Media buyer Offres d'emploi - Laval qc

Requisition ID :  185900

Career Group :  Corporate Office Careers

Job Category :  Approvisionnement - F&L

Travel Requirements :  0 - 10%

Job Type :  Full-Time

Country : Canada (CA)

Province : Québec; Nova Scotia; Ontario

City : Montréal-Nord

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 a Buyer in our West Grocery Buying Team. In this role, the successful candidate will take an active role in supporting our Customer base with excellence in Procurement and will be a suitable transition for someone with Inventory Control background or previous Supply Chain Skills.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing :

• Maintain Freshness – daily review of inventory, sales, and upcoming PO’s to minimize shrink / sell offs for article that exceed the target date ( 1 to 5 day window, minimal safety stock )
• Maintain Freshness – Proactively review and identify articles that will exceed the target date (1 to 5 day window, minimal safety stock ) and immediately action as required  (which may include working with CM to create a promotion and reduce price or could result in reselling to wholesalers)
• Service Level :  daily review to identify and prevent out of stock situation as several suppliers are listed by article.
• Service Level : Identify and build relationships with wholesalers or find new suppliers from the market who can provide ad hoc coverage when regular suppliers are unable to support an order (This includes negotiating to ensure they will comply with our specifications, provide fair price, and will meet required demand)
• Freight Optimization – daily review to ensure truck is maximized for weight / cube to maintain and reduce costs
• Perform replenishment process, to include purchase order execution for baseline, promotional, and investment buying
• Decision making based on forecast, seasonality, on hand / order quantities, supplier lead time / transit time and Sourcing Manager’s quota file.
• Conduct analysis to evaluate future customer demand based on historical data.
• Support the development and execution of best-practice inventory management processes that will meet or exceed benchmarks for customer order fill, freshness
• Accountable to adhere to weekly buy guide and ensure that the replenishment function meets budgeted financial targets (to avoid any impact to the margin) which contributes to the respective region and banner strategies

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What you have to offer :

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.