Brand Manager

Requisition ID : 181416

Career Group : Corporate Office Careers

Job Category : Merchandising-Fresh Own Brands

Travel Requirements : 0 - 10%

Job Type : Full-Time

Country : Canada (CA)

Province : Ontario

City : Mississauga

Location : Tahoe Office

Postal Code : L4W 0C7

Our family of 131,000 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?

This Pivotal role will focus on developing and executing Own Brand strategies for assigned categories, managing the development, maintenance of Own Brand Programs and leading the Brand specialists in the development of objectives.

Here's where you'll be focusing :

• Align with Category Management to develop and execute long term strategic plans with the goal of increasing Own Brand customer penetration and achieving KPI's
• Drive top line sales growth and end to end margin on new and existing products in collaboration with CM, Finance and Marketing.
• Interpret trends, seek out innovation and analyze data to support strategic objectives
• Monitor penny profit in comparison to national brand, ensuring retail gap rules are in place, develop and drive action plans to course correct
• Work cross functionally with Product Developers, Regulatory Managers, QA Specialists, Design, Operations and Marketing to deliver products from concept to shelf.
• Create brand equity by adhering to brand standards for product, packaging and design
• Manage the sourcing and costing of Own Brand products including procurement of new suppliers, negotiation of new and existing portfolio costs, and supplier compliance with Sobeys Inc strategies and policies.

Cost outcomes must satisfy required retails and penny profit thresholds.

• Monitor commodity trends, currency and logistics fluctuations in collaboration with the national strategic sourcing team to ensure best costing is obtained
• Execute national supplier agreements, manage cost reduction initiatives and monitor performance of Own Brands to optimize total costs
• Maintain integrity of database files as primary data manager

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What you have to offer :

• An Undergraduate Degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Previous Project Management experience
• Previous experience in seafood or fresh categories, a strong asset
• Strong retail product knowledge
• Proficiency in Excel, Tableau and SAP

We offer teammates competitive total compensation packages that will vary by role and location. 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 or monitored for accuracy by our organization.

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.

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.

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