Position Title: Procurement Specialist

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Position Location: Florenceville Main 

Requisition ID: 33967 

About the role.

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.

The role is responsible for supporting the execution of the North American material inventory policy across multiple manufacturing locations.  The Procurement Specialist is responsible for ensuring material supply for specific manufacturing locations in NA.   The Procurement Specialist will provide cross functional support in identifying and addressing material risk to protect business attainment & adherence metrics.   

Accountabilities: 

•    Execute the material inventory policy through MRP analytics and purchase order execution aligned with inventory targets.
•    Manage inbound material risk through a defined process to mitigate attainment & adherence impact. 
•    Provide support in the escalation, and resolution of material risk/impact. 
•    Support Procurement S&OE lead, ensuring real time visibility to material risk.   
•    Ensure accuracy of material attainment and adherence reporting for their responsible manufacturing locations. 
•    Provide input to cross functional partners including operations, planning, sales and marketing. 
•    Ensure individual accountability for performance deliverables in their specific location. 
•    Accountability for SMI management to ensure vendors are accountable in the process. 

Qualifications: 

•    Secondary education in business is preferred 
•    Computer Skills - Excel, Word, PowerPoint
•    System Experience - SAP, TMS, Power Bi 
•    Procurement or Supply Chain experience preferred but not required
•    Proven project management experience preferred
•    Demonstrated skills in planning and analysis
•    Role is ideal for a detail-oriented problem solver with excellent prioritization and collaboration skills

Skills: 
•    Linking business needs to leverage scale
•    Client relationship management
•    Financial analysis skills
•    Capacity: Proven ability to plan, organize and manage multiple priorities
•    Business thinking: Able to connect business needs with external capabilities
•    Collaboration: Regarded as a constructive team player and have a strong sense of partnership behavior
•    Analytical thinking: Disciplined and data oriented to gain competitive advantage
•    Strategic thinking: Able to think strategically and plan for the long term
•    Communication: Ability to communicate objectives clearly both in writing and orally
•    Creative & Flexible: Able to evaluate opportunities and respond to changing requirements
•    Ability to work independently when needed, to make sound business decisions, and can accurately balance risks with business needs
•    Diversity mindset: Ability to manage in a matrix organization and across regions and cultures
•    Ability to travel on occasion to McCain plants and Suppliers 

The Procurement Specialist in the North America Procurement Service Center plays a critical role in McCain’s efforts to be a best-in-class purchaser of materials for use in the manufacture of food products, provides strategic supply chain support in the planning, delivery and storage of raw and packaging materials required for production at McCain’s North American plants. This is a Florenceville Main Office, hybrid with mandatory in office days.

About McCain.

At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!

Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.

#LI-Hybrid #LI-SP24

Compensation Package: $52,600.00 - $70,200.00 CAD annually

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.

Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.

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.

 
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Job Family: Procurement      
Division: Global Procurement 
Department: ​Potato NA ​
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol 

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)