National Vice President Logistics

Bimbo Bakeries

  • Etobicoke, ON
  • Permanent
  • Temps-plein
  • Il y a 2 mois
National Vice President Logisticsreq38496Employment Type: RegularLocation: ETOBICOKE,ONBimbo Canada is a market leading producer and distributor of packaged fresh bread, bakery and snacking products with brands such as Dempster's®, Villaggio®, POM®, Bon Matin®, Ben's®, Stonemill,® McGavins,® Oroweat®, Vachon® and Takis®. The company operates 16 bakeries and employs approximately 4,200 associates across Canada. Bimbo Canada pursues the goal of creating value by being at the forefront of manufacturing and service delivery innovation in the baking industry through the continued improvement and refinement of its supply chain network. Bimbo Canada serves major grocery chains, retail outlets and food service operations across Canada with a robust offering of both branded and private label products.POSITION SUMMARY:Reporting to the Bimbo Canada President, this role will oversee Canadian Logistics, and will be a key member of the Canadian executive team. As a key strategist and proven logistics leader, this individual is charged with all elements of the company's transportation and supply chain management across Canada - to create a safe, highly focused and low-cost logistics model that is best-in-class within the baked goods and snacking industry. In addition, this executive will work closely with other divisions in the Americas and around the globe and will oversee a team of approximately 600 direct and indirect associates, as well as outside third-party suppliers. #LI-LM1 #LI-HybridKEY PRIORITIES INCLUDE:
  • Be the Bimbo Canada Safety Ambassador
Enhance, our safety-first mindset in everything we do! Be a role model for our fundamental culture of associate safety and overall compliance with both internal and external Health & Safety guidelines and laws.
  • Operational Oversight
Provide leadership and direction to the logistics team, ensuring smooth and efficient day-to-day operations while implementing transformative changes to improve performance and efficiency
  • Supply Chain Planning
Support the Director of Supply planning in streamlining planning process to optimize total Supply Chain, driving down costs, creating efficiencies and strong fill rates.
  • Strategic Transformation
Lead and drive transformative initiatives to optimize the company's logistics operations, including process reengineering, digitalization, and adoption of emerging technologies to enhance efficiency and agility.
  • Maintain and enhance a lean and cost-effective Logistics network throughout Canada
This role will be responsible for delivering continuous improvements in direct transportation costs leveraging the most current operating systems, and by engaging and retaining a highly skilled and agile workforce. Supporting the Bimbo Canada logistics, field sales and commercial teams with necessary plant to route to market insight and support for current and future products is also a key responsibility.
  • Strategic leadership for the entire Bimbo Canada Logistics Team
This role is critical to provide not only strategic, but effective and decisive leadership to the Bimbo Canada supply chain network. This role is critical to continuously improve our supply chain management operating results (financial and process) and efficiencies while meeting customer expectations, minimizing waste, and effectively managing capital and operating budgets.
  • Develop and maintain effective associate relations
Consistently strive for effective and healthy associate relations, inspiring associates to demonstrate the Grupo Bimbo beliefs, including behaviors designed to unlock discretionary effort and support diversity, equity and belonging opportunities.
  • Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration
Given the global nature of the company, this role must promote a global-minded culture. The person in this role must be naturally oriented towards building bridges and networks with colleagues across the country and around the world. The must ensure that their team is equally broad minded in leveraging and sharing commercial learnings, winning network solutions & processes across regions and markets to capture the most effective utilization of resources and top quality in the supply of baked goods and snacks.
  • Build and strengthen the capabilities of the Logistics Management Team
This executive will inherit a solid team throughout Logistics who love to be challenged to accomplish more. The person in this role must both identify and nurture their capabilities, balancing the need to deliver results with the investment of longer-termskills and capabilities, inspiring the team to achieve their full potential individually and collectively.
  • Become an important member of the President's Executive Team
The person in this role will be an integral and valued member of the Bimbo Canada executive team. This is a collaborative and supportive culture, and the successful candidate will not only need to be seen as providing outstanding supply chain leadership but should also be seen as a true business partner to other members of the team.EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
  • 15+ years of experience in Supply Chain and Logistics with at least 10 of those in a management position
  • Substantial CPG experience, ideally in the food industry, and ideally in a DSD environment
  • Solid understanding of the Canadian landscape and the risks/opportunities in this unique market
  • Master's Degree in Operations Management, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or related field
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills
  • Proven capability operating in a high-speed executional supply chain network
  • Experience working with unionized workforce
  • Sytems experience with Oracle, WMS, PCdata, etc.
  • Must possess computer knowledge in Microsoft office applications
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:Leadership SkillsThis is a role for a top-caliber operational supply chain leader with a proven record of accomplishment and a demonstrated ability to elevate the total manufacturing capabilities of an organization in order to right size costs and support revenue and profitable growth.Functional proficiency in supply chain management, as evidenced by a track record of delivering significant and sustained production quality and profitable growth in comparable food and beverage businesses. This person will bring substantial experience and success in fast paced, large scale and multinational operations environments with a desire to leverage cross-functional leadership to drive the entire organization ahead for commercial success.Strategic thinker with outstanding commercial partnership skills, as evidenced by the ability to understand the fundamental business drivers throughout the supply chain network, anticipating change and seeing competitive opportunities in an evolving landscape. The successful candidate will have a history of identifying strategic gaps and opportunities and leveraging them to drive winning alternatives, innovation, or an improvement of practices. This person will be able to point to examples of disruptive and incremental improvements that impact the broad business and not be myopic to the logistics function.Results achiever, as evidenced by the ability, determination, and tenacity to move major initiatives forward, injecting pace and focus through stretch targets, engagement, and empowerment.Influencing skills and intercultural sensitivity, as shown by powerful communication, courage of conviction, and persuasion skills that have created a successful track record of building credible relationships across multiple styles, approaches, and cultures. Working well between different cultures/perspectives, this individual will demonstrate the ability to build trust, create impact without direct authority, define thinking and achieve collective buy-in.People-oriented Leadership, as evidenced by the ability to attract, motivate, and develop talent at multiple levels and leverage teams effectively across an entire Company. The successful candidate will have shown the ability to create an environment of high achievement and personal accountability where individuals take initiative and push themselves beyond their comfort zone.Please note all offers of employment at Bimbo Canada are conditional on the successful completion of appropriate background checks (including but not limited to criminal history, reference, credit and/or physical demands checks) as appropriate for the role and as permitted by law.Bimbo Canada is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, equity and belonging in the workplace, and encourages applications from qualified people of all genders, visible minorities, aboriginal peoples and persons with disabilities. We welcome applications from all interested individuals; however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
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