The Role
Grand River Foods is a leading food solutions company serving customers in the North American grocery and food service industry. As a member of the Sunrise Farm family, we remain as dedicated as ever to both providing a quality work environment for our employees, as well as producing only the highest quality products for our customers. We are known for the great care we take with clients and employees alike.
Role:
We are seeking an experienced supply chain professional to lead and manage end-to-end planning, inventory control, and forecasting for a multi-plant food manufacturing operation. This role supports retail, food service, and industrial channels across meat, dairy, and plant-based products. The ideal candidate is analytically driven, process-focused, and capable of managing cross-functional teams, vendor relationships, and performance metrics, while fostering a collaborative and solutions-oriented workplace culture.
Responsibilities:
- Demand Planning in a high volume environment with frequent changes in customer requirements
- Forecasting with older system tools and cross-functional collaboration
- Real-time data analysis to anticipate and mitigate gaps or surpluses
- Production planning and scheduling across multiple lines and facilities, balancing constraints such as labor, equipment uptime, and material availability, often making fast adjustments due to unforeseen disruptions
- Manage supplier sourcing, negotiation, and purchasing to ensure fast, cost-effective procurement under tight deadlines
- Oversee all shipping, receiving, and consumables inventory (on-site and off-site) to maintain constant supply flow in a high-pressure environment
- Inventory management of raw ingredients and finished goods, using a hands on approach to reconcile discrepancies and prioritize urgent issues that impact production
- Delivers concise, actionable reports and insights to leadership, often under time pressure, to support rapid operational and strategic decisions
- Leads structured but fast-paced meetings with internal teams and stakeholders to review backorders, aging reports, purchase orders, production schedules, and delivery ETAs, ensuring alignment and swift resolution of outstanding issues
Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in Supply Chain Management, with demonstrated exposure to multiple functional areas such as production and demand planning, and inventory control
- Sales forecast-to-planning analysis, including evaluating demand trends, inventory consumption, and developing seasonal putdown strategies to optimize market advantage and plant capacity utilization
- Degree/Diploma in Supply Chain Management or industry-related (Purchasing, Procurement, Logistics)
- MRP/ERP system experience
- Previous experience managing a team of direct reports and ability to assess required labor increases/reductions
- Collecting relevant data on productivity and customer demand to improve, identify change, and improve supply chain processes
Competencies
- Strong critical thinking and communication skills (written and verbal) to share ideas and influence others, including the senior management team
- Adaptability in a fast paced, constantly evolving work environment, with the ability to remain focused, organized and effective amid shifting priorities and operational challenges
- Ability to implement new business strategies with strong change of leadership skills
- Ability to achieve successful strategic change and innovation
- Coach and mentor Supply Chain team members to enhance performance and to develop high-potential employees of the future
- Evaluate business risk, and work with executive committees
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At Sunrise Farms we are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other identifying characteristic are encouraged to apply.
Please note that the expected new hire salary range provided is derived from a group of like roles within Sunrise Farms. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.
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The Company
What We Do
Sunrise Farms is a group of companies with primary focus in the poultry industry including: hatchery operations; poultry farming; primary processing; further processing; and distribution of food across Canada.
From the humble beginnings of one small processing facility in Surrey, British Columbia in 1983, we have since grown to serve a wide range of customers, both domestically and internationally. Our Canadian family owned and operated businesses produce quality food products from processing plants located in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.
Included in our businesses are:
- Sunrise Poultry Processors Ltd. - produces fresh and frozen poultry protein
- Grand River Foods Ltd. - produces ready to eat food products
