Supply Planner - Jobs in Florenceville-Bristol, NB

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Position Title: Supply PlannerPosition Type: Regular - Full-TimePosition Location: Florenceville MainGrade: Grade 04Requisition ID: 17519McCain Foods has an opportunity for a Supply Planner within our North American Supply Planning group.The Supply Planner is responsible for creating a detailed production plan as well as deploying the inventory to Distribution Centers to ensure balanced network inventory levels, supply chain costs and service levels. This position will communicate the detailed production plan to key stakeholders, enable and maintain effective planning processes, manage performance against key supply chain performance indicators, serve as project member for various projects, resolve slow moving, aged, obsolete, dilution and discontinued skus as well as lead inventory optimization projects.The Supply Planner is a highly collaborative role that interacts with Customer Service, Demand Planning, Operations, Quality Control, Accounting, Agriculture, Transportation, Sales, Marketing, Procurement and Supply planning.This role reports to the Senior Manager, Potato Product Supply NA and is located in our Florenceville-Bristol, NB office.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Creates a production schedule that satisfies customer demand with optimal inventory levels and resource utilization. Ensure that schedule can be used for detailed material and capacity planning as well as financial planning.
• Create Stock Transfer Orders to deploy inventory and build truck/rail orders to minimize freight costs.
• Monitor, measure, and improve performance of assigned plant’s schedule adherence and attainment. Provide constant assessment of production needs and revise schedule based on actual production versus scheduled.
• Accountable to achieve service level targets, ensure balanced inventory across the network, and minimize transportation costs.
• Establish and maintain planning rules for supply resources based on business requirements, source capabilities, EOQ (Efficient Order Quantities), and alignment with operations strategies, ensuring least-landed costs are met.
• Ensure that all schedules are based on demonstrated manufacturing capability, structural constraints, available capacity and planned exception activity driving downstream planning in Agriculture, Purchasing, and Transportation & Warehousing.
• Anticipate supply problems and implement resolution working jointly with the plants and integrated supply chain teams.
• Lead weekly scheduling meeting for assigned plants for the purpose of identifying, negotiating and resolving conflicts with respect to material and capacity availability and meeting service levels.
• Assess risks and gaps within the schedule and develop resolution or communicate appropriately the risks and recovery within the organization.
• Ensures accuracy of scheduling parameters such as, manufacturing calendar, lot sizes, safety stocks, delivery times and sequencing rules for all assigned items.
• Determine deployment/redeployment of finished goods to manage Distribution Center Level Days of Supply by SKU and fulfillment of customer orders.
• Provide accurate and timely inventory or shortage information to Customer Service, Supply Planning and Distribution.
• Resolve any dispatch or delivery time issues with warehousing or transportation.
• Maintain accurate inventories of hold product and assist in disposition within policy guidelines. Assist with product recall, stock withdrawals and stock traces.
• Identify and assist in resolving slow-moving, aged, obsolete and discontinued finished goods items at all assigned warehouse locations.
• Conduct special assignments and lead cross-functional teams.
• Other projects/duties as assigned or needed.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Logistics, Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management or related discipline.
• APICS certification preferred.
• 1 – 5 years of supply chain experience preferred.
• Experience in food industry preferred.
• Experience with SAP – ECC, APO/SCM preferred.
• Project Management experience preferred.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent computer skills preferred (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc).
• Must have exceptional analytical skills and be able to work with complex data.
• Excellent problem solving, organization and planning skills.
• Strong drive for results.
• Effective communication skills (both oral and written) with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization.

#LI-NJ1McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccination restrictions easing across the globe we do not currently require employees to be vaccinated, but we reserve the right to change this mandate in line with health guidance and regulations in each country.Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Global Employee Privacy PolicyJob Family: Supply Chain & LogisticsDivision: NA Supply ChainDepartment: Potato Product Supply NALocation(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-BristolCompany: McCain Foods (Canada)Quick Apply

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