Food Manufacturer – Head of Supply Chain – Montreal

Our client is a fast-growing, well-established food manufacturer headquartered in the Montreal area with manufacturing facilities in and outside the province. The company manufactures and distributes branded, co-pack and private label food products for distribution throughout Canada and the US. The company boasts a dominant market position in several of its product categories which continue to be expanded upon.

Privately owned, our client has a rich tradition of innovation and an impeccable track record of long-term growth and profitability. Over the past five years alone our client has significantly grown revenues while successfully undertaking significant expansion initiatives. A loyal, committed and entrepreneurial team makes this all possible.

With further growth and expansion on the immediate horizon, the firm is seeking to hire a seasoned individual to lead its Supply Chain organization which will have the specific responsibility of ensuring that organization continues to execute and scale to meet growth.

Scope of the Position

The Head of Supply Chain will be responsible for all matters relating to the company’s development and implementation of supply chain strategies to support the firm’s growth goals. The individual will be responsible for supply chain processes, infrastructure and enablers and will drive to develop capabilities and initiatives that will enhance supply chain performance over a multi-year horizon.

The Head of Supply Chain will lead senior management routines to monitor and enhance core supply chain performance, including delivering against product and service level agreements and cost objectives. The individual will hold accountability for financial, service, and quality metrics in the supply chain.

This is an outstanding opportunity that features:

• Strong industry and market leadership
• Committed ownership
• Highly innovative and motivated culture
• Growing market opportunity
• An opportunity to make a real difference
• Succession opportunity

Functional Tasks

• Develop and measure KPIs for the areas of responsibility.
• Ensure effective forecasting, master planning, scheduling and deployment of finished goods to the marketplace at targeted service, inventory and customer satisfaction levels.
• Review existing supply chain processes and performance and make recommendations for improvement as required.
• On approval of recommendations implement said plans across all facets of supply chain including master planning, logistics, order management and IT process optimization.
• Ensure that supply chain framework is lean, cost effective, resilient and scalable for future growth.
• Provide routine reports, variance analysis, special analysis and recommend corrective action as required.
• Track forecast accuracy and consumption versus forecast for all markets
• Monitor the KPIs and metrics associated with final shipments to customers to prevent/ reduce out of stock situations, watching for trends impacting forecasting needs or marketing changes impacting forecasting requirements.
• Monitor reporting feeds into for optimization of data used in various analysis functions
• Work closely with IT to optimize use of data for Inventory Planning and Purchasing
• Drive logistics and warehousing strategy and execution
• Ensures effective long-term capacity and supply network plan is in place in support of business’s demand plans. Conduct capacity and associated studies to ensure demand plan can be met at lowest net-landed cost.
• Support the delivery of transportation and warehousing operation plan. Ensure cost-effective daily replenishment and resource/monitor cost reduction initiatives in support of improved logistics costs.
• Develop planning input for Marketing, Sales and Operations planning meetings
• Monitoring data management to keep accurate product, contract, pricing and invoicing information.
• Providing accurate routing information to ensure that delivery times and locations are coordinated.

Competency Profile

The following competencies listed below define the role of Head of Supply Chain – Montreal/Toronto:

Planning & Objective Setting

Systematic in approach to work. Produces action plans in which objectives are defined and steps for achieving…