Senior Manager, Agribusiness Performance

Sofina Foods Inc•Markham, ON

3d•CA$95,800 - CA$145,800

About The Position

Reporting directly to the Chief Agribusiness Officer, the Senior Manager, Agribusiness Performance applies disciplined analytics and entrepreneurial insights to advance business performance and excellence across the organization. This key role supports the mandate of the Agribusiness team to elevate data metrics, develop planning improvements, and improve grower engagement and retention. Another significant deliverable is the development and updating of the rolling 5 year Agribusiness capacity plan.

Requirements

BA/BS in Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain management or related field
7 years plus experience in a manufacturing environment within the Consumer Packaged Goods industry is preferred.
Demonstrated solid business acumen and sound decision-making skills.
Thoroughness, curiosity, and attention to detail
Above average experience with an ERP system
Superior computer skills including advanced spreadsheet modeling
Ability to implement Power BI analytics and dashboards
Travel required as per business needs.

Responsibilities

Drive collaboration cross-functionally across 13 primary processing plants and 4 hatcheries with the primary objective to develop, implement, and adopt a continuous improvement focus utilizing metrics and data, resulting in improved business outcomes.
Develop standardized daily, weekly, and monthly KPIs to drive organizational performance, as opportunities are identified in weekly and monthly reviews.
Apply relevant business insights and knowledge to generate sound decision-making within the company’s Agribusiness activities.
Improve and build better reporting and tools to enable improved decision-making and collaboration across functions.
Identify opportunities through a detailed understanding of the activities underlying costs of operations, and design and implement changes that will maintain competitive advantage.
Lead collaboration between plants, hatcheries, engineering, and finance to develop better and more timely business cases to facilitate resource investments.
Support major projects with business case development while identifying benefits to the business.
Provide guidance and insights to drive simplification, elimination, combination, and reduction of data/multiple data reports across the Agribusiness network.
Support and facilitation of continuous improvement tracking, driving efficient and effective follow-up with clear accountability.
Question with rigor, deep-diving decisions, and challenge the Agribusiness team to improve outcomes.
Use disciplined analysis, modeling, and forecasting to inspire and drive better decisions and results.
Continuous Improvement of performance reporting and decision-making methodology to support the growing business.
Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain, Live Procurement, and Hatcheries to manage operating costs and drive operational excellence.
Lead the development of a 5 year rolling plan capturing capacity needs from hatching egg supply to primary processing, leading to expansion planning to meet the growth of the business.