Execution Specialist

Requisition ID: 181089
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Atlantic Operations Execution Support
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Newfoundland and Labrador
City: Mount Pearl
Location: Home Office - NL
Postal Code: A1N 4S6

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?

Our Atlantic Operations network of retail stores in Western NFLD is searching a Specialist who will focus on supporting their locations in Non-Fresh & Fresh! This role will bring our company values to life; Customer Driven, Results Oriented and People Powered through supporting retail operations to ensure alignment in processes, impact, timing and coordination of initiatives; implementing change while minimizing negative impact to the stores. So, if you love working with operations and are dedicated to the needs of our operations teams when executing business initiatives, and always look for ways to continuously improve our practices and processes…. This role is for YOU!

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

• Based on priorities and tactical plan defined and communicated by Director Execution Support (DES), guide, coach and mentor Department Managers in-store, driving elevated operational execution and profit improvement
• Share and reinforce profit improvement plan KPIs to Store and Department Managers
• Regularly review performance of priority stores/departments with Store and Department Managers based on KPIs established with a focus on exceeding expectations
• Problem solve with DES, MROs, Store and Department Managers to address department challenges, supporting plans and training to ensure sustainable improvement
• Field questions from Department Managers on execution standards and best practices to support sales growth and cost controls
• Train and coach Department Managers and teams ensuring flawless execution and implementation of industry leading retail department standards for areas of focus
• Coach, mentor and motivate Department Managers and teams ensuring sustainability of results through consistently high customer service standards
• Act as a resource for Store and Department Managers on specialized area of expertise.
• Provide feedback to DES and store teams on best practices and continually assess effectiveness of standards and provide feedback for improvement
• Share innovation and best practices
• Provide Store/Department Managers and DES insights to support people planning, including identification of high potential employees
• Working with MRO / L&D support training objectives
• Champion safety practices in stores and ensure they are being maintained in collaboration with store teams, Integrated Health Management and Food Safety

What you have to offer:

• Ability to coach, mentor and develop Department Managers
• Deep knowledge or retail operations processes and execution standards
• High degree of financial and business acumen, strategic thinking and ability to collaborate with stakeholders to positively influence meaningful change
• Ability to make data driven decisions and drive positive change
• Experience leading Store and/or Department Managers
• An undergraduate degree and a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience
• Experience working with corporate and franchise store network

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Why work at Sobeys?

• Flexible hours and teleworking policy;
• Welcoming and friendly environment;
• Possibility of advancement;
• Company involved in its community;
• Education and professional development policy;
• Employee discounts at our merchants via the Scène card;

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.

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Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person