Operations Planner
Requisition ID: 182375
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: E-commerce Planning
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario
City: Toronto
Location: Sobeys Innovation Hub
Postal Code: M5V 1X6
Our family of 131,000 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 an Operations Planner who will support our sales forecasting efforts and ensure the balance between capacity and demand. As an Operations Planner, you will play an important role in shaping our sales strategies and ensuring optimal resource allocation to drive business success.
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 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 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
- Work a rotation between Monday to Sunday for morning and evening shifts
- 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 of 2+ years directly related work experience
- University degree, preferably Commerce or Engineering Degree
- Previous planning experience required, including but not limited to order modeling and forecasting and re-forecasting; integrated planning experience, planning for distribution inbound/outbound; category planning
- Expert level use of Microsoft Office suite, including advanced Excel
- Experience in SQL and Python is an asset
- Experience in Supply Chain is an asset
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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.
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