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Sobeys Buyer Coordinator in Calgary, Alberta
Requisition ID: 187320
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Construction - West
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Part-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Alberta
City: Calgary
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. 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?
This is for a 12 month contract
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
Familiarize and review project scope, review equipment budget and schedule with Project Manager
Buying for projects, including rollout projects, Create budgets based on project equipment list and current project fixture plan
Reallocate equipment - Working directly with the Project Manager and or Contractor to redeploy surplus equipment to a warehouse/other store
Create and issue purchase orders for equipment, parts, services, and smallwares.
Ensure that purchased equipment is conforming to layouts/standards/requirements
Revise existing POs based on the vendors' and FA requests - cost, dates, items
Freight management - track delivery of created orders to ensure on-time receiving
Investigate late or missed items with the carrier
Control inventory of received/staged equipment for projects
Remove used equipment from finished stores or temporary storages
Request and analyze quotations, check/compare them with the system/layouts
Revise budgets based on the layout changes
Provide cut sheets to Design, Architect, PMs request specifications from the vendors
Download SAP data to work with available procurement items
Report to Project Managers about purchasing/spending
Maintain close coordination with PMs, vendors/carriers, store staff to ensure timely buying/receiving
Negotiate delivery dates and terms with suppliers
Assets validation with Fixed Assets/Stores/Maintenance
Visits stores to assess existing, check received/stored/installed/missing equipment
Visit warehouses to leverage surplus equipment
Return equipment due to layout changes, wrong items supplied, etc.
Create and track capital appropriation requests for all minor projects, as requested, issue purchase orders, release related invoices using the company accounting software SAP.
Create and Track change orders for projects
Progress Draws- Receive the breakdown of each General Contractors contract to make sure it is matching the PO set up in CAMS by our contract Manager. Once any needed changes have been sent back to the General Contractor and updated on their submission, complete the draw template and submit the draws for payment.
Familiarize and keep up to date on owner supplied equipment date required for projects
Submit for management approval, change order requests and reporting cost
Review and evaluate all project related invoices including monthly progress claims
Other duties as required
What you have to offer:
Degree, diploma or certificate from post-secondary institution and at least 5 years of related business experience preferably in the grocery retail construction industry or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Fundamental understanding of retail operations and disciplines of construction related to retail commercial developments
General construction knowledge
Retail grocery experience
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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. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.
We offer a competitive compensation package, which varies by role. 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 our organization nor monitored for accuracy.
We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. 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.
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.