Requisition ID: 181482
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Technology Transformation Management
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario; Nova Scotia; Québec
City: Mississauga / Stellarton / Montreal
Location: Tahoe Office
Postal Code: L4W 0C7
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?
Senior Project Manager
Location: Mississauga, ON; Stellarton, NS
About Sobeys: Sobeys is embarking on a transformative journey to become the most innovative grocery retailer, driving execution excellence through disciplined processes, systems, and teams. Our Project Horizon initiative is bringing our business plans to life, and we are seeking dynamic individuals to join our team in achieving our ambitious goals.
Role Overview: As a Senior Project Manager within our Transformation Management Office, reporting to the Director of Technology Transformation Management, you will lead the execution of large, complex projects crucial to Sobeys' strategic objectives. This role offers high visibility and requires adeptness in influencing senior stakeholders, strong financial acumen, and a keen focus on stakeholder accountability and ROI.
Here's where you'll be focusing:
Key Responsibilities:
Project Support Model and Governance:
- Develop a support model and governance framework for your projects leveraging your experience and internal best practices, ensuring agility, adaptiveness, and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Create clear and attainable project objectives, build the project requirements; Lead the initiation, planning, controlling, monitoring, execution and closing of one or more large complex projects simultaneously.
- Collaborate with Business Lead to create project charter to obtain a thorough understanding of the business objectives and define and agree on project scope with all stakeholders.
- Agree on Critical Success Factors with key stakeholders to deliver projects on time, on budget within agreed upon scope.
- Collaboratively build activities or work packages by sequence and duration while defining roles and responsibilities
- Realistically establish deadlines, build a change management and communication plan to be followed and manage the project financial status through day-to-day cost tracking.
- Define success and manage milestone deliverables as scheduled by controlling deadlines with clear plans and empowering the team to be responsible for delivery.
- Implement dynamic processes to cater to evolving project needs, fostering efficiency, transparency, and accountability.
Elevate Strategic Business Partnership:
- Position the TMO as a strategic business partner, deeply integrated into decision-making processes.
- Collaborate closely with key stakeholders, offering tailored project management solutions that drive tangible business results.
Enforce Stakeholder Accountability and ROI Focus:
- Establish a culture of accountability among stakeholders, rigorously evaluating project business cases and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
- Implement robust tracking mechanisms to monitor project performance against predefined metrics, focusing on driving profitable ROI.
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What you have to offer:
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline with 10+ years of experience in project management, including at least 8 years as a Project Manager overseeing complex, cross-functional programs.
- Proficiency in managing multi-million-dollar budgets and strong financial acumen.
- Experience in managing difficult stakeholders and influencing senior executives.
- Agility in problem-solving within project management, utilizing both traditional and innovative methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability in coaching and developing team members.
- Exposure to Digital Experience Platforms and Cybersecurity would be advantageous.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or MBA preferred.
- Bilingualism in English and French would be an asset.
- The candidate will be expected to work with peers in other provinces in the development, development and implementation of tools and processes across Canada, as well as provide support to Sobeys employees across Canada.
How to Apply: If you're ready to take on a pivotal role in driving Sobeys' transformation journey and possess the required skills and experience, we'd love to hear from you! Please submit your resume and cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you're excited about this opportunity.
Join us at Sobeys and be part of a team shaping the future of grocery retail!
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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