Strategic Sourcing IT Manager

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.

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The Strategic Sourcing IT Manager leads the strategic sourcing, negotiation, contracting and supplier management for a complex portfolio of services in support of the IT function within Sobeys. The purpose of the position is to create value for the IT department, reduce total cost of ownership, and leverage world-class negotiation and sourcing strategies, tools and processes, and mitigate risk through contract development for non-merchandise goods and services acquired by Sobeys.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

• Develop and execute category strategies end-to-end
• Strategically source a complex portfolio of services with emphasis in IT
• Set Direction/priorities for team on projects
• Lead and/or support manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Achieve Stakeholder’s business requirements, scope of work, and budget while effectively capturing spend and savings
• Be a trusted advisor by effectively developing and maintaining effective relationships with Stakeholders
• Develops, leads and maintains effective relationships with vendors
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in 7-step sourcing processes
• Train and coach team on sourcing best practices
• Support consistency, transparency, alignment and synergies among all Sourcing and Category Management teams
• Build and maintain deep subject matter expertise and industry knowledge within the established portfolio set of products and services
• Drive sourcing best practices and enterprise value through cross-functional influential engagement
• Support communications with cross-functional areas in establishing and sustaining this centralized sourcing function
• Closely partner with the IT team to deliver a total sourcing solution.
• Support end-to-end source-to-pay process through driving purchases through the e-Procurement tool.

What you have to offer:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 3-5 years of business experience in a purchasing, merchandising or retail environment
• Strong sourcing (IT preferred) experience and understanding of Canadian vendor landscape
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build meaningful team relationships
• Ability to develop and articulate strategies
• Experience leading procurement for relevant functions
• Deep understanding of strategic cost imperatives
• Ability to formulate savings initiatives
• Ability to formulate operating plans to meet cost targets
• Ability to build strategic relationships with designated functional leadership
• Ability to develop top talent within strategic sourcing organization

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.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates live better – physically, financially and emotionally.

• Competitive Benefits Package, 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.
• 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.