Analyst, Global Supply Chain Design - Toronto, Canada - McCain Foods (Canada)

McCain Foods (Canada)

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Position Title:
Analyst, Global Supply Chain Design

Position Type:
Regular - Full-Time

Position Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, United States

Grade:
Grade 04

Requisition ID: 24181

Potatoes. French Fries. Taters. You love them, we make them.

In fact, we make 1 in 4 of the world's frozen potato products and if you have eaten fries this week, chances are, they were ours.

At McCain Foods, we know the importance that food plays in people's lives - the power it has to uplift and bring people, families, businesses and communities together.

Guided by our purpose to bring enjoyment to people's lives through great tasting food, we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change - today, tomorrow and for generations to come.

As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do.

Our core values - Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality - shine through every day, in everything we do.

Position Summary
This Analyst will play a key role in the design of the end-to-end global supply chain. This role will support global and multi-regional projects that enable successful operations across McCain's global supply chain.

"Successful Operations" can be defined by various measures, including capacity balancing, customer relationships, efficient processes, and a sustainable cost advantage.

The Analyst will use exceptional analytical skills to deliver high-quality results, while simultaneously using industry best practices to build sustainable and repeatable processes that will aid efforts in data-driven decision-making and advanced analytics.

The Team
McCain's Global Supply Chain team is responsible for setting up the extended Supply Chain organization for success. The team focuses on enabling strong business performance by leveraging McCain's global footprint as a competitive advantage.

We partner with our Regional Supply Chains to evaluate the global flow of goods, establish core operating processes, and strengthen organizational capabilities.

It is a growing team, and you will find you are surrounded by team members looking out for one another and always available to help someone in need.

What You Will Be Working On

Evaluate strategic opportunities to optimize the global supply chain network, including manufacturing, distribution, inventory, customer service, and capital spend
Maintain supply chain optimization models using approaches that include linear and nonlinear programming, heuristics, and network flow algorithms
Extract, consolidate, and validate all critical data inputs
Develop business processes and tools used to streamline data collection, management and refresh activities used to ensure the highest level of data integrity
Identify and leverage proxy data sources used to supplement and/or complement existing data
Incorporate complex and everchanging business policies and constraints into models
Translate new requirements to development team and manage as appropriate
Assess future manufacturing and distribution network capacity requirements and make recommendations to support business growth
Translate model results into executable production, distribution, and capital recommendations
Drive continuous improvement across global and regional Supply Chain processes and tools

What You Need to be Successful

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or Industrial Engineering from an accredited institution
2+ years of experience in supply chain, mathematical modeling, analytics, or strategic network planning in a complex manufacturing and distribution environment
Ability to analyze and organize large amount of data, models, and results using Microsoft Excel, Access, Power BI, SQL, and other related tools
Ability to convert functional requirements to technical requirements for the development team
Passion for challenging the status quo
Ability to investigate complex issues and conduct root cause analysis
Passion for creating innovative approaches to solve abstract business problems
Ability to infer realistic business and supply chain implications from data and model results
A bias towards decisive action
A selfmotivated, analytical, and independent thinker
Ability to work well in both individual and team environments

What You Can Expect

A supportive team that will encourage you to be and do your best
A safe and flexible working environment that promotes work/life balance
The opportunity to be part of meaningful work and projects
The opportunity to learn from team members from all backgrounds, and to pass on your experience and interests to the McCain organization
McCain Foods is an equal opportunit