Price Communication Strategy Manager
Requisition ID: 188598
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Media Strategy & Performance
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario; Alberta; Nova Scotia
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?
The Manager, Price Communications Strategy is a key role in our Marketing Centres of Excellence, collaborating across cross-functional disciplines to drive customer and business value through strategic communications of our key offers. The successful candidate will lead omnichannel planning and strategy, looking at a program level and the intersection of traditional and digital media amplification across multiple Empire banners. They will own the ongoing strategic analysis and budget to inform data-driven optimizations and the key processes to operationalize required change management and communication to align with overarching business strategies.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Drive omnichannel planning and program level optimizations, both long-term strategy and as the key point of contact on weekly opportunities
- Oversee distribution strategy and work closely with partners across flyer production, banner marketing, merchandising, operations, business intelligence, media, and finance to develop cost efficient and effective plans
- Develop and deliver key communications across a variety of levels to distill the complex into a compelling and actionable narrative
- Overarching budget management and understanding of key levers
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What you have to offer:
- Minimum of 8 years experience, ideally at a national level with retail, industry, or flyer experience
- Understanding of omnichannel customer journeys and evaluating outcome-focused audience-first plans
- Strategic thinker who can balance both long- and short-term roadmaps and required change management
- Analytical with ability to establish priorities and build & evaluate data-driven scenarios
- Collaborative with established success and passion for connecting cross-functional teams, building relationships, and influencing outcomes
- Excellent communication skills with expertise building presentations and comfort delivering to large and small groups across many levels
- Experience managing multi-million dollar budgets across all channels
- Ability to navigate ambiguity
- Commitment to coaching and development
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.