Manager of Agriculture, Integrated Supply Chain

Position Title: Manager of Agriculture, Integrated Supply ChainPosition Type: Regular - Full-TimeRequisition ID: 39550In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.About the role.McCain's North American Agriculture team is accountable for ensuring adequate potato supply matched in volume and quality to our annual & monthly production plans. The Manager of Ag Integrated Supply Chain manages our potato positions and inventories, collaborates with Supply Chain and Manufacturing to balance our production plans with our raw material, builds our annual contract coverage proposals for leadership, and collaborates closely with our Field Managers and Schedulers to elevate concerns and opportunities through our short-term and long-term planning processes. This is an essential role representing Agriculture to our wider business, requiring an individual who is a self-starter, a confident public speaker, and capable of building effective cross-functional relationships.What you'll be doing.Lead the capture and reporting of timely and accurate data to drive strategic decision making (monthly inventories, annual post-harvest bin sampling, etc.)Update the Monthly Potato Position Report by NA Plant Location, including specialty product categories like wedges, Innovator, yellow flesh, Regen Fries, and moreDevelop tools and dashboards that automate our monthly reporting processes and generate insights à oversee the transition from Excel to PowerBIRepresent Agriculture in our cross-functional supply planning processes (both short term and long term) to ensure business decisions appropriately consider raw/grower costing and implicationsBuild and maintain close cross-functional relationships to solve challenges and take advantage of opportunitiesLead capture and reporting of in-season potato market intelligence including price, quality, and quantity of open market potatoesManage Buy Orders application within applicable digital tools, ensuring in regions purchases remain within set parameters for price & volumeManage regional and global reporting on potato markets, positions, crop development, and factory performanceLead our weekly field team meetings focused on crop and storage process; collaborate with our Transformation team to develop dashboards that allow us to generate insightsBuild our annual contract coverage proposal and support Field Teams in using category management tools to strategically allocate volumeParticipate as-needed in long-term network planning exercises and other strategic projectsQuantify the value of Ag ISC projects that generate financial savings (called SCA at McCain)Supporting our Seed & Variety Team in aligning seed pipelines with long-range commercial plansWhat you'll need to be successful.Build strong cross-functional partnerships with finance, manufacturing, and planningDrive data and communicate effectively to ensure business performanceStandardize our reporting processes and automate where appropriateSupport delivery of our annual coverage, forecast accuracy, and cost savings goalsBachelor's degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience preferredRelevant working experience, preferably within agricultural, manufacturing, finance, or supply chainExcellent communication skills and ability to successfully influence internal and external partiesInterpersonal skills, with a proven ability to develop and nurture strong cross-functional and departmental relationshipsConfidence with Microsoft Office and willingness to learn PowerBIStrong problem-solving skillsAdditional Information.Location: This role has the flexibility to be based out of any of our NA corporate offices - Florenceville, New Brunswick; Toronto, Ontario; Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, USATravel: