Sunrise Farms is hiring a
Supply Chain Manager

Job Description:

• 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.


• POSITION SUMMARY: The ideal candidate will have Supply Chain Management, Inventory Control, Full Cycle Planning and Forecasting experience to manage and support retail, foodservice, and industrial sales in further processed food manufacturing facility involving meat, dairy, and plant-based proteins. This individual is analytically minded with a knack for streamlining processes and can manage staff, vendor/material requirements, accountability, and performance within a cross functional, multi-plant environment.


• PRIORITY: Leading, developing, implementing, and managing plant supply chain activities to maximize the service fill performance to our customers, with an ongoing requirement to maximize the productivity of our plant. Promote a healthy work culture ensuring solutions-based thinking and a cross-functional ‘all for one’ team environment.

Requirements:

• Demand Planning
• Forecasting
• Scheduling
• Purchasing/Procurement
• Logistics - Shipping/Receiving/On-Hand consumables inventory
• Raw, Ingredient, and Finished Goods Inventory management
• Provides regular updates and status reports to management
• Hold regular team-based meetings to review backorders, aging reports, purchase orders, production schedules and ETAs with direct team and shared stakeholders

Benefits of Why You Would Want This Job:

• 5 years of progressive experience; desirable to have touchpoints in multiple, if not all, functional areas of Supply Chain management
• Ability to perform rudimentary sales forecast to planning analysis: demand trends, inventory usage, seasonal putdown strategies for market advantage/capacity utilization development plans
• Degree/Diploma in Supply Chain Management or industry related
• 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