Business Transformation Manager
4 months ago
Job Posting:
**Ready For a Tasty New Challenge?**
**Business Transformation Manager**
**Reports To: VP of Business Transformation**
**Location: Based at Queensway office with required travel (avg 40%) to other Canadian locations**
The
**Business Transformation** role is a great opportunity for an individual that wants to be part of designing, developing and implementing sustainable changes. These changes will fundamentally change the way our business operates across our network 12 Bakeries, multiple DCs and a large Independent Distributor Network spread geographically across Canada, in a highly unionized environment.
You will be responsible for project management and embedding sustainable change across select high priority business projects across all areas of our business including sales, supply chain, transportation and manufacturing. These changes are all aligned with our vision of bringing affordable bread to all Canadians.
**What Wonderbrands Offers**:
- Wonderbrands believes in Home Grown Talent and accelerated career growth
- Competitive Compensation, Health, and Dental Benefits
- Pension plan with matching contribution
- Incentive program for salaried roles
- Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - Restaurants, gyms, shopping, etc.
**Responsibilities**
- Take a desired business outcome and solution design to create a logical work back structure (project work plan) with activities and timelines
- Manage objectives, scope, budget, timelines, risks, issues, KPI and benefit tracking
- Prepare decisions/asks to be presented to project sponsors
- Align cross functional teams and dependencies
- Manage implementation to realize to deliver measurable results
- Understand work activities and create process flows using PPT or Visio to visualize gaps, redundancies, inefficiencies, etc.
- Analyze, understand and draw business insights from large and complex data sets (including running pivots and complex analysis in Excel, Pareto analysis, etc.)
- Leverage influence (without authority) to build trust and work collaboratively with internal cross-functional teams (i.e. Supply Planning, Warehousing, Transportation, Sales teams) to implement sustainable change
- Facilitate virtual and in-person workshops focused on solution definition, stakeholder business alignment or team member engagement around the change
- Lead business priority large scale change initiatives through to post implementation, until we are confident it is entrenched as a new way of working and the metrics prove that it is as such
- Work with business stakeholders/SMEs (e.g., Warehouse, Supply Chain) to understand the solution (How difficult is the change to implement? Who will be impacted the most/the least? What’s in it for those that have change? What objections will they likely have?, etc.)
- Design, develop and implement change management plans that will get us from solution design to entrenched and sustainable new ways of working (identify key roles of the different stakeholders; e.g., IT, functional team, impacted team members, and how we will drive the behavior change, etc.)
- Understand all details of the change, be able to simply articulate key process, system and job changes, and anticipate and mitigate key obstacles to these changes that our team members will likely experience
- Work with key leaders driving the change at the front line to ensure they understand the benefits and leverage them as champions/sponsors of the change (and address where we aren’t getting the right leadership support)
- Work directly with leadership and front line team members to implement and sustain behavior change
**Requirements**:
- 5+ years of general business experience
- Undergraduate degree in Engineering or Business related fields
- Ability to travel (on average 30-40%)
- Strong planning, project management skills
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills (ability to analyze large data sets, run pivots, etc.) and Microsoft PowerPoint skills (ability to convey key messages through a short and simple story)
- Excellent communication and proficiency, both written and verbal skills in English
- Strong interpersonal skills and leadership ability, demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
- Experience handling multiple and changing deadlines, working in a fast-paced environment
- Positive attitude, highly self-motivated and goal-orientated
- SAP knowledge is an asset
- Experience with Mergers and Acquisition activities
- Consulting experience preferred - specifically experience leading cross functional team to deploy scalable solutions in complex and geographically dispersed locations (ideally 3+ years of business consulting experience in project management/driving organizational change)
- Must have valid driver’s license and access to a vehicle.
**What is the recipe for a great career at Wonderbrands**
Wonderbrands, is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged bre
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