Administrator Category - 18-month contract
Requisition ID: 187379
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Costing and Promotions
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario
City: Mississauga
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?
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for passionate new talent to join our team! We are currently looking for an Administrator Category. This is an 18-month contract. It is a hybrid role and there is an in-office requirement of 3 days a week. The office is located in Mississauga.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Accountable to ensure the agreed to merchandising plans set by the Category Manager is communicated and executed for weekly, monthly and seasonal timeframes.
- Responsible for providing immediate and ad hoc analytical support for the Category Manager on day-to-day activities.
- Responsible to secure any missing information required for the merchandising services team to execute tasks such as costing, deals, retails, report requirements, RSC’s deleted items, etc.
- Accountable for their respective development plan to grow and develop as potential future Category Managers and/or leaders.
- Responsible to support all activities to achieve targeted sales and margin targets for their respective categories.
- Validate promotions in promotional planning tool and make corrections.
- Manage downstream tasks from promotional planning tool.
- Manage Consumer Marketing Administration (CMA) activity.
- Manage real time promotional changes.
- Activate promotional retails.
- Manage coupons for flyer ads.
- Manage distribution/allocation tables and create booking sheets.
- Store Communications
- Act as point of contact for store operations to address issues.
- Assist with resolution of retail pricing and signage issues.
- Work with Category Managers to coordinate activities across National Discount function, and Merchandising Services.
What you have to offer:
- College diploma and a minimum of 1 year relevant experience
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Familiarity with SAP would be considered an asset
- Bilingualism would be 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 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.