Buyer (12-month term)

Jobinhalt

Requisition ID:159826

Career Group:Corporate Office Careers

Job Category:Replenishment Ontario & Atlantic

Travel Requirements:0 - 10%

Job Type:Full-Time

Country:Canada (CA)

Province:Nova Scotia; Ontario

City:Stellarton / Mississauga

Location:Foord St. Office, Tahoe Office

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Our family of 127,000 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 1500 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawton’s Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

All career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting.

Overview

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities and we are always looking for bright new talent! We currently have a 12-month term opportunity for a Buyerto join our Merchandising team based out of our offices in Stellarton, NS or Mississauga, ON.

Job Description

What you will get in this fast-paced role:

• Perform replenishment process, to include purchase order execution for regular turns, promotional, and investment buying
• Accountable for service level and inventory turns
• Support the development and execution of best-practice inventory management processes that will meet or exceed benchmarks for customer order fill, freshness, shrink and inventory turns
• Ensure that the replenishment function meets budgeted financial targets and contributes to the respective region and banner strategies
• Monitor and take appropriate action on vendor performance with respect to order fill and on time delivery
• Identify and communicate opportunities with vendors, Category Management, Merchandising, Replenishment, and Logistics on areas for improvement
• Ensure that system maintenance (AWR,WDFR) is performed based on ABC classification
• Accountable for service levels and turns
• Deliver against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure success based on service level, and inventory turns
  

Job Requirements

What Your Resume Will Include And Demonstrate To Us

• 2+ years experience in Inventory Management, Replenishment, Logistics and/or Store Operations
• Knowledge of principles of demand forecasting and inventory planning
• Extensive knowledge of Excel (intermediate)
• Grocery experience preferred
• Ability to understand buying functions
• Strong relationship building skills to strengthen partnerships with vendors within each division as well as internal teams (Category Management, Demand Planners, Supply Chain & Logistics)
• Exceptional communication skills
• Ability to identify operational issues and proactively drive solutions
• Ability to work in a stress and pressure environment
• Ability to work independently on assigned portfolio
  

Benefits Of Working At Sobeys

Sobeys offers our employees many valuable benefits such as:

• Growing organization
• Competitive salary
• Ongoing Training & Development
• Opportunity for internal mobility to other departments and/or promotions (for employees who are strong performers)
  

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.

While all responses are appreciated only those being considered for interviews will be acknowledged.

We appreciate the interest from the Staffing industry however respectfully request no calls or unsolicited resumes from Agencies.