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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

• Development of recommendations of long range plans for network optimization - provide supply chain expertise to internal parties (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Legal) in order to influence business strategies.
• Develop and evaluate supply strategies using optimization tools and knowledge of operations in order to maximize return on investment and while minimizing additional logistics cost.
• Be the first point of contact into Supply Chain to provide direction to commercialization on new innovation. Support the building of the business case for new packages, line extensions or products.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Leading a supply chain team responsible for production planning of 3 facilities and deployment of approximately 325 sku’s to a total of 19 distribution centers
• Responsible for the development, support and execution of the functions of production planning and for the distribution of all produced, non-produced and purchased full goods to facilities across Western Canada
• Strategically developing and managing the Western Canada business units inventory targets to attain inventory working capital guidelines, high distribution efficiency, and superior customer service levels
• Developing long term execution plan that considers the complexity of manufacturing, capacity, sourcing, demand variability, lead time, and third party warehouse spend

Toronto, Canada Area

• Shared and replicated best practices in BD&L across multiple regions. Improved productivity and capability of the workforce through training, process improvement and implementing relevant best practices
• Supported region BD&L improvement activities and ensured the adherence and compliance to recommended national processes and procedures
• Worked across functional groups and locations, using the OE improvement approach to achieve the targeted results for assigned projects and ensured sustainability of the results
• Analyzed BD&L opportunities to identify root causes, defined improvement activities, and quantified impact
• Worked with cross-functional teams to redesign/improve operational system flow - implemented the proper metrics and measurements to drive and document improvements

Toronto, Canada Area

• Lead the execution of national new brand launches, promotions and brand development within CABU for CCR and franchise partners (sparkling flavors and energy portfolio categories)
• Provided data to support, validate and interpret profitability and feasibility analysis
• Lead development and communication of selling and execution tools – operating plans, sell sheets, execution elements
• Collaborated with Supply Chain, Procurement, and Manufacturing to ensure proper product supply to support programming, and monitor finished goods relative to discontinued items to avoid BD&L expense
• Managed cross functional teams to align actions with aligned project plan

• Managed the distribution center of approximately 80 drivers and 8 management employees
• Responsible for developing, executing the full implementation of efficiency strategies and initiatives
• Managed within a Collective Agreement, including grievances, contract negotiations, and arbitration
• Responsible for the Management of all government statues ensuring full compliance within daily activities
• Developed/implemented internal policies and procedures to ensure effectiveness and improve efficiencies
• Responsible for ensuring full and complete compliance with Health/Safety – training and development

Toronto, Canada Area

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