Supply Chain Planner; New Graduates
WonderbrandsPosition: Supply Chain Planner (Open to New Graduates)
Job Posting All About Wonderbrands
Wonderbrands, is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads. We are the makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. We have a network of 14 Bakery Manufacturing facilities across Canada.
Our Next Gen Talent Program Vision and Mission:
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Empowering the Next Generation to create future leaders
The Wonderbrands Next Gen Talent Program supports high‑potential recent graduates as they develop into the next generation of leaders. At Wonderbrands, we believe in home-grown talent and cultivating an entrepreneurial, innovative culture where curiosity, bold thinking, and continuous improvement are embedded in everything we do.
Come join us on our journey to become the world’s great baker!
What Wonderbrands Offers:
• We believe in Home Grown Talent, accelerated career growth with leadership training à Unleashing Your Potential
• Many of our team members who joined us through similar “new graduate” programs were able to accelerate their career growth and reach high levels in our organization within a few years of joining us
• Competitive compensation, health benefits, and a generous flexible medical/health spending account
• Employer matching pension program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - restaurants, gyms, shopping etc.
Summary
Wonderbrands supply planners will report into a team leader, supply planning or a manager, supply planning. Supply planners are responsible for (not in order)
• the detailed master planning of primarily fresh baked goods (breads, rolls, bagels) with some inventoried frozen SKUs, short and long term;
• achieving and maintaining set KPI levels for fill rate, inventory targets and other established metrics;
• open communication, collaboration and engagement with WB key team members including Logistics, Finance, Manufacturing, Customer Center of Excellence, Procurement and Product Life Management;
• participating in continuous improvement goals. This role is in a FAST-paced environment.
Location:
1425 The Queensway, Etobicoke, Ontario
Work Schedule:
The regular work schedule is Sunday–Thursday
. The successful candidate must be flexible to provide coverage over long weekends and statutory holiday periods
, as required by business needs.
On-call availability outside of regular working hours is also required to respond to urgent supply, inventory, or delivery escalations.
Primary Responsibilities
• Short term daily and long term weekly master planning and all related activities for a specified product category (bread, rolls, alternatives, frozen) including timely distribution of information
• Short and long term analysis for capacity and inventory requirements
• Maintain and improve fill rate and financial obligations (including post production waste) as set by WB leadership
• Understand, identify and root cause KPI misses for opportunities to improve trends
• Participation and/or leadership in key meetings as required.
• Develop key relationships with other WB team members including Manufacturing sites, Logistics and Demand Planning
• Planning and replenishing central ingredients and packaging items on a weekly basis using planning tool/SAP MRP
• Create Purchase orders with the suppliers and monitor weekly Purchase orders which are due for delivery
• Work with PLM and bakeries for the new project launches and ensure timely placement of Pos to the suppliers ensuring inventory availability throughout the network
• Develop and maintain relationships with existing and potential buyers and suppliers to the organization along with maintaining supplier score cards and having discussions with suppliers on service levels periodically
• Develop processes to improve inventory accuracy for all…