Buyer

Jace Holdings Ltd.; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the grocery sector is seeking a Buyer for their Meat, Deli, and Seafood category. This full-time role entails managing inventory, ensuring service levels, and executing best-practice replenishment processes. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience and a degree or DEC certification. Join a diverse team focused on delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Benefits

Competitive Benefits Package

10% in-store discount

Learning and Development Resources

Parental leave top-up

Paid Vacation and Days-off

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years relevant experience for Undergraduate Degree holders.
• Minimum of 4 years relevant experience for DEC holders.
• Knowledgeable about demand forecasting principles.

Responsibilities

• Deliver against KPIs for service level and inventory management.
• Perform replenishment processes including purchase orders.
• Accountable for vendor performance and inventory turnover.

Skills

Demand forecasting

Inventory planning

Excel

Grocery experience

Education

Undergraduate Degree

DEC

Job description

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Requisition ID: 190021
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Replenishment Deli & Meat
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

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.

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Buyer- Meat, Deli, Seafood category.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

• Deliver against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure success based on service level, inventory turns and shrink (fresh)
• Manage service level and inventory performance for respective categories
• 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

What you have to offer:

• An Undergraduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience or a DEC and a minimum of 4 years relevant experience
• Knowledge of principles of demand forecasting and inventory planning
• Extensive knowledge of Excel (intermediate)
• Fresh or Grocery experience (as applicable)

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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 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.