Master Planner, Global Supply Chain

The Company

At Canopy Growth, our mission is clear: improve lives, end cannabis prohibition, and strengthen communities. We believe that cannabis can be a force for good. We're building a consumer-centric organization that is focused on sharing the transformational potential of cannabis with the world. We will achieve this through an innovative and disruptive portfolio of cannabis and hemp-derived products.

Canopy Growth is the world's leading cannabis and hemp company. We recognize that employees are at the core of our success, and we take pride in a corporate culture that emphasizes inclusiveness, collaboration, and diversity.

Our employees come from a wide range of backgrounds, each bringing their own unique skills and talents to the table, working together to continue our incredible momentum of growth.  If you are interested in building global challenger brands, scaling a business, and working in a values-driven environment, we want to hear from you

The Opportunity

Canopy Growth is looking for a Master Planner, Global Supply Chain to join its team on a permanent full-time position basis.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Supply Planning, the mandate of the Master Planner is to facilitate in the management, implementation, and continual improvement of the planning processes and enabling tools, and to ensure that functional leaders, managers, and team members are aligned on supply plan execution.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialized subject matter expertise and leadership (by initiative) in one of the following Master Planning areas: Whole Cannabis Flower, Pre-Rolled Cannabis, Ingested Cannabis Extracts, Inhaled Cannabis Extracts, and/or Topical Cannabis Extracts.

• Develop and maintain detailed production plans and material requirement plans for production processes of core stock keeping units and new product innovation.

• Coordinate cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, Warehousing, Quality, and Product team members to achieve optimum utilization.

• Provide direction and leadership with capacity planning and constraint-based planning.

• Develop and document best practices, translating that data into parameters within the advanced planning software.

• Categorize, summarize and report all associated opportunities and risks within respective portfolios to drive key decisions within sales and operations planning cycles.

• Maintain analytic parameters and planning parameters within the advanced planning software.

• Provide clear and specialized scenario planning outputs to direct the business towards key financial targets relating to price. utilization, standard cost, cost of goods sold, variable margin, net revenue, and inventory valuation targets

• Maintain total portfolio optimization by coordinating the disposition of all finished goods and intermediates along the value chain,with clear impacts on the financial KPIs of the firm.

• Assist in developing strategies for total-lifecycle management of stock keeping units.

• Assist in creating, defining, and maintaining functional requirements within the advanced planning software.

• Some travel to head office or on site meet may be required on an ad hoc basis.

• Other duties as assigned.

Experience and Background

• Post-secondary education in supply chain management or a related field

• Knowledge and experience in IBP and/or Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

• Knowledge in business, strong technical skills, expertise in supply chain management, and experience in supply chain planning

• Experience working and collaborating with demand and supply-side professionals as well as individuals from supporting functional areas

• Financial aptitude and ability to interact with all levels of the organization and handle multiple projects simultaneously

• Skills required to effectively manage complex and rapidly evolving situations  

• Communication skills that enable change, problem resolution, mediation, and the ability to successfully work in a team environment

• Knowledge and experience working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software systems

• Knowledge and experience working with advanced planning systems (Kinaxis RapidResponse preferred)

• Commit to acquiring or already hold one or both of the APICS Certifications below:

  • Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)

  • Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)

Other Details

This is a full-time remote position based in Ontario.

We appreciate your interest, and promise to review all applications, but we will only be contacting those who best fit the requirements.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you require accommodation, please notify your Talent Acquisition Partner. Please note, the chosen applicant will be required to successfully complete background and reference checks.