Head of Manufacturing

6 days ago

Toronto, Canada New School Foods Full time

At New School Foods, our mission is to accelerate the transition to a kinder, healthier, alt-protein-first food system. Using our proprietary production technology, we create zero-compromise meat alternatives designed to enable global impact. Our healthy, whole-cut, plant-based filets are made to look, cook, taste and flake just like fish. All with a lower carbon footprint, and zero harm to the ocean. **ABOUT THE ROLE**: As our Head of Manufacturing, you will play a vital role in owning and driving our manufacturing plan for the future. This encompasses building and implementing our manufacturing strategy to procure our ingredients and building a robust supply chain, scaling up our product from bench to production readiness, and ultimately ensuring the final release of high-quality products to market. **AS OUR HEAD OF MANUFACTURING, YOU WILL**: - Strategic Planning: - In alignment with leadership, craft our short, mid, and long-term supply-chain and manufacturing strategy from the ground-up. This includes develop systems and processes, goals, project plans, and feedback loops to ensure for supply chain, shipping, and exporting to scale manufacturing for New School Foods. - Take projections from sales and finance team and translate that into production goals, timelines, and schedules. - Operations Management: - Oversee the day-to-day manufacturing activities to ensure production targets are met efficiently and effectively. - Optimize production schedules, resource allocation, waste management, to maximize productivity. - Implement documentation processes that support data-driven decision-making, ensuring all actions are aligned with operational data, inventory levels, and contract obligations. - Champion organizational, project management, and planning skills with the team. - Team Leadership: - Provide strong hands-on leadership to the manufacturing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement. - Set clear goals and objectives for each member of your team and monitor progress and reward achievement. **YOU WILL BRING**: - Minimum of 7+ years of manufacturing experience (carrying responsibilities that vary from supply chain, plant management, and manufacturing). - At least 5 years of experience in a leadership role working with consumable and/or perishable products. - Demonstrated experience in taking concepts from 0 -> 1. You have the ability to plan and execute cross-functionally, demonstrating strategic vision and operational precision. - An approachable leadership style, with the ability to think on your feet, make decisions quickly, and navigate teams through complex manufacturing scenarios. - Customer-driven and a high-sense of urgency. - Excellent organizational and project management skills. - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. - High level of integrity and professionalism. New School Foods offers highly competitive salaries and benefits, paid time off, and more. This position is for our Toronto, Canada location.

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