Sales & Capacity Planning
Requisition ID: 189480
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: E-commerce Planning
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Alberta
City: Calgary, Edmonton
Location: Calgary Office, Edmonton Office
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, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
We are looking for a Sales and Capacity Planner who will support our sales forecasting efforts and ensure the balance between capacity and demand. In this role, you will play an important role in shaping our sales strategies and ensuring optimal resource allocation to drive business success.
The ideal candidate will have strong proficiency in SQL, Excel, and Power Apps, along with experience in the retail industry. Your expertise in these areas will be essential to driving data-driven decisions and improving planning processes.
This role will operate four days a week, from Sunday to Wednesday, covering the 1 PM to 11 PM MST shift.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Create mid to short term plan of sales, capacity, and availability
- Analyze and understand dynamic forecasts to maximize sales, including forecasting key assumptions
- Perform complex analysis in a specific area of sales and capacity planning
- Manage day to day sales and capacity planning operations
- Balance delivery and CFC (customer fulfillment center) capacity to maximize efficiency
- Monitor and react to customer demand and slot availability for customers
- Interpreting the trends and variances in key reporting in support of decisions that are required to improve financial performance
- Create and re-create routes, resolve violations (ex. DPV (delivery per vehicle) exceeds recommended weight guidelines) and incorporate event considerations
- Optimize business process and identify opportunities to reduce costs
- Provide the business relevant, reliable, and timely sales and capacity planning information including Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and appropriate variance analysis
- Support CFC / spoke planning (secondary sites)
- Provide analytical support to Operational Planning Manager
- Communicate closely with sales teams, operational teams, and other planning teams
- Prepare various ad-hoc reporting requests and analytical reports
- Act as the key contact for emergency capacity planning needs from the CFC
- Identify and respond to and resolve operational issues in a timely manner
- Support the preparation of data analysis, insight, and recommendations, as assigned
- Provide excellent level of customer service to all levels of the business
What you have to offer:
- Minimum 2 years of professional experience in data analytics.
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Commerce, Engineering, or a related field.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
- Experience with Tableau or PowerBI is required.
- Familiarity with Power Apps is a plus.
- Previous experience in planning is an advantage, including order modeling, forecasting, re-forecasting, and integrated planning for inbound/outbound distribution and category planning.
- Experience in the grocery and retail sectors is highly desirable.
- Supply chain experience is considered an asset.
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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 comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.
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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.
Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:
- Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
- A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
- Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
- Parental leave top-up
- Paid Vacation and Days-off
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.