Ready to Transform Retail? Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canadas Top 100 employers where your unique contributions drive success. Responsibilities and Qualifications Act as a customers regular point of contact and manage the endtoend client relationship from AE handoff through to campaign completion. Develop and maintain sales collateral (e.g., pitch decks, discovery decks, inventory guide, advertiser guidelines, FY campaign plans) to support the sales team & ensure supplier knowledge and understanding. Collaborate with crossfunctional teams, including planning, ad product, and data science. Work closely with Customer success and product teams to ensure alignment of sales strategies and materials with overall business objectives. Tailor client proposals to address specific client needs and opportunities, ensuring they are compelling and relevant to the specific account based on sales insights, historical performance, and industry trends. Responsible for leading and coordinating the forecasting of audience options and sizing to maximize reach and performance. Responsible for leading and coordinating with the Loyalty team on Scene+ deal sizing and revenue forecasting. Provide account insights: Collaborate with retail insights data specialist to provide actionable insights for accounts that inform sales tactics and performance, helping to refine sales collateral and accounts advertising strategies. Proactively prospect new opportunities for strategy to be better optimised towards crossfunctional and businessrelated opportunities (i.e. shopper marketing, merchants etc). Proven sales strategy skills with the ability to create tailored proposals for advertisers. Strong understanding of ad channels and platforms as well as measurement capabilities and methodologies. Proven ability to perform in a fastpaced growth environment. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to perform insightsbased / analytical selling. Proven ability to problemsolve creative solutions and establish a path forward in a new business environment. Previous account management experience. Strong analytical, decisionmaking, project management, and communication skills. Handson knowledge of different media buying platforms, media investment strategies, and advertising products. What You Have To Offer Mandatory: 3+ years of work experience in a sales strategyrelated role at an agency, adtech company, media network, or media publisher. Strong understanding of digital advertising, including different campaign objectives (e.g., conversion, awareness), advertising formats (video, search, banner), and placements (e.g., on site, on email, instore). Experience developing sales collateral at an agency, adtech, media network, or media publisher. Familiarity with retailer / grocer / CPG. Strong written communication skills. 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 Comprehensive Benefits Package with health and dental coverage, life insurance, and short and longterm 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% InStore Discount at participating banners, plus additional discount programs. Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP), giving you the opportunity to invest in the companys success. Learning and Development Resources to support your career growth. Parental Leave TopUp 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 opportunityincluding expected range of compensation in accordance with Pay Transparency Legislation where requiredplease click the Im interested button above. Individual Compensation is determined based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity within the range provided. External websites may share our organization''s job postings which includes compensation information based on similar roles and market benchmarks. These figures are provided for general comparison purposes only and are not issued or verified by our organization. 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. We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support efficiencies in the candidate screening, assessment, and recruitment processes. These AI tools do not make hiring decisions on behalf of the Company; these decisions are made by our Hiring Teams. 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! Please note: Successful candidates will be required to provide documentation to prove their legal ability to work in the position during the onboarding process. Documentation will be assessed by the employer prior to commencement of work. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Account Strategist - 12 month contract