Director, Supply Chain Capabilities

Requisition ID: 188490
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Supply Chain Systems & Capabilities
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.

Reporting to the Vice President of Integrated Supply Chain, the Director, Supply Chain Capabilities position leads ideation, development and implementation of a multitude of Supply Chain projects spanning across Safety, Continuous Improvement, Labour Contingency, Process Optimization, Teammate Engagement, Training and Technology Innovation across the Sobeys Retail Support Centre (RSC) distribution network.

This leadership role promotes collaboration and alignment across the Supply Chain organization to leverage Sobeys scale and industry best practices. With a focus on productivity aided through innovation, this position employs market knowledge and Supply Chain expertise, to build a best-in-class Supply Chain servicing the needs of our Stores and Customers.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

• Provide vision and strategy to drive improvements to Supply Chain process, systems, safety, tools and metrics across the national network
• Lead team to analyze current business processes and performance, identifying areas of potential improvement and design and implement new strategies for process improvement
• Develop and Manage supply chain policies, focused on improving processes and compliance
• Develop and Manage training strategy for the Supply Chain network, including operational training and talent development
• Lead cross functional and cross business unit teams focusing on strategic projects to bring value and create efficiency in supply chain processes
• Partner with senior leaders, key stakeholders and subject matter experts to drive national process harmonization
• Communicate & present progress reports and improvement project outcomes to senior management
• Lead and manage Business Continuity goals through robust contingency plans covering various operation disruptions including labour, weather and systems
• Build an innovation focused culture, fostering critical thinking amongst internal and external teammates
• Establish a vision and strategy for the future state of Supply Chain systems
• Lead and manage several aspects of Supply Chain Transformation, delivering a multi-year improvement program focused on implementation of an integrated digital road map

What you have to offer:

• Proven success in a senior leadership role managing complex Supply chain operations, ideally in a grocery environment with multiple sites
• An Undergraduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
• Strong leadership, problem solving and organizational skills. Strong ability to create relationships, work collaboratively with a sense of urgency to support our operational teams with solutions.
• Decision making skills with a proven ability to influence others
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Familiar with supply chain management systems
• Strong planning and analysis skills

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.

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.