Director, Supply Chain (Raw Material & Inventory Planning)

Director, Supply Chain (Raw Material & Inventory Planning) – Manufacturing / Food / Beverage and similar

Industry: Food Beverage Manufacturing (multiple sites)– (Fresh, Frozen, Processing and similar)

Demand & Supply Planning, Material Planning, Warehousing, Logistics & Transportation

Location: Milton – Guelph- Cambridge, ON area

Base Salary: $130,000- $165,000 bonus benefits

Permanent full-time

Minimum 3 Days on site, expected to be 3-4 days on site initially

Some travel involved within Canada 15%

Our client is a very well-established food manufacturing processing & packaging organisation with 3- 4 sites in Canada. They have a job open for Director- Supply Chain (Raw Material & Inventory Planning, Demand & Supply Planning, Purchasing, Warehousing, Transportation) to be based out of their facility located in Milton – Guelph- Cambridge, ON area. This is a hands-on strategic yet daily tactical leadership role to lead Material Planners Buyers, Inventory Planners, Warehouse personnel, Logistics & Supply Chain in a fairly manual process supporting all plant sites for consensus forecasting, central material & capacity planning, purchasing, inventory warehousing & logistics. All candidates must have established success leading manufacturing plant level Supply Chain supporting Material & Capacity Planning, consensus forecasting. There is some travel involved domestically in Canada 15%

Director, Supply Chain will be fully responsible for the end-to-end supply chain of 3-4 manufacturing sites for short shelf-life temperature-controlled food processing packaging working closely leading sourcing, selection and performance management of vendors for raw materials ingredients and packaging, establish and manage supply chain KPIs, streamline lead-times and set-up Supply Chain SOPs & Best Practices. You will work with the logistics partners, 3rd party carriers for inbound and outbound freight nationally,be responsible for raw materials planning (packaging, ingredients, MRO, MRP), finished goods Inventory, Warehousing, Transportation & Purchasing. This is a Continuous Improvement strategic yet daily tactical role, presently with fairly manual processes, responsible for establishing short term and long-term strategy while providing leadership, coaching, mentoring and performance management to 4-5 direct reports, leading them through recent ERP implementation.

Director, Supply Chain will ideally have a minimum of 5-7 years’ of leadership experience in plant level manufacturing in Fresh / frozen / ready to eat Food, Produce, Dairy, Protein, Meat, Ready -to-Eat, Fresh, Daily or Produce, managing plant level supply chain including sourcing and contracts strong analytical numbers and cost driven mindset, excellent analytical skills – Excel, Power BI and similar and established success in laying down Supply Chain strategy yet manging daily tactical functions. Bachelor’s degree, experience with food manufacturing plant level supply chain helps. Familiarity with GMP, CFIA, and other food safety compliance is a MUST. Ability to work on-site 3-4 days initially and be able to travel 10-15% nationally is a MUST.

Qualified applicants already in the GTA / KW area ideally with short shelf-life products experience, minimum 4-5 years of Supply Chain leadership experience in manufacturing are invited to forward their resumes in MS Word format to Please write “Director, Supply Chain (Raw Material & Inventory Planning)” in the subject line of your e mail.

While we thank all applicants for your interest, only the most qualified candidates will be contacted due to volume of applicants.