Director, Purchasing and Contract Manufacturing

4 weeks ago

Halifax, Canada High Liner Foods Full time

**Job purpose**

The Director of Purchasing and Contract Manufacturing is responsible for all non-seafood purchasing of goods and services, including:

- Contract Manufacturing / C0-Packing
- Ingredients / Packaging
- MRO / Capex
- IT, Marketing, & Shared Services

This pivotal role involves developing and executing strategies to ensure efficient and cost-effective purchasing and product development, while maintaining high-quality standards and meeting customer demands. The Director of Purchasing and Contract Manufacturing collaborates closely with internal stakeholders, such as procurement, production, quality assurance, and supply chain management, to establish strong relationships with supply partners. They will lead negotiations, assess performance metrics, and implement continuous improvement initiatives at the target locations to optimize production efficiency, minimize risks, and drive business growth. Additionally, the Director of Purchasing and Contract Manufacturing stays abreast of industry trends, regulations, and best practices to inform strategic decision-making and maintain the company's competitive edge in the market. Ultimately, this role plays a crucial part in driving operational excellence, fostering innovation, and ensuring the successful execution of the company's product development objectives through strategic partnerships with contract manufacturers.

This role requires a strong leader who can influence, guide, and engage a variety of stakeholders towards an improved future state.

**Essential Duties and responsibilities**
- Ensure development and implementation of growth initiatives and purchasing/negotiating strategies, along with day-to-day supplier management, to support enterprise objectives across key functions, including:

- Product Development:

- Work with process partners in Marketing and R&D to conduct opportunity assessments, qualify suppliers, address product development opportunities, and lead productivity improvement projects.
- Manage commercial relationships with co-packers and contract manufacturers to ensure high performance levels on material planning, production, product quality, food safety, transportation, inventory, customer service, regulatory policies, and cost requirements.
- Manufacturing/Distribution:

- Identify and develop the right suppliers to ensure best cost, quality, and delivery.
- Maintain adequate inventory of ingredients, packaging, production supplies, and finished products at competitive prices.
- Recommend hedging strategies for key commodities including energy, packaging materials, and agricultural ingredients.
- Engineering: support procurement of capex and construction services.
- IT, Marketing and Shared Services: support procurement of corporate goods and services.
- Establish and maintain measurable performance metrics for key activities including supplier performance, supplier quality, order fulfillment, and financial (AP) performance; Measure progress and develop corrective actions as needed. Additional measures should be put in place for contract manufacturing partners including food safety and customer service.
- Be the primary source for obtaining operational savings at supplier facilities; ensure savings are tracked and that initiatives meet profit plan and overall business objectives.
- Understand should-cost and cost -drivers, including short-and-long-term impacts.
- Lead commodity strategies in line with product development and corporate initiatives to improve supply chain efficiency; reduce total cost of supply chain management.
- Build and strengthen cross functional relationships between suppliers and internal process partners to foster trust.
- Aid in the development and execution of daily tactical activities such as inventory management, quality and service improvement, internal/external communications, and other supply chain management functions.
- Analyze manufacturing best practices and encourage suppliers to implement these practices.
- Be knowledgeable of the internal processes needed t0 bring products through commercialization.
- Work with the Legal Department on contract creation/management and with audit and other process partners to manage risk; Mitigate risk along the value chain, including raw materials/ingredients, packaging, inventory, and logistics.
- Ensure suppliers comply with High Liner Foods’ Supplier Code of Conduct.
- Manage and mentor a dynamic team of purchasing professionals.

**Qualifications**
- University degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, and/or Operations Management, or equivalent business experience.
- Significant experience in food-related manufacturing and contract manufacturing with diverse management experiences in operations, engineering, purchasing, strategic sourcing, and/or quality assurance, preferably in a strategic role in a mid
- to large-size food manufacturer.
- Good understanding of manufacturing processes, and supply markets for frozen and ready-to-eat products,

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