Procurement Planner - Halifax, Canada - High Liner Foods

High Liner Foods

Verified Company

Halifax, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Procurement Planner - Halifax, NS

About High Liner
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High Liner Foods was founded in
1899 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada as a small salt fish company. Lunenburg is still the current home of our Canadian Operations. As a category leader in Seafood, High Liner Foods has a strong footprint across Canada and the U.S. with close to $1 billion in sales.

High Liner Foods is the seafood brand people trust.

Every day we're _Reimagining Seafood to Nourish Life_ through a focus on our customers, innovation, and of course, responsible operations.

Our talented team is committed to the High Liner Foods goal of becoming the leader in branded, value-added seafood in North America.

We offer professional, technical and operational career opportunities across Canada and the United States. We believe in building a high-performance organization by investing in our people. We are focused on developing future leaders from within and fostering career growth and advancement.

Help us change the way we see food

High Liner Foods is a career destination.

We look for high performing talent who value:

Safety; it's our #1 priority
Opportunities to contribute to your community through volunteerism
A culture of inclusion, support and recognition
Senior leaders that are highly accessible and available to employees
A strong focus on education and career development through training
Competitive salary and performance rewards
A comprehensive benefit plan designed to keep up with the changing healthcare needs across North America

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Determining the requirements for long term orders with suppliers.
Being responsible for the complete ordering process with suppliers from setting up orders, advising suppliers of required shipping plans, confirmation of orders, addressing issues for Customs brokers and follow up with QC.
Expediting and rescheduling orders according to the MRP system to ensure that our systems have the most current information available, which in turn will let us know when problems may arise through the "missed commitment" process.
Providing feedback to the Seafood Procurement Manager, relating to offshore supplier issues, which will enable us to improve supplier performance.
Assisting Procurement in building strong relationships with reliable suppliers by maintaining effective communications and providing information regarding customer needs and requirements to the suppliers.
Working closely with Sales & Marketing to ensure that accurate forecasts for procured items are available for use in the MRP system.
Facilitating set up of new suppliers and assisting suppliers with procurement module related issues.
Ensuring suppliers are paid on time through following the invoice matching procedure.
Ensuring accurate input of sustainability information by suppliers.
Ensuring the timely disposition of rejected products, contacts/arranges for product to be returned to supplier.
Providing assurance that information is accurate and current through consistent review of data, reports (scrub and open order) and frequent interface with applicable parties.
Supporting and updating the procurement module information to ensure accuracy and reliability. Participating in the further development and improvement of the procurement module.

Qualifications:

University degree in business or related experience
Minimum three years' experience in related field is required
Exceptional interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
Selfstarter with excellent organization, negotiation, follow up and decision making skills
Demonstrates ability to pay close attention to detail and the quality of your work
Team player who believes in providing high level of customer service
Ability to manage multiple priorities and requests in an efficient manner and on a timely basis
Present desire to look for innovative ways to make things better and more efficient
Proficiency with an ERP system utilizing MRP or other replenishment tool

High Liner Foods is Remote Friendly We offer a Flexible Hybrid Work Model where corporate office employees have the flexibility to choose a minimum of two office days per week, with the option to work wherever they prefer (office or remote) for the remainder of the week.

Health, Safety & Wellness
At High Liner Foods, we believe strongly in the safety and wellness of our employees.

Our organization has a number of policies, programs and practices that focus on safety, wellness, health and sustainability of the overall organization.

Recruitment Process

Our process is meaningful but efficient We want to get to know you and show you what our world is like.