Job Description

Requisition ID: 169803

Career Group: Corporate Office Careers

Job Category: Merchandising Analytics & Insights

Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%

Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)

Province: Ontario; Alberta

City: Calgary, Mississauga

Location: Calgary Office, Tahoe Office

Postal Code:

Our family of 134,000 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 1500 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawton's Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

All career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting.

Overview

The Manager, Merchandising Analytics and Insights - Promotion Analytics is leading a specialized team delivering informative and action-oriented insight to the business. That person serves as a trusted advisor to Merchandising leaders and must collaborate with cross-functional teams in Analytics and Insights (Operations and Marketing) and integrate with specialized technical resources that support data investigations and visualization. The Analytics and Insights - Promotion Analytics team is uncovering stories through data and must communicate often with the Merchandising function to deliver compelling presentations that propel business momentum.

Manage execution

• Manage the team in the development of analytics products (dashboards and reports) and presentations to support better decision making
• Provide analytical support, like developing views and suggesting performance measurement metrics, to help Category Management in monitoring their programs performance and take business decisions
• Use analytic capabilities and visualization tools to convert data into strategic and actionable insights
• Integrate information from multiple sources, explain methodology and best practices related to data and insight interpretation
• Guide the team to be concise in their presentations and provide: "so what", key insights, "watch outs", takeaways, opportunities, recommendations

Manage a team

• Lead and manage the Analytics and Insights - Promotion Analytics team, meet performance goals
• Manage a team responsible for the development of dashboards and reports that provide insight about business performance. Lead a diverse team specialized in the data and analytics domain (e.g. data analyst, BI specialist, data scientist, data engineer, analytics engineer, BI developer, visualization specialist and research specialist
• Manage analytics and insights specialists that will be blending historical data from internal data, industry reports, public information, field reports, research, or other inputs. The team could be:
• Working with the data from all Sobeys businesses and all regions: Full Service, Community, Discount, Convenience Stores, Pharmacy, Ecommerce, Liquor, Wholesale
• Monitoring strategies or tactics impacting sales, measuring results against targets (KPIs)
• Monitoring market conditions, competitors, customer trends, purchasing behaviors, customer perception about pricing, services, assortment, experience, brand
• Being able to manage many requests, evolving priorities, support high pace projects and partner with consultants

Key Support Accountabilities

• Expertise about interpreting pricing and promotion data, sales mix
• Active participation, like delivering a presentation and answering questions, in the various Merchandising meetings (e.g. weekly, period, quarterly reviews, season/events, planning)
• Build impactful and concise PowerPoint slides, with an executive summary, to communicate insight effectively
• Work closely with the Category Management teams to identify required KPIs
• Work with specialized technical resources in Analytics and Insight to create sophisticated report products that fit the business requirements

Position Requirements

• Bachelor or equivalent in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, or any related technical field in analytics, a must. Advanced degree an advantage
• Minimum 5 years of management and related work experience
• Minimum 5 years of combined experiences in analytics or supporting business: insight specialist, managing sales, pricing, promotions, space planning, marketing, operations, replenishment, logistic, data governance, corporate strategy
• Experience in supporting Merchandising and Category Management a significant advantage
• Experience at a large grocery retailer a significant advantage
• Knowledge of Market Research Data from NielsenIQ, IRI, Numerator, Shopper Intelligence, Mintel, Environics, and others
• Passionate and inspirational leader
• Great communication and presentation skills, with ability to identify, simplify and communicate insights, as well as delivering actionable stories
• French language ability a plus
• Great interpersonal skills, ability to develop credible relationships across a wide spectrum of internal and external stakeholders
• Experience in a complex, cross-functional organization where the team needs to collaborate and integrate with other teams across many disciplines
• Proficiency with MS Office 365, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience with data exploration, data cleaning and Big Data technologies an asset
• Experience with analytical tools and programming languages (e.g. Databricks, Azure Synapse, Tableau, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Alteryx, SAS, SQL, Python, etc) an asset

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