Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: EPMO Delivery
Travel Requirements: 0 – 10%
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario
City: Mississauga
Location: Tahoe Office
Postal Code: L4W 0C7
Our family of 127,000 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
At Sobeys, we are fostering our deep capabilities and capacity to successfully lead and execute strategic projects across the organization.
Through Project Horizon, we have seen our business plans and goals coming to life in meaningful ways, leading us to where we are today.
As we embark on our ambitious journey to become the most innovative grocery retailer, building a strong governance framework of disciplined processes, systems, and teams that drives execution excellence is paramount to our success going forward.
We currently have an opportunity for a Director Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) Delivery reporting to the VP, EPMO.
What you will get to do in this fast-paced role:
The primary responsibilities of this role are to manage the process methods, practices, and governance required to plan, manage and execute strategic initiative portfolio with excellence. In addition, the EPMO Delivery.
The Director is acting as a business partner to functions or lines of business, supporting the prioritization process, building and maintaining the 3-year roadmap.
Developing high-performance talent is at the center of the EPMO Delivery Director role.
This is a highly visible role supporting all levels of stakeholders across the business.
What your resume will include and demonstrate to us:
Minimum 7+ years’ experience as a Project Management Office leader, budget management and dashboard reporting; proven record of innovative thinking, and delivering projects with excellence.
Minimum 5+ years’ experience as a Project Manager – managing complex multi-faceted cross-functional programs, working grocery retail, merchandising, store operations, IT technologies, managing global projects and continuously driving and delivering initiatives.
Tenacious and willing to support the team during peak volumes and workloads with various activities.
Demonstrated experience creating and institutionalizing an Enterprise PMO function for an organization; a passion for Continuous Improvement
Strong in process management and controls to minimize risks exposure
Interest and passion for people development
Experience in budget management and reforecasting to support annual planning and lead monthly reforecasting for project budgets
Extensive experience with traditional and innovative project management processes, techniques, tools across agile, waterfall, iterative methods associated tools
Strong Proficiency in MS Office specifically MS Excel
Sound organizational, analytical, judgement, and decision-making skills, with proven abilities in problem-solving
Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to build and maintain relationships
Excellent oral and written communication skills for the development of strategy, guidelines, policies, standards, and best practices
Knowledge of large ERP systems (i.e. SAP) is preferred
University undergraduate degree in related discipline or equivalent
PMP (required) or PgMP (nice to have) designation
MBA (nice to have)
Bilingualism in English and French is an asset.
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a leading Canadian company with a clear vision and focus. If you feel that this describes the kind of work you want to do, and you are excited about what Sobeys has to offer, then we look forward to reviewing your application. Please ensure that you take the time to ensure your profile shows us why you’re the most qualified applicant for the role.
Sobeys offers our employees many valuable benefits such as:
Growing organization
Competitive salary
Ongoing Training & Development
Opportunity for internal mobility to other departments and/or promotions (for employees who are strong performers)
Sobeys is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process. While all responses are appreciated only those being considered for interviews will be acknowledged.
We appreciate the interest from the Staffing industry, however, respectfully request no calls or unsolicited resumes from Agencies
Sobeys is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.
While all responses are appreciated only those being considered for interviews will be acknowledged.
We appreciate the interest from the Staffing industry however respectfully request no calls or unsolicited resumes from Agencies.
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