Analyst Technology Strategy
Requisition ID: 190061
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Technology Strategy & Innovation
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario
City: Mississauga
Location: Tahoe 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 relationship-driven and execution focused Senior Analyst to join the Technology team and play a key role in accelerating our Advanced Technology (Agentic AI, GenAI, Predictive analytics, Work process automation and transformation, etc.) applications across the enterprise. In this role, you'll be responsible for identifying new opportunities, leading, assessing, and scaling proof-of-value exercises and deployments, and facilitating the enablement and acceleration of advanced technologies to maximize value, while ensuring its safe and ethical use.
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 Analyst Technology Strategy. This role can be based out of one our office in Mississauga, ON.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
• Market Research: Leveraging a combination of expertise and external research to identify emerging solutions, identify trends, capture opportunities, and conduct problem-solution fit to propose viable proof-of-value experiments.
• Collaboration: Work collaboratively with other teams, such as Cybersecurity, Enterprise Data Operations, Tech Solutions, Tech Operations, Finance, Communications, Learning and Development, and Technology solution vendor counterparts to achieve results.
• Enterprise AI Advocacy & Integration: Act as a trusted advisor and connection point across business units by deeply understanding enterprise-wide challenges, workflows, and opportunities. Champion and progress the responsible adoption of advanced technologies by translating business needs into actionable plans, executing those plans, and fostering alignment between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Process Reimagination & Transformation Enablement: Lead the organization in preparing for and executing process reimagination initiatives—from discovery and opportunity framing through to implementation and value realization. Drive cross-functional collaboration to identify automation and AI-driven transformation opportunities that enhance efficiency, scalability, and innovation.
• Lead Advanced Technology Proof-of-Value and Deployments: Lead and project manage across stages (discovery, kick-off, success measurement, requirements gathering, testing, iteration, socialization & sell-in, change management, deployment, feedback loop) and impacted stakeholders to achieve results.
• Facilitating Advanced Technology Enablement and Acceleration Operations: Acting as key liaison to steward all Advanced Technology solution requests (embedded, built, and hybrid) through appropriate channels and maintaining registry of capabilities respective costs and realized value.
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What you have to offer:
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in marketing, digital enablement or technology roles.
- Strong preference for candidates with a technical background (e.g., computer science, engineering, data science) who are passionate about AI and emerging technologies. Experience working with data pipelines, analytics, or AI/ML models (including generative and agentic AI) is highly valued. Familiarity with process re-engineering methodologies and the ability to translate technical capabilities into business value is a significant asset.
- Minimum 3-5 years of working within and partnering across Technology organizations (Product Owners, Enterprise Architecture, Data Operations) & Technology operations (discovery, requirements gathering, use case identification, POC lifecycle, business casing, RFP process, UAT testing, deployment, measurement strategy and release management).
- Proven track record of delivering priorities on time and on budget with increased engagement across key stakeholders.
- Experienced project management skills with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and proactively recommends mitigation plans.
- Experienced in creating and executing change management plans and activities.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into insights and action.
- Excels working cross-functionally and managing multiple stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with business partnership experience.
- Self-starter with a bias for action.
- Curiosity and passion for Advanced Technology in market solutions and adoption.
- Curiosity and passion for work process improvement.
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.