Senior Vice-President - Strategic Sourcing, Development & Innovation
Longueuil, Quebec, Ca
AGROPUR is a $6 billion revenues Cooperative, owned by 3500 Canadian farmers and powered by more than 8000 employees with 40 factories spread across Canada & USA.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:- Member of AGROPUR Cooperative Executive Committee, reporting to CEO- Management of a $1.2 billion purchased spend for AGROPUR Cooperative, for both Canada & US, covering all Direct & Indirect Materials, Goods & Services (except fresh milk), leading a Sourcing team of 30 people.- Responsible for Research & Development, leading the Product Innovation process, heading a R&D team of 25 people.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:- Founded a centralised Strategic Sourcing organization, in a company which did not have a consolidated procurement organization. Recruited more than 25 people over 2 years to set up a high performing organization, able to increase materials productivity from 4 to 20 M$ a year over 3 years.- Set up an inspiring & structured strategic roadmap together with the team to define our mission, ambition & expected achievements over a 3 year period (2014 - 2017). Our roadmap was articulated around our Mission: Drive VALUE through 1. Cost Reduction / 2. Product Innovation / 3. Risk Management.- Transformed the R&D function from Brief Execution to Product Innovation leadership, by creating the INNO by AGROPUR program, with key successes such as the creation of a dedicated INNO Incubator, the launch of AGROPUR 1st INNO Challenge for Open Innovation, or the organization of the 1st INNO Marketplace to better link R&D with Top Management.