Lead Team Inventory Management

**Requisition ID**: 187528
**Career Group**: Distribution Centre Management
**Job Category**: Inventory Control
**Travel Requirements**: 0 - 10%

**Job Type**: Full-Time

**Country**: Canada (CA)
**Province**: Ontario
**City**: Whitby
**Location**: 3016 Whitby RSC
**Postal Code**: L1N 9S1

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?**:
Manage all functions related to inventory within the RSC as well as the operational integrity of the EXE WMS. Actively contributes to a positive and productive working environment.

**Here’s where you’ll be focusing**:

- Coordinate daily activities of RSC administration personnel including Shipping, Receiving and Payroll Administrators
- Work closely with Dispatch Team and Logistics to ensure that all delivery documentation is available for execution of on-time deliveries
- Collaborate with the Inventory Control Manager and Operations Managers to ensure business goals and daily targets are achieved
- Drive consistent practices across three shifts
- Cross dock tracking and invoicing
- Complete and compile weekly reports as required
- Complete / edit daily timecards and scheduling for all clerical support staff
- Investigate and respond to various queries from customers, vendors, retail, procurement, and corporate office
- Store and retrieve archived RSC clerical records
- Coach, counsel, and discipline as required
- Contribute to positive employee engagement and connection to Sobeys mission and purpose
- Comply with all RSC audit expectations (HACCP and OH&S)
- Work within team to identify opportunities for continuous improvement
- Compliance with all Company food safety standards, guidelines and procedures
- Other duties which may be assigned

**What you have to offer**:
Required:

- Previous supervisory experience
- Post secondary Diploma or equivalent work experience

Preferred:

- Undergraduate Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain or Logistics

Technical Skills
- Required:

- Working knowledge of EXE, SAP, KRONOS, C3 and Microsoft Office
- Experience in a distribution centre

KPI’s
- HACCP results
- On-time handoff
- Customer service response time and results

Competencies
- Interpersonal Skills
- Job Knowledge
- Decision Making/Problem Solving
- Managing for Results
- People Development
- People Management
- Team Leadership

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

Our Total Rewards programs goes well beyond your paycheque:

- Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, as well as life insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment 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, making your purchases more affordable*.
- Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
- Paid Vacation
- Eligible only after working a set number of hours/days worked.

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.