Director Food Manufacturing

4 weeks ago


Vaughan, Canada Agrocrop Exports Ltd. Full time

**Director of Operations
- Agrocrop Exports Ltd.**

**FOOD MANUFACTURING REQUIRED**

**The Role**

Agrocrop is opening a new facility and is looking for a seasoned Operations leader that has led an entire Ready To EAR (RTE) Food Manufacturing Facility.

We are looking for an experienced Director of Operations & Supply Chain. Reporting to the COO, this leader will be a member of the senior team and will be accountable for manufacturing facilities, logistics network, and warehousing activities that support our short-term needs driven by our rapid growth agenda, as well as our long-term strategic goals.

The Director will be a change leader with agile and critical thinking, strong analytical skills, and experience in creating and interpreting strategic vision and implementing it into operational models and will be a strong team player. They will lead the Operations and Supply Chain team through robust operations execution, savings implementation, and improved processes of Sourcing, Planning, Manufacturing and Delivery.

**The key priorities for this role include**
- Leadership of our core production and supply chain teams.
- Full commissioning of a brown field.
- Continued Capex and commissioning over next five years to support rapid growth.
- Advise leadership on strategic manufacturing practises, supply chain strategies, and understanding of global best practices to support a growth-based agenda over the next 1-3 years.
- Lead the upgrade of our integrated demand and supply planning efforts, both from a system and process standpoint
- Balance the business needs and vision across the manufacturing sites and all supply chain requests.
- Define key Metrics for improved Operations and Supply Chain efficiency along with review mechanism and regularly report them to relevant functions for better decision making.
- Develop a robust road map to deliver enablers/savings
- Responsible for overall Team development through regular feedback and periodic performance reviews against set goals. Focus on the quality of the team, training, development, and outputs.

**The key leadership profile/competencies for this role include**:
**1. Team Leadership**
- Set key performance stands for the Operations and Supply Chain function and contribute to overall AEL team development
- Track record of building strong operations and supply chain teams
- Ability to get things done through others
- Coach, develop and mentor

**2. Support Strategy Development**
- Identify and implement ongoing operational strategy and improvements.
- Proven experience in delivering savings by identifying a road map and rally organization to execute.
- Ability dive deep where needed on relevant issues
- Sound conceptual and strategic awareness/capabilities
- Sound business acumen and solid Supply Chain & Operational skills

**3. Influencing and Collaboration**
- Builds strong relationships
- Communicates with confidence, with a no ego
- Unafraid to challenge assumptions, demonstrate conviction,
- Approaches things with and open mind

**4. Results Orientation**
- Energized by new challenges and desire to create something special
- Instill a culture of accountability and distributed leadership
- Roll up the sleeves acumen that can also migrate between 40,00 feet and day to day
- Ability to make bold decisions and take others with them while doing so
- Ability to set functional operations stretch goals and implement process and systems to measure and deliver results

**Qualifications**:

- MUST HAVE RTE FOOD MANUFACTURING WITH MINIMUM 5 YEARS DIRECRLY OVERSEEING A PLANT**
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, or a related field.
- Must have Brown Field Experience.
- Multi-line commissioning experience is mandatory.
- 10+ year experience in managing Operations and Supply Chain function in a multi-million-dollar environment. Exposure to fast paced operation within food manufacturing plants.
- Exposure to both MNC and privately owned business.
- Exposure operating across Canada leading manufacturing facilities and transportations.
- First-hand experiencing with ERP / Supply Chain tools - advanced technologies are a key advantage.
- Ability to independently lead and co-ordinate multi-locational projects
- Dealing with 3rd party logistics service providers, negotiation skills and establishing good working relationship.
- Negotiating deals with suppliers for cost effective materials.
- Executed significant Cost improvement projects.
- A lean practitioner who can manage and adapt to change and transformation

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed

Application question(s):

- Food Manufacturing in a RTE as SR Operations leader for minimum 5 years?

Ability to Relocate:

- Vaughan, ON: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location:



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