Supply Chain Planner (Open to New Graduates)

Wonderbrands • Etobicoke, ON

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Wonderbrands is seeking individuals interested in starting a career as a Logistics Operations Associate through the Wonderbrands Next Gen Talent Program. This program is designed for high-potential professionals with the objective of training the next generation of leaders and developing home-grown talent. The program aims to create safe and inclusive spaces that encourage individuality, resulting in an agile workplace filled with team members who have a relentless obsession with continuous improvement and an entrepreneurial spirit. Wonderbrands offers accelerated career growth with leadership training, competitive compensation, health benefits, a generous flexible Medical/Health spending account, employer matching pension program, tuition reimbursement, and a discount program.

Requirements

• Completed post secondary degree from a recognized university or college with a focus on engineering, supply chain, statistics or mathematics (or equivalent experience).
• 1-2 years of relevant work experience (or equivalent co-op or internship placements).
• Understanding of supply chain principles including forecasting, inventory control and logistics.
• Results driven, find innovative solutions to problems, be proactive in identifying issues and opportunities, strike a balance between fair and progressive, be detail orientated, be multitasking and be inquisitive and analytical.
• Moderate to advanced excel skills required.

Nice To Haves

• SAP experience preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge and execution of Power BI and MS Access preferred.
• Written and spoken French an asset but not required.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 availability throughout the network.
• Develop and maintain relationships with existing and potential buyers and suppliers to the organization along with maintaining supplier score cards and having discussions with suppliers on service levels periodically.
• Develop processes to improve inventory accuracy for all centrally stored raw materials.
• Report and update department KPIs.
• End to end tracking of deployment transactions.
• Clear and open communication with internal and external partners (verbal and written).
• Learn and champion software tools (current and as introduced).
• Drive to improve and develop processes/tools that contribute and/or act as multipliers to overall WB business health.
• Participating in the S&OP process and maintaining related presentation tools according to product category.
• Vacation coverage activities including responsibilities from other team members.
• All other duties as required.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Health Benefits
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level