Supply Chain Planner; New Graduates

Introduction

Working at Wonderbrands, there is never a dull moment! As a successful company that is continually growing there is always challenging yet rewarding work to be a part of.

We have an “entrepreneurial” mindset which encourages all our team members to use their own “creativity” and “out of the box” thinking to come up with solutions and new ideas.

Wonderbrands is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads. We are the makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. We have a network of 14 Bakery Manufacturing facilities across Canada.

Our Next Gen Talent Program Vision and Mission:

Empowering the Next Generation to create future leaders

The Wonderbrands Next Gen Talent Program supports high‑potential recent graduates as they develop into the next generation of leaders. At Wonderbrands, we believe in home-grown talent and cultivating an entrepreneurial, innovative culture where curiosity, bold thinking, and continuous improvement are embedded in everything we do.

Come join us on our journey to become the world’s great baker!

• We believe in Home Grown Talent, accelerated career growth with leadership training à Unleashing Your Potential
• Many of our team members who joined us through similar “new graduate” programs were able to accelerate their career growth and reach high levels in our organization within a few years of joining us
• Competitive compensation, health benefits, and a generous flexible medical/health spending account
• Employer matching pension program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - restaurants, gyms, shopping etc.

Wonderbrands supply planners will report into a team leader, supply planning or a manager, supply planning. Supply planners are responsible for (not in order):

• The detailed master planning of primarily fresh baked goods (breads, rolls, bagels) with some inventoried frozen SKUs, short and long term.
• Achieving and maintaining set KPI levels for fill rate, inventory targets and other established metrics.
• Open communication, collaboration and engagement with WB key team members including Logistics, Finance, Manufacturing, Customer Center of Excellence, Procurement and Product Life Management.
• Participating in continuous improvement goals. This role is in a FAST-paced environment.

Coverage over long weekends as required, including statutory holiday periods.

On-call availability after regular working hours to respond to urgent supply, inventory, or delivery escalations.

Location:

1425 The Queensway, Etobicoke, Ontario

Flexible work schedule including holidays and weekends - business needs may require your involvement outside of regular working hours.

• Short-term daily and long-term weekly master planning and all related activities for a specified product category (bread, rolls, alternatives, frozen) including timely distribution of information.
• Short and long term analysis for capacity and inventory requirements.
• Maintain and improve fill rate and financial obligations (including post-production waste) as set by WB leadership.
• Understand, identify and root cause KPI misses for opportunities to improve trends.
• Participation and/or leadership in key meetings as required.
• Develop key relationships with other WB team members including Manufacturing sites, Logistics and Demand Planning.
• Planning and replenishing central ingredients and packaging items on a weekly basis using planning tool/SAP MRP.
• Create Purchase orders with the suppliers and monitor weekly Purchase orders which are due for delivery.
• Work with PLM and bakeries for the new project launches and ensure timely placement of Pos to the suppliers, ensuring inventory…