Jobs at Riverside Natural Foods Ltd.

Provide regulatory guidance and technical support across Quality, R&D, Marketing, and Sales to ensure ingredient, packaging, and product compliance with domestic and international food laws, claims, and certifications. Prepare product label reports, manage registrations and renewals, review ingredient/artwork, liaise with external certifiers (Gluten Free, Kosher, Non-GMO, Organic, Vegan, RSPO), and maintain regulatory databases and documentation.

Support supplier sourcing, onboarding, and compliance (Sedex) while maintaining contracts and records in SAP/MDG. Track corrective actions, coordinate cross-functional sourcing projects, and identify process improvements to support responsible sourcing and timely supplier readiness.

Provide financial leadership to the marketing team by delivering analytical and strategic support for growth initiatives, business cases, pricing, product innovation, and brand planning. Lead multi-year strategic planning and the Stage Gate innovation process, develop P&L and margin guardrails, analyze product and channel performance, monitor market and competitive trends, and coach a finance analyst to optimize portfolio and marketing investments.

Build and operate a governed, scalable data fabric integrating SAP, cloud lakehouse, IoT/PLC, syndicated and unstructured data to enable analytics, ML, and Generative AI. Design ELT/ETL and real‑time pipelines, implement data quality, lineage and observability, deploy platform automation (IaC, CI/CD), prepare datasets for LLM fine‑tuning and RAG, and collaborate across business and BT&T to operationalize AI/ML solutions.

Lead food safety and quality improvement initiatives across production by managing incidents, conducting root cause analysis, implementing CAPAs, analyzing SPC data, driving cross-functional corrective actions, monitoring KPIs, training staff, and ensuring compliance with food safety programs and BRC requirements to reduce defects and improve product safety and quality.

Strategically partner with corporate and functional leaders to align people strategy with business goals. Lead organizational design, change management, talent and leadership development, succession planning, performance management, and employee relations. Build scalable HR processes, advise on compensation and compliance, support hiring, and champion culture, engagement, and values to enable growth and high performance.

Lead R&D team to improve product quality, reduce costs, and optimize production processes. Coach technologists and scientists, drive technical excellence, conduct data-driven analysis and sensory validation, troubleshoot factory issues, collaborate cross-functionally, and deliver shelf-life and specification documentation. Support commissioning of equipment and foster continuous improvement and supplier technical relationships.

Support HQ-field sales communication and execution of channel initiatives for the US business. Lead annual sales planning, analyze sales metrics (distribution, shelving, merchandising, pricing), develop category objectives, maintain trackers and SharePoint, coordinate retail tools and commercialization, run regular customer and sales update meetings, and partner cross-functionally to drive profitable growth.

Lead strategic natural-channel accounts across Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Drive revenue, distribution, profitability and trade ROI through account plans, head-office relationships, negotiations, in-market execution, merchandising, promotional compliance, and regular business reviews. Analyze sales data, manage trade spend, and represent the brand at customer meetings and industry events.

Lead end-to-end payroll and benefits delivery for Canadian and US employees, ensure legal compliance, manage payroll calendars and year-end filings, audit and reconcile payroll data, strengthen controls and processes, act as escalation point and liaison with external payroll provider, and partner cross-functionally to improve payroll, benefits, and pension administration.