Specialist, Store Communications

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.

The Specialist, Store Communications role actively participates in the planning, development, and execution of communication for operations, promotional activities, customer experience programs, merchandising programs, and business led initiatives. The Specialist role ensures the communication direction to stores is in-sync with operational and business best practices.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

Develop consistent, actionable, store-ready communications for English Canada stores.

• Write and execute on business unit yearly communications plans. Produce and distribute communications for operations, project communications, and other business units as needed.
• Participate in the creation of collaborative tools for communication between Retail and Office/Backstage – including establishing and maintaining SharePoint site(s), developing processes/procedures for consolidating communication from various channels.

Partner with key stakeholders to develop and execute communication strategies for committee initiatives, projects, and programs.

• Support the development of project-related communication plans through participation on project team working committees, providing guidance on Store Communication best practices and development of Store Communication plans to ensure stores understand “the why” and “the how” to successfully execute the initiative at store level.

Support ongoing optimization of Store Communications tools, processes, and channels.

• Recommend, develop plans, and execute improvement opportunities for communication.

What you have to offer:

• You have an undergraduate degree or higher.
• You have 5+ years communication experience. (Experience in Retail Operations, Merchandising, Marketing or working knowledge of the retail industry is an asset).
• You have experience in developing and implementing successful communication plans.
• You have strong planning skills and the ability to prioritize and manage conflicting demands to meet deadlines.
• You believe relationships are important and work to build strong, collaborative partnerships with your team members and other colleagues.
• This is a bilingual role. The candidate will be expected to work with peers in other provinces in the development and implementation of tools and processes across Canada, as well as provide support to Sobeys employees across Canada.
• You are able to navigate successfully and positively in a fast-paced, high growth environment where change occurs rapidly.

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 is designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially, and emotionally.

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, go 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.