Manager Procurement
Requisition ID: 193546
Career Group: Distribution Centre Management
Job Category: Central Production
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: British Columbia
City: Delta
Location: 5282 BC Central Kitchen
Postal Code: V4G 1C2
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?
Merchandising - located in Delta, BC, our British Columbia Central Kitchen has an opening for a Procurement Manager. The successful candidate will be able to regularly demonstrate exceptional People Leadership with the ability to motivate and drive change. In addition, they will be dedicated to achieving flawless execution for a new site.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Schedule production, order ingredients, packaging, and supplies.
- Maintain superior customer service levels with both internal and external customers.
- Collaborate with Backstage procurement teams and other Central Kitchen Buyer Planners
- Production planning and inventory management, working closely with Module Managers.
- Ability to coach and lead work teams to achieve performance, quality, and service goals.
- Cultivate a positive and innovative work environment.
- Identify and analyze areas for cost reduction or margin improvement.
- Ensure adherence to Sobeys policies, procedures, and practices.
- Strive for continuous improvement.
- Drive the management of supplier compliance with Sobeys Inc policies & procedures
- Administrative duties related to production, shipping, and quality performance.
- Drive efficiencies to leverage total spend and optimize costs.
- Drive the continuous effort of sourcing out new business partners to lower overall Sobeys Inc costs.
What you have to offer:
- 4 year business degree or related field.
- 8+ years’ progressively responsible experience in Procurement.
- Experience in Manufacturing, Distribution, Culinary or Retail is an asset.
- Excellent organizational skills with a high degree of initiative and flexibility.
- Experience in production planning, scheduling, purchasing, and cost analysis.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and production planning software.
- Resourcefulness and critical thinking skills.
- Critical thinking, analytical and detail oriented, preferred.
- Strong knowledge of Accounting Software.
- Understanding of manufacturing regulations regarding safety, quality, HACCP, GFSI, Federal Regulations and GMP’s.
- Ability to analyze cost performance data to improve operations and reduce costs.
- Must be comfortable at giving and receiving open feedback.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.
The salary range for this position is $91,000.00 - $126,000.00 . We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure that you are paid fairly and competitively.
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.
We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support efficiencies in the candidate screening, assessment, and recruitment processes. These AI tools do not make hiring decisions on behalf of the Company, these decisions are made by our Hiring Teams.
Please note: successful candidates will be required to provide documentation to prove their legal ability to work in the position during the onboarding process. Documentation will be assessed by the employer prior to commencement of work.