category purchasing manager
Title posted on CareerBeacon -
Category Manager
Posted on
October 24, 2024
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Employer details
Sobeys Inc.
Job details
Requisition ID: 185996 Career Group: Corporate Office Careers Job Category: Category Merchandising - Grocery Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%Job Type: Full-Time Country: Canada (CA) Province: Nova Scotia; Alberta; Ontario City: Stellarton, Calgary, Edmonton, MississaugaLocation: Foord St. Office, Calgary Office, Edmonton Office, King St. Office, Tahoe OfficeEmbark 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. Here's where you'll be focusing:Lead Assistant Category Managers (ACMs) Support the banner merchandising strategies and drive both customer loyalty and sales growth through effective assortment, pricing, promotions, placements and use of customer insights;Coach, train and mentor Assistant Category Managers to develop category plans, implement category strategies and manage vendor relationships;Work with the ACMs to execute category plans that meet the needs of the banners within each geographic region;Coordinate and lead quarterly Joint Business Planning meetings between the vendors and the ACMs;Inspire product and program innovations from the Category Management teams and the vendors;Lead overall strategy for category Responsible to establish category level margin budgets that meet the targets of the regional banners;Set performance targets for categories including: sales, promotional mix, shrink;Manage promotional and category sales mixes to achieve banner targets by geographic region and store format;Translate strategic category plans into tactical merchandising activities;Identify opportunities in-line with consumer trends and banner strategies;Communicate category performance to operational leadership teams across the country;Maintain a clear understanding of department programs being executed by competitors;Ensure a high level of personal and team education on department strategies and tactics being executed in North America and Europe, including the growth of ethnic assortments;Drive traffic sales and cross traffic shopping with food business;Direct the execution of merchandising categories Work with category peers to establish quarterly and annual promotional plans;Direct the category promotion-pricing strategies and weekly ad planning process;Hold Joint Business Plan meetings is accordance with the annual schedule;Build vendor relationships to enable effective Joint Business Planning and strategic planning;Conduct regular Category Reviews and Warranty Walks;Analyze category performance in the market place and at individual competitors;Empower employees and develop top talent Create opportunities for skill development and career progression to develop talent.What you have to offer:Undergraduate degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience;Experience in a purchasing, merchandising, retail, manufacturing or corporate environment;Strong negotiation skills;Ability to translate customer insights and market trends into actionable strategies;Ability to build relationships with vendors;Ability to weigh buying vs selling trade offs and make bold decisions;Be results driven; consider P&L impact;Be highly data oriented with strong analytical abilities.At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid wo
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LocationEdmonton, AB
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Workplace information
On site
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SalaryNot available
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Terms of employment
Permanent employmentFull time
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Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies
1 vacancy
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CareerBeacon
#2119877
Advertised until
2024-11-22
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