlords as required.
- Provide urgent on-call rotational support; identify cost- and energy-saving initiatives and develop preventative maintenance programs.
People and collaboration
- Build relationships with store leadership and cross-functional partners, including Facilities, Construction, Finance/Accounting, Loss Prevention, Real Estate, Retail Operations, Store Design, Sustainability, and Visual Merchandising.
- Advocate for customers, collaborate on flexible solutions, share technical knowledge, and engage other functions for input.
- Model company values, support continual learning and change, welcome feedback, and work collaboratively.
Experience and qualifications
- Minimum five years of retail experience or experience supporting retail.
- Sound knowledge of facilities maintenance and repairs, health, safety, and environmental regulations.
- Working knowledge of project management principles and practices; experience in expense and budget management.
- Proven vendor collaboration experience.
- Skilled with Microsoft 365 and experienced in facilities ticket and invoicing software.
Competencies
- Excellent verbal and written communication; analytical and agile decision-making; tenacious problem-solving.
- Able to manage multiple priorities, identify urgencies, work independently, and take ownership and responsibility.
- Bilingual French and English is an asset.
Travel and schedule
- Minimal travel to Indigo stores and Home Office.
- Ability to work nights and weekends as required during rotational on-call assignments.
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