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Wonderbrands, is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads. We are the makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. We have a network of 14 Bakery Manufacturing facilities across Canada.
Our Program:
Do you have a passion to innovate and a desire to challenge the status quo? We are seeking individuals interested in starting a career in an organization that offers opportunities to work in a fun, stimulating, and dynamic environment as a Logistics Operations Associate.
We want to help you unleash your full potential! Our Wonderbrands Next Gen Talent Program is designed for high-potential professionals, with an objective of training the next generation of leaders and developing our home-grown talent. We create safe and inclusive spaces that encourage you to be you. The result is an agile workplace, filled with Team Members that have a relentless obsession with continuous improvement and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Come join us on our journey to become the world’s great baker!
What Wonderbrands Offers:
- We believe in Home Grown Talent, accelerated career growth with leadership training; Unleashing Your Potential
- Many of our team members who joined us through similar “new graduate” programs were able to accelerate their career growth and reach high levels in our organization within a few years of joining us
- Competitive Compensation, Health Benefits, & a 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.
Wonderbrands supply planners will report into a team leader, supply planning or a manager, supply planning. Supply planners are responsible for (not in order)
- The 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. This role is in a FAST-paced environment.
- 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.
- 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
- Successful candidate will be 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
- SAP experience preferred
- Moderate to advanced excel skills required
- Demonstrated knowledge and execution of Power BI and MS Access preferred
- Written and spoken French an asset but not required
- Flexible work schedule including holidays and weekends
Adaptive Intelligence - Team Members respond effectively to challenges by evolving their skills, mindset, and approach.
- Flexibility, Agility, Adaptability: Thrives in dynamic environments by embracing continuous change. Quickly adjusts to new priorities and actively seeks innovative solutions. Uses setbacks as opportunities for growth
- and applies a relentless focus on improving outcomes. Approaches challenges with a proactive, solutions-driven mindset and openness to feedback.
- Calculated Risk-Taking: Makes strategic decisions by evaluating options and creating contingency plans.
- Team First and Collaboration: Engages with Team Members and colleagues, builds relationships, and fosters an inclusive, innovative environment.
- Continuous Improvement: Drives innovation and optimizes processes to enhance quality and productivity.
- Customer and Product Focus: Addresses need proactively with accountability and a solution-oriented mindset.
- Fierce Execution: Achieves results with a strategic and hands-on approach, learning from mistakes and building trust.
Inspire & Energize Team Members
- Continually inspires and develops Team Members and promote cross-functional collaboration.
- Supports, shared knowledge and experience with your Team through authentic conversations and development planning
- Communicates clear expectations
- Uses insight and knowledge to influence others
- Understands and acknowledge differences and modifies style to support unleashing potential
- Demonstrates patience and empathy, while listening
- Inspire enthusiasm & commitment by communicating a clear path to success
- Empowers others by delegating and providing support and opportunities for growth
- Identifies, raises and resolves conflict
- Builds trust and models the “Coach Approach”
- Encourages informed risk-taking and supports learning from outcomes.
- Creates an environment where your team enjoys working hard while having fun
- Provides feedback to reinforce results
In compliance with Ontario’s Bill 190, we confirm that this posting represents a current existing vacancy within our organization.
We affirm that our hiring process, including candidate screening, evaluation, and selection, does not involve the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or automated decision-making tools. All assessments and decisions are conducted by qualified human professionals to ensure fairness, transparency, and compliance with Bill 149.
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