Operations Strategy & Transformation Senior Manager – Danone Canada
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Mission:The Operations Strategy & Transformation Sr Manager leads the strategic planning for operations and act as the primary Operations point of contact for the company's long-term strategic plan.
His mission also consists in leading the digital transformation roadmap of the Operations department of Danone Canada, developing Data & Analytics capabilities while implementing new automated processes and leveraging Ai technology throughout our digital journey
He is building and leading the long-term vision for network sourcing, ensuring the optimization of the logistics network to enhance profitability and resilience.In collaboration with marketing Teams, he is supporting the exploration of new innovations and managing major CAPEX projects to support growth and drive operational excellence.
This role involves being the go-to person for key sustainability operations projects consolidation and animation, The role also includes driving breakthrough solutions for major logistics productivity topics
Specific Tasks:- Operations and Danone Canada Enterprise Strat Plan:
- Lead the strategic plan for operations and be the point of contact for the company's long-term strategic plan.
- Animate the long-term capacity check process and initiate the roadmap of capabilities/capacity creation to support our business growth
- Logistic Network Optimization to improve sustainability, increase resilience and drive profitbaility:
- Lead logistics network optimization projects and animate cross-functional project team
- Animate network projects steering committee
- Build and lead the long-term vision for network sourcing
- Lead Business Continuity mapping process to initiate required sourcing resiliency projects
- Support Exploration of long-term innovations projects:
- Be the Operations point of contact for marketing team in the exploration of new innovations
- Lead and coordinate the construction and approval of major CAPEX projects
- Lead Sustainability for Operations:
- Be the reference and leader for the consolidation of key sustainability projects
- Lead the Operations Sustainability steering committee to drive and ensure the progress our carbon reduction objectives
- Breakthrough ideas:
o Benchmark and work with external partners to identify the pipeline of long term network and logistic productivity projects
- Digital Transformation - Build the future of Supply Chain:
o Lead and animate the Supply Chain departments and IT teams in deploying our Digital Transformation roadmap such as implementing tasks automation and centralizing our scorecards and dashboards.
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The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and competencies:- Bachelor's and/or master's degree in business administration, operations & logistics management or other relevant field.
- 5 to 8 years of professional experience in operations and/or supply chain.
- Professional experience in a consumer goods company and good knowledge and understanding of Supply Chain stakes and network changes implications.
- Bilingual
- Strong Analytical Skills, Capability to turn figures into insights and actions.
- Strong Knowledge and use of Excel (Power BI and coding language are an asset).
- Good Financial Skills to build business case.
- Collaborative with strong Leadership skills.
- Resilience, positive attitude and implicated.
- You will work for a certified B Corp company that has been named one of Canada's top 100 Employers for five consecutive years. In other words, you will be immersed in a culture that is rich and engaging, inclusive and human-centric, efficient and eco-responsible.
- You will benefit from our benefits package including collective insurance with a core health plan 100% paid and no waiting period. We also provide flexible credits for a wellness account, a health spending account or an RRSP. Additionally, we offer a competitive group retirement savings plan in which Danone will match your contributions. Our exceptional parental leave policy supports both primary and secondary caregivers. Our employee assistance program and telemedicine service are also available to ensure your well-being.
- You will enjoy our flexible and hybrid guidelines that let you design a work model and schedule that best suits your needs. Our innovative and flexible vacation policy allows you to take as much paid time off as you need. We also offer, among other things, a summer schedule and no-meeting Friday afternoons. Our onsite workplace features include new, dynamic and collaborative working spaces where it is good to work as a team.
- You will have access to various training initiatives, both in-house and online because we value and prioritize your growth and development. We also offer mentoring, leadership development programs and tuition reimbursement to support your career advancement.
- You will have the opportunity to make a difference in the community as we are a founding partner of the Breakfast Club of Canada. For 25 years, we have worked with the organization to provide children with regular access to a nutritious breakfast in a comfortable environment, helping them reach their full potential.
What are you waiting for? Join our team and enjoy these exceptional benefits!
Danone Canada is a business unit of Danone and operates from headquarter offices in Boucherville, Quebec, and Toronto, Ontario. Danone Canada is the country’s largest consumer-facing B Corporation, demonstrating that the company meets the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.From year to year, Danone is recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for its forward-thinking work environment and was awarded the Parity Certification Women in Governance for our commitment towards gender equality in the workplace. We have 500+ employees across Canada that are engaged and energized to deliver Danone’s mission: Bringing health through to food to as many people as possible, by working on strong brands such as Activia, Oikos, Danone, Silk, International Delight and many others.
Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.
Danone Canada doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to cultural background, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression or age.Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all our employees share the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect.
Danone Inc. is committed to complying with its obligations under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Danone Inc. will make reasonable efforts to provide accommodation throughout its recruitment process, to the point of undue hardship, and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.Questions concerning the availability of accommodation in the recruitment process may be forwarded to INFORMATION@danone.com.
Please note that this posting has been written in the masculine form solely to shorten the text. We promote diversity and encourage all people with the skills mentioned in this posting to apply for this position.