Job Description

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Position Title: Analyst, Global Supply Chain Design

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time \xe2\x80\x8b

Position Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, United States

Grade: Grade 04

Requisition ID: 24181

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Potatoes. French Fries. Taters. You love them, we make them. In fact, we make 1 in 4 of the world\'s frozen potato products and if you have eaten fries this week, chances are, they were ours.

At McCain Foods, we know the importance that food plays in people\'s lives - the power it has to uplift and bring people, families, businesses and communities together. Guided by our purpose to bring enjoyment to people\'s lives through great tasting food, we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change - today, tomorrow and for generations to come.

As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our core values - Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality - shine through every day, in everything we do.

We aim to hire the best and brightest candidates to join us as full-time employees. Our ideal candidate is passionate, collaborative, willing to learn, and take initiative. Your experience at McCain is what you make of it - ask questions, network, take advantage of the opportunity to learn from our professionals.

Position Summary

This Analyst will play a key role in the design of the end-to-end global supply chain. This role will support global and multi-regional projects that enable successful operations across McCain\'s global supply chain. \xe2\x80\x9cSuccessful Operations\xe2\x80\x9d can be defined by various measures, including capacity balancing, customer relationships, efficient processes, and a sustainable cost advantage. The Analyst will use exceptional analytical skills to deliver high-quality results, while simultaneously using industry best practices to build sustainable and repeatable processes that will aid efforts in data-driven decision-making and advanced analytics.

The Team

McCain\'s Global Supply Chain team is responsible for setting up the extended Supply Chain organization for success. The team focuses on enabling strong business performance by leveraging McCain\'s global footprint as a competitive advantage. We partner with our Regional Supply Chains to evaluate the global flow of goods, establish core operating processes, and strengthen organizational capabilities. It is a growing team, and you will find you are surrounded by team members looking out for one another and always available to help someone in need.

What You Will Be Working On

• Evaluate strategic opportunities to optimize the global supply chain network, including manufacturing, distribution, inventory, customer service, and capital spend
• Maintain supply chain optimization models using approaches that include linear and non-linear programming, heuristics, and network flow algorithms
• Extract, consolidate, and validate all critical data inputs
• Develop business processes and tools used to streamline data collection, management and refresh activities used to ensure the highest level of data integrity
• Identify and leverage proxy data sources used to supplement and/or complement existing data
• Incorporate complex and ever-changing business policies and constraints into models
• Translate new requirements to development team and manage as appropriate
• Assess future manufacturing and distribution network capacity requirements and make recommendations to support business growth
• Translate model results into executable production, distribution, and capital recommendations
• Drive continuous improvement across global and regional Supply Chain processes and tools

What You Need to be Successful

• Bachelor\'s Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or Industrial Engineering from an accredited institution
• 2+ years of experience in supply chain, mathematical modeling, analytics, or strategic network planning in a complex manufacturing and distribution environment
• Ability to analyze and organize large amount of data, models, and results using Microsoft Excel, Access, Power BI, SQL, and other related tools
• Ability to convert functional requirements to technical requirements for the development team
• Passion for challenging the status quo
• Ability to investigate complex issues and conduct root cause analysis
• Passion for creating innovative approaches to solve abstract business problems
• Ability to infer realistic business and supply chain implications from data and model results
• A bias towards decisive action
• A self-motivated, analytical, and independent thinker
• Ability to work well in both individual and team environments

What You Can Expect

• A supportive team that will encourage you to be and do your best
• A safe and flexible working environment that promotes work/life balance
• The opportunity to be part of meaningful work and projects
• The opportunity to learn from team members from all backgrounds, and to pass on your experience and interests to the McCain organization

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McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccination restrictions easing across the globe we do not currently require employees to be vaccinated, but we reserve the right to change this mandate in line with health guidance and regulations in each country.

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Job Family: General & Administration; Supply Chain & Logistics
Division: Global Supply Chain
Department: \xe2\x80\x8bGlobal Supply Chain Design \xe2\x80\x8b
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)

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