Job Description

Greenhouse is seeking an Operations Assistant to work alongside our procurement, production, and demand planning team. This co-op position is a unique opportunity to work across various departments in a rapidly growing CPG start-up.
The Operations Assistant supports the procurement of all items for the production schedule, while adhering to established inventory goals. In addition, you will take initiative to improve the movement, distribution, and storage of goods, while ensuring all stakeholders are provided excellent service throughout the entire supply chain.
Candidates for this job have a strong eye for detail, can provide quick and strategic solutions, adapt to sudden changes, manage difficult and complex challenges, and work collaboratively with excellent oral and written communication skills. Candidates have a positive attitude and extreme determination to help us build inventory management systems and operational processes capable of scaling to support the fastest growing customer base.
Responsibilities Include, but are not limited to:

• Perform analysis on a variety of supply chain and production data sets to measure performance, identify trends, model impacts of resource changes, and discover optimization opportunities
• Communicate with vendors to obtain information critical to the procurement/sourcing process
• Assist the purchasing team with creating purchase orders
• Coordinate company purchases with other departments
• Manage digital purchasing records
• Assist in creation of purchasing policies and procedures
• Focus on improving inventory management, manufacturing, and warehouse processes to create better accuracy and efficiency.
• Implement and modify systems, processes, and optimization projects in accordance with organizational goals
• Participate in project definition, scoping, and analysis activities
• Assist the logistic team with routing deliveries
• Participate in inventory cycle counts

Key Projects Include:

• Finding creative and eco-friendly solutions for waste management
• Optimizing our weekly delivery routes to increase sales and customer experience
• Improving inventory management processes to minimize customer shorts and product waste

Skill Requirements:

• Self-driven initiative to gain and implement a broad knowledge of warehousing and supply chain best practices
• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s Degree in business or a related field
• Strong at building relationships with suppliers
• Excellent organizational, planning and communication skills
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft office (Word, Excel)

Greenhouse The health and wellbeing of our team and customers is our top priority. Greenhouse is committed to in-store safety protocols, providing a safe working environment that aligns with PPE, screening procedures, and capacity restrictions in Ontario.
As a company, Greenhouse is committed to ensuring that all people-related processes such as recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, benefits, and so forth are administered without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, or age. We value an inclusive workplace and will ensure our practices and policies uphold just this. For individuals with disabilities, accommodations are available.
We look forward to hearing from you! The Greenhouse Team