Buyer Coordinator Full Time

Job title: Buyer Coordinator

Company: Sobeys

Job description: Requisition ID: 187320
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Construction – West
Travel Requirements: 0 – 10%
Job Type: Part-TimeCountry: Canada (CA)
Province: Alberta
City: CalgaryEmbark 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 contractHere’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

#LI-MB1#hybridAt 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.

Expected salary:

Location: Calgary, AB

Job date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:45:57 GMT

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