Supply Planner

Job Posting:
**Company**

Wonderbrands, is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads. We are the makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. We have a network of 14 Bakery Manufacturing facilities across Canada.

**Our Program**:
Do you have a passion to innovate and a desire to challenge the status quo? We are seeking upcoming and recent graduates who are interested in joining an organization that offers opportunities to work in a fun, stimulating, and dynamic environment as **Supply Planners**.

We want to help you unleash your full potential Our Wonderbrands Next Gen Talent Program is designed for high-potential young professionals, with an objective of training the next generation of leaders and developing our home-grown talent. We create safe and inclusive spaces that encourage you to be you. The result is an agile workplace, filled with Team Members that have a relentless obsession with continuous improvement and an entrepreneurial spirit.

If you are a recent graduate or plan to graduate this year, the Wonderbrands Next Gen Talent Program could be a great opportunity for you. Come join us on our journey to become the world’s great baker

**What Wonderbrands Offers**:

- We believe in Home Grown Talent, accelerated career growth with leadership training; Unleashing Your Potential
- Many of our team members who joined us through similar “new graduate” programs were able to accelerate their career growth and reach high levels in our organization within a few years of joining us
- Competitive Compensation, Health Benefits, & a generous flexible Medical/Health spending account
- Employer matching Pension program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - restaurants, gyms, shopping etc.

**Summary**

Wonderbrands supply planners will report into a team leader, supply planning or a manager, supply planning. Supply planners are responsible for (not in order) 1. The detailed master planning of primarily fresh baked goods (breads, rolls, bagels) with some inventoried frozen SKUs, short and long term; 2. Achieving and maintaining set KPI levels for fill rate, inventory targets and other established metrics; 3. Open communication, collaboration and engagement with WB key team members including Logistics, Finance, Manufacturing, Customer Center of Excellence, Procurement and Product Life Management; 4. Participating in continuous improvement goals. This role is in a FAST-paced environment.

**Primary Responsibilities**
- Short term daily and long term weekly master planning and all related activities for a specified product category (bread, rolls, alternatives, frozen) including timely distribution of information
- Short and long term analysis for capacity and inventory requirements
- Maintain and improve fill rate and financial obligations (including post production waste) as set by WB leadership
- Understand, identify and root cause KPI misses for opportunities to improve trends
- Participation and/or leadership in key meetings as required
- Develop key relationships with other WB team members including Manufacturing sites, Logistics and Demand Planning
- Report and update department KPIs
- End to end tracking of deployment transactions
- Clear and open communication with internal and external partners (verbal and written)
- Learn and champion software tools (current and as introduced)
- Drive to improve and develop processes/tools that contribute and/or act as multipliers to overall WB business health
- Participating in the S&OP process and maintaining related presentation tools according to product category
- Vacation coverage activities including responsibilities from other team members

**About You**:

- Completed post-secondary degree with a focus on engineering, supply chain, statistics or mathematics
- Understanding of supply chain principles including forecasting, inventory control and logistics
- SAP experience preferred
- Advanced excel skills required
- Demonstrated knowledge and execution of Power BI and MS Access preferred
- Written and spoken French an asset but not required
- Passionate and desire to work and learn about the food manufacturing industry and innovation
- Ability to work in a start-up and team-based culture, working as a team to deliver outstanding results
- Bright, driven and clear about your future career goals
- Roll up your sleeves mentality with a whatever it takes mindset to get the job done
- Ability to work with people across multiple functions and with all levels of management

**What is the recipe for a great career at Wonderbrands?**

Working at Wonderbrands, there is never a dull moment As a successful company that is continually growing there is always challenging yet rewarding work to be a part of. We have an _entrepreneurial _spirit which encourages all our team members to use their own _creativity_ and _out of the box_ thinking to come u