Requisition ID: 184860
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

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 an Operations Planner who will support our E-commerce team in labour and capacity planning as well as sales forecasting and analytics. The incumbent must have strong analytics skills with experience MS Excel/Power Query, operation understanding.

Here's where you'll be focusing:

• Work with merchandising team on sales forecasting and analytics
• Collaborate with Planning peers as related to baseline metrics, targets, data, and results (analysis support and insight)
• Work with Operational Planning and Analytics Manager to ensure expectations and timelines met Interact with CFC and delivery to get hard limits
• Support labour and capacity planning or capacity optimization
• 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

What you have to offer:

• Diploma/Bachelor's degree; Industrial Engineering/Data Analytics/Computer Science is preferred
• Minimum of 2 years analytical and/or planning experience, including but not limited to order modeling and forecasting
• Expert level use of Microsoft Office suite, including advanced Excel skills
• Experience with PowerApps, Power Automate, Power Query (strong asset)
• Experience in Python programming for data mining and modeling (asset)
• Experience in SQL (Asset)
• Experience with reporting and visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across functions

The candidate will be expected to work collaboratively with peers in other provinces to develop procedures and processes to be implemented nationally. They will also have to interact regularly with her peers in other provinces, as well as provide support to Sobeys employees across Canada.

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.