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Sobeys
Assistant Category Manager, 18 Month Contract
Mississauga
FULL TIME & CONTRACT
September 20, 2024
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Category Merchandising - Grocery
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario; Alberta; Nova Scotia
City: Mississauga, Calgary, Stellarton
Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.
Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, Fresh Co, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Accountable for the execution of product, placement, pricing, and promotion for items within their categories, consistent with each banner strategy
- Respond to customer needs in their category, and is responsible for developing and executing customer-relevant strategies
- Review and analyze margins, deals, retail savings, pricing reference article, forecasts, units of measure, cost, pages and sales sets for accuracy
- Work with the Category Manager to plan all promotional activity across various categories. Which includes entering all promotions into the promotional tool and reviewing and analyze margins, deals, retail savings, pricing reference article, forecasts, units of measure, cost, pages and for accuracy
- Communicate with Replenishment Team with respect to inventory management
- Review competitive price check and take appropriate action on weekly price change report
- Assist with the resolution of pricing issues
- Review vendor submissions and new article listing reports
- Work with the Food Experience Team and Customer Experience Team on new product launches. This includes reviewing Nutritional Information on all new Products and ingredients to ensure accuracy and working with the procurement team to ensure stock on ingredients.
- Partner with Replenishment Team on inventory management
- Develop a deep understanding of designated categories, market trends and consumer behaviors
- Review Agency Business report daily and review discrepancies with Category Manager
- Assist in ad creation and ad proofing processes
- Respond to requests to meet customer needs
- Identify opportunities and expedite category plans with operational support
- Review underperforming categories
- Work with Category Manager in development and management of merchandising programs
- Work with Category Manager in managing the seasonal process
What you have to offer:
- Ability to leverage technology (SAP, Microsoft Office suite, etc.) to review and analyze large volumes of data
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the business (oral and written)
- Ability to work in a team environment, as well as individually
- Ability to negotiate
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Previous experience working in the retail industry; grocery industry preferred
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At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.
We offer a competitive compensation package, which varies by role. Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.
We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.
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