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Sobeys is embarking on a transformative journey to become the most innovative grocery retailer, driving execution excellence through disciplined processes, systems, and teams. Through our Project Horizon initiative, we are bringing our business plans to life and seeking dynamic individuals to help us achieve 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 operate with Project Director–level accountability. This includes leading large, complex initiatives with enterprise impact, providing executive decision support, and managing escalations beyond project execution. The role offers high visibility and requires strong influence with senior stakeholders, financial stewardship at scale, and a sharp focus on accountability and ROI across the portfolio.

What You’ll Focus On Project Support Model and Governance

• Develop governance frameworks and support models that ensure agility, adaptability, and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Lead initiation, planning, monitoring, execution, and closing of multiple complex projects simultaneously, with accountability for integrated outcomes across initiatives.
• Manage dependencies, sequencing, and cumulative risk across programs.
• Collaborate with Business Leads to create project charters, ensuring alignment with business objectives and scope.
• Define Critical Success Factors with stakeholders to ensure delivery on time, on budget, and within scope.
• Build detailed work packages by sequencing activities, estimating durations, and defining roles and responsibilities.
• Establish realistic deadlines, develop change management and communication plans, and manage project financials with a focus on forecast accuracy, cost control, and variance management.
• Drive milestone deliverables by maintaining clear plans, controlling timelines, and empowering teams to deliver.

Elevate Strategic Business Partnership

• Position the TMO as a strategic business partner fully integrated into decision-making processes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, embedded in planning and decision forums, supporting trade-off decisions and enterprise priorities.
• Provide tailored project management solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Enforce Stakeholder Accountability and ROI Focus

• Build a culture of accountability by rigorously evaluating business cases and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
• Implement tracking mechanisms to monitor performance against defined metrics.
• Provide portfolio-level visibility into delivery health, risk, and value realization to support executive decision-making.

What You Have To Offer

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10+ years of project management experience, including at least 8 years leading complex, cross-functional programs.
• Proven ability to manage multi-million-dollar budgets with strong financial acumen, including forecasting, cost control, and variance management.
• Experience managing challenging stakeholders and influencing senior executives.
• Strong problem-solving agility using both traditional and innovative project management methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop team members while uplifting delivery capability across the enterprise.
• Executive presence and enterprise perspective, with the ability to operate confidently in high-visibility forums.
• Exposure to Digital Experience Platforms and Cybersecurity is an asset.
• PMP certification or MBA preferred.
• Bilingualism in English and French is considered an asset, as this role supports collaboration and implementation across multiple provinces and provides support to Sobeys employees nationwide.

Who We Are 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.

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.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is fuelled by our purpose and values. It shapes our culture and drives business success. As a family nurturing families, we embed DE&I into everything we do. We know that it takes open minds and respect for distinct perspectives to create engaging workplaces, inclusive customer experiences and strong community partnerships. 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.

What We Offer Our Total Rewards package is designed to help our teammates thrive—physically, financially, and emotionally. While offerings vary by role and employment type (full-time, part-time, contractual), eligible teammates may receive:

• Comprehensive Benefits Package with health and dental coverage, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Access to Virtual Health Care and an Employee and Family Assistance Program for personalized support.
• Retirement and Savings Plan to help you build financial security.
• 10% In-Store Discount at participating banners, plus additional discount programs.
• Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP), giving you the opportunity to invest in the company’s success.
• Learning and Development Resources to support your career growth.
• Parental Leave Top-Up to assist growing families.
• Paid Vacation and Days Off to help you recharge.

Sobeys is committed to providing a compensation structure that is flexible, equitable and competitive in the market to enable performance and growth. To learn more about this opportunity—including expected range of compensation in accordance with Pay Transparency Legislation where required —please click the “I’m interested” button above. Individual Compensation is determined based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity within the range provided.

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To drive our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture 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.

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 please apply by the posting end date indicated above. We encourage candidates to submit a resume and take the time to ensure that their application highlights what makes them uniquely qualified for this opportunity!