Director Retail Enablement & Optimization - En

Requisition ID: 175548

Career Group: Corporate Office Careers

Job Category: Retail Enablement & Optimization

Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%

Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)

Province: Nova Scotia; Alberta; British Columbia; Ontario

City: Stellarton, Dartmouth, Halifax, Mississauga, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver

Location: Foord St. Office, Calgary Office, Tahoe Office, Bureau de Montréal-Nord, Dartmouth Office, Edmonton Office, Vancouver Office, HALIFAX DEVELOPMENTS

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Our family of 134,000 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 1500 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

All career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting.

Ready to Make an impact?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Director Retail Enablement and Optimization to provide strategic and operational leadership of Continuous Improvement, Project Integration and Store Communications, across all supported Business Unites.

Here’s Where You’ll Be Focusing

Provide strategic and operational leadership of Continuous Improvement, Project integration and Store Communications, across all supported Business Units

Align Continuous Improvement strategy, organization structure, governance and standards, with Sobeys strategic principles on:

• Ensuring technologies, accounting, and controls lead to high quality service delivery
• Sponsor and support the team on deep dives on critical business processes to evaluate efficiency and effectiveness
• Monitor and compare operational metrics to known industry standards or benchmarks and to ourselves historically
• Enable retail innovation, facilitating pilot programs and evaluation of results in advance of larger roll-out decisions
• Align with store operations to manage appropriate pace of change
• Build store communications strategy in partnership with Operations; evolve and improve the day to day communications approach, methodology and tools
• Build and own the retail enablement backlog of process improvement opportunities
• Identify ways to improve policies, procedures, and processes relating to Retail operations staying abreast of industry innovation and best practices
• Aligning systems
• Customer service (internal & external)
• Collaborate and plan closely with Retail Systems Product Owners and store operations teams to innovate and execute for our stores
• Harmonizing/standardizing processes
• Collaborate in the process optimization opportunities for the Company
• Collaborate with business product owners for continued systems optimization
• Sponsor and drive forward opportunities to bring benefits (financial and other) to Retail Operations,
• Cost control and efficiencies
• Sponsor and support small business-led initiatives

People leadership

• Coach, develop and empower members within functional team
• Lead functional team and drive engagement
• Communicate employee engagement results and commit to engagement action plan

Knowledge of English is required, as the candidate will be expected to work closely with peers in other provinces in planning, developing and implementing processes and participating in key national strategic projects. The incumbent will also have to supervise members of her team who are based in provinces other than Quebec.

What You Have To Offer

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Continuous Improvement retail environment
• Strong business acumen
• An Undergraduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
• Strong communication skills
• Preferred - Bilingual

If you feel that this describes the kind of work you want to do, and you are excited about what Sobeys has to offer, then we look forward to reviewing your application. Please ensure that you take the time to ensure your profile shows us why you’re the most qualified applicant for the role.

Sobeys Offers Our Employees Many Valuable Benefits Such As

• Growing organization
• Flexible health and dental benefits (eligible employees)
• Profit Sharing Plan (based on company performance)
• Ongoing training and development
• Competitive salary
• Pension Plan
• Flexible work arrangements

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a leading Canadian company with a clear vision and focus on innovation. If you feel that this describes the kind of work you want to do, and you are excited about what Sobeys has to offer, then we look forward to reviewing your application. Please ensure that you take the time to ensure your profile shows us why you’re the most qualified applicant for the role.

We offer teammates competitive total compensation packages that will vary by role and location. 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 or monitored for accuracy by our organization. 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.

Sobeys is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.

While all responses are appreciated only those being considered for interviews will be acknowledged.

We appreciate the interest from the Staffing industry however respectfully request no calls or unsolicited resumes from Agencies.