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Manager, Integrated Planning & Strategic Initiatives
Department: Technology Transformation & Portfolio Management
Reports To: Director, Integrated Planning & Strategic Initiatives
Location: Hybrid
About the Role
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full time opportunity for a Integrated Planning Manager. This role is based out of our offices located in Mississauga; ON, Stellarton; NS.
The Manager, Integrated Planning & Strategic Initiatives plays a key role in enabling coordinated enterprise planning across Technology Transformation & Portfolio Management.
Working closely with the Director, this role leads integrated planning activities across strategic priorities and select enterprise initiatives by connecting roadmap planning, investment alignment, governance coordination, initiative visibility, and business outcomes into a cohesive planning-to-value model.
The role operates as a enterprise integrator across Technology, Finance, Portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture, Program Delivery, and business stakeholders to improve planning discipline, strengthen decision-making, surface risks and trade-offs early, and improve confidence in strategic outcomes.
This is a high-impact role suited for someone who can navigate complexity, influence across functions, bring structure to enterprise planning activities, and translate strategic direction into actionable plans, governance insights, and decision-ready materials.
What You Will Do
- Lead integrated planning activities across strategic priorities and select enterprise initiatives.
- Develop and maintain integrated roadmap views, sequencing plans, governance inputs, planning assumptions, and strategic initiative visibility across assigned areas.
- Connect priorities, funding considerations, capacity implications, dependencies, risks, readiness requirements, and expected outcomes into integrated planning outputs.
- Facilitate cross-functional planning coordination across Technology, Finance, Portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture, Program Delivery, and business teams.
- Drive planning discipline, governance readiness, and alignment across strategic initiatives.
- Support executive and leadership decision-making through roadmap views, governance materials, trade-off analysis, strategic narratives, and decision-ready insights.
- Facilitate planning reviews, prioritization discussions, sequencing conversations, and governance forums.
- Maintain visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, readiness concerns, constraints, and material trade-offs across assigned strategic priorities.
- Surface and escalate issues requiring leadership attention, including sequencing conflicts, dependency risks, funding impacts, capacity constraints, and strategic alignment concerns.
- Support benefits definition, readiness planning, value tracking, and continuous improvement across the planning-to-value lifecycle.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of planning, governance, reporting, and strategic initiative management practices.
- Develop and promote consistent planning standards, templates, governance approaches, and integrated ways of working across the function.
- Provide informal leadership, coaching, and guidance across planning and strategic initiative activities as needed.
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What You Bring
- 7+ years of progressive experience in integrated planning, enterprise transformation, strategy execution, portfolio management, strategic initiatives, technology transformation, or related enterprise functions.
- Experience operating in complex, cross-functional enterprise environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Strong experience developing executive-level materials, roadmap views, governance reporting, and decision-support content.
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategic direction into integrated plans, sequencing options, governance insights, investment considerations, and initiative priorities.
- Strong understanding of enterprise governance, financial planning, resource planning, delivery management, and benefits realization concepts.
- Experience working across business and technology functions.
- Strong analytical, financial, and structured problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders and facilitate enterprise discussions.
- Experience with enterprise planning, portfolio, reporting, or delivery management tools.
- Undergraduate degree in business, technology, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- MBA, PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Prosci, or equivalent credentials are considered assets.
Leadership Capabilities
- Enterprise thinking and strategic judgment
- Integrated planning and strategic initiative leadership
- Governance and decision facilitation
- Executive communication and storytelling
- Cross-functional influence and stakeholder alignment
- Financial and investment acumen
- Structured problem solving
- Change leadership and continuous improvement
- Ability to operate effectively through ambiguity and evolving priorities
Success in This Role Looks Like
- Stronger alignment between enterprise priorities, planning activities, funding considerations, and strategic outcomes.
- Clearer roadmap integration, sequencing discipline, and governance readiness.
- Improved leadership visibility into risks, dependencies, trade-offs, readiness, and progress.
- Earlier identification and escalation of planning and initiative risks.
- Better-informed prioritization, sequencing, and investment discussions.
- Improved confidence in strategic priorities, readiness, and value realization.
- Consistent, trusted, and decision-ready planning and governance outputs.
Who we are
Sobeys is one of Canada’s leading grocery retailers, with more than 1,600 stores across all 10 provinces and banners including Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, and Lawtons Drug Stores. Our 128,000 teammates and franchise affiliates are passionate about delivering great food and exceptional experiences to our customers and communities.
Learn more about our story and culture:
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Total Rewards
We offer a Total Rewards package designed to support teammates at work and in life. Depending on role and eligibility, teammates may receive health and dental benefits, retirement and savings programs including an Employee Share Ownership Plan, a 10% in-store discount at participating banners, virtual healthcare and an Employee and Family Assistance Program, learning and development opportunities, parental leave top-up, and paid vacation.
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 the expected range of compensation in accordance with Pay Transparency Legislation where required please click the “I’m interested” or "Apply" button above. Individual compensation is determined based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity within the range provided.
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