Director E-commerce Replenishment
City : Vaughan, ON
Category : Corporate Office Careers
Industry : Retail
Employer : Sobeys Inc.
Requisition ID: 186479
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: E-commerce Replenishment
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario; Alberta; British Columbia; Nova Scotia
City: Vaughan
Location: 3809 GTA CFC
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?
The Director, E-Commerce Replenishment is accountable for building, leading, and developing a team in preparing demand forecasts and replenishment for Sobeys e-commerce; collecting and managing master data; and implementing business analysis and reporting.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Own demand forecasting and replenishment for e-commerce at the category and SKU level to deliver e-commerce P&L
- Establish demand planning and replenishment team to work with merchandising and operations to optimize sales and inventory productivity
- Leverage Ocado Smart Platform system and tools to achieve targets for product availability, accuracy, freshness, and waste
- Manage supplier performance with respect to order-fill and on-time delivery, working with suppliers and category managers on improvements as needed
- Work with suppliers and operations to coordinate timing of in-bound freight loads to ensure optimal utilization of receiving docks and fulfillment center capacity
- Work with suppliers and operations to manage overstock and minimize waste
- Continually improve approach based on learning and industry best practices
- Own collection and updating of master data for e-commerce, including product data from core merchandising systems integrated with Ocado Smart Platform
- Utilize master data to analyze the business and adjust demand forecasting and replenishment as needed
What you have to offer:
- Minimum 10 years experience working in E-Commerce or Retail, specifically in Demand Planning / Forecasting / Replenishment
- Experience building and leading high performance teams
- Strategic thinking with deep understanding of e-commerce and retail industry
- Solid organizational, interpersonal, time management and problem solving skills
- Proven track record of defining and implementing effective processes and tools
- Experience using SAP beneficial but not required
- Bachelors Degree or a combination of relevant work experience
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.