Specialist Regulatory Affairs

Requisition ID: 182413 

Career Group: Corporate Office Careers  

Job Category: Food Safety Regulatory Affairs  

Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%

  Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA) 

Province: Québec

City: Montréal

Location: Bureau de Montréal-Nord  

Postal Code: H1G 3J5 

Our family of 131,000 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?

Collaborate with Operations, Merchandising and Marketing to ensure fresh produce labels and in-store sales materials comply with government regulations.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

• Collaborate with Operations, Merchandising and Marketing to ensure fresh 
• product labels and in-store selling materials are compliant to government regulations
• Collaborate with Retail to ensure third party certifications (e.g. organic) are achieved
• Work with Quebec trade associations to influence Quebec policy to reflectthe best interest of Sobeys and our customers
• Provide regulatory solutions and review for fresh products packaged or prepared Sobeys businesses
• Support projects and initiatives that achieve regulatory (federal/provincial/municipal) requirements of fresh merchandised products including the harmonizing of scale label formats
• Provide scale label development tools, regulatory information packages and regulatory training for fresh merchandising and operations personnel
• Liaise with government agency (federal/provincial/municipal)inspectors regarding product complaints and inquiries and seek clarity or dispute store inspections or store-label violations 
• Create and share tracking-process andmetrics for government agencies interactions (e.g. inspector store inspections and violations, product complaints, etc.)
• Provide regulatory support for Quebec operations including store third party certifications
• Provide regulatory support for national store operations in third party certifications
• Keep abreast of emerging regulatory issues in Quebec and participate in relevant Quebec trade associations
• Provide French language regulatory support

What you have to offer:

• An Undergraduate Degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience 
• knowledge of Canadian food regulations, and CFIA Guide to Food
• Labeling
• experience with government inspectors, and in recall actions
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite, and databases
• knowledge in nutrition, food chemistry, product composition, and 
• methods of analysis
• MAPAQ certification
• Bilingual The candidate will be expected to work with peers in other provinces in the expansion, development and implementation of tools and processes across Canada, as well as provide support to Sobeys employees across Canada

We offer teammates competitive total compensation packages that will vary by role and location. 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 or monitored for accuracy by our organization. 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.

Sobeys is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.

While all responses are appreciated only those being considered for interviews will be acknowledged.

We appreciate the interest from the Staffing industry however respectfully request no calls or unsolicited resumes from Agencies.