Requisition ID: 188739

Career Group: Corporate Office Careers

Job Category: Wholesale - Merchandising & Marketing

Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%

Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)

Province: Alberta

City: Calgary

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?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have an opening for an Assistant Category Manager - Fresh. In this role you will provide support to the Category Director and Category Merchant in their role by assisting, coordinating, executing and validating tasks link to category merchandising processes. This is a hybrid role and there is an in-office requirement of 3 days a week. The office is located in Calgary. This is a 12-month contract.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

• Ability to develop a deep understanding of designated categories, market trends and consumer behaviors.

• Be accountable for the product, placement, pricing, and promotion for items within their categories, consistent with each banner strategy.

• Respond to customer needs in their category and is responsible for developing and executing customer-relevant strategies.

• Negotiate the lowest cost of goods and meet sales and profit targets.

• Review and analyze margins, deals, retail savings, pricing reference article, forecasts, units of measure, cost, pages and sales sets for accuracy.

• Review Agency Business report daily and review discrepancies with Category Manager

• Communicate with Replenishment Team with respect to inventory management.

• Review competitive price check and take appropriate action on weekly price change report.

• Assist with the resolution of pricing issues.

• Review vendor submissions and new article listing reports.

• Assist in ad creation and ad proofing processes.

• Respond to requests to meet customer needs.

• Identify opportunities and expedite category plans with operational support.

• Review underperforming categories.

What you have to offer:

• Ability to leverage technology (SAP, Excel) to review and analyze large volumes of data.

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the business (oral and written)

• Ability to work in a team environment.

• Ability to negotiate and influence others.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office

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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 competitive compensation package, which varies by role. 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 our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

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.

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.