Royal Canin
Supply Chain Planner - Royal Canin
Puslinch, Canada
Behind every bag of our product is a team of skilled engineers and manufacturing experts dedicated to ensuring the highest quality and safety standards. Whether you're optimizing production lines, designing innovative solutions, or maintaining cutting-edge technology, your work will directly contribute to improving the lives of pets around the world. Make your mark on a team where innovation, precision, and passion come together every day.
- Job Type: varies
- Level: mid-level
- Travel: varies
- Average Salary: $63K-$96K
Success Profile
What makes a successful Supply Chain Planner - Royal Canin at Royal Canin? We look for the right mix of the following traits when speaking with you.
- Analytical
- Curious
- Efficient
- Responsible
- Results-driven
- Team player
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Purpose
Connect your passion for pets to the purpose: A Better World For Pets
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Health & Wellbeing
A comprehensive focus on your individual health & wellbeing
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Inclusion
A place where you can belong and be yourself
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Career development
Professional learning offerings, annual personal development plans, Mars University
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Attractive total rewards
Your financial wellbeing through a competitve salary and bonus plan
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Focus on sustainability
We invest in you so you can make a better world
I take immense pride in leading a team that is passionate about making a difference for pets. Every day, we focus on precision, innovation, and maintaining the highest quality standards. What truly sets Royal Canin apart is the commitment to development—whether it’s advancing our processes, adopting cutting-edge technology, or helping associates grow in their careers. It’s incredibly rewarding to know that our work not only drives success but also creates meaningful opportunities for everyone on the team.
JR Smith North Sioux City Site Director, Global Value Chain Operations
The Supply Chain Planner is accountable for hands-on daily planning responsibilities within assigned portfolio. The role leverages business analysis to drive optimization and deliver objectives in the areas of inventory, service, activity execution and value leadership.
This role is the primary contact point within assigned portfolio, accountable for delivering on-shelf availability through optimized and enabled service of RC Canada business ambitions.
Supports execution of Supply Chain transformation, which drives the development of mid-long-term capabilities that support growth.
What are we looking for?
- University degree or college certification in a related discipline; preference will be given to candidates with backgrounds in Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, or other analytical fields.
- 3–5 years of direct experience in Supply Chain, Inventory Management (required).
- Proven experience collaborating with local and regional peers, as well as Supply Chain leadership teams, to drive operational excellence, achieve cost targets, and support strategic business objectives.
- Advanced Excel, (VBA, Pivot Tables, Complex Modeling, VLOOKUP).
- Intermediate PowerBI.
- MS Suite Experience (PowerPoint).
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Lead the segment SCMR, Sales & Operations Execution (“S&OE”) processes (including Recovery actions when needed) to orchestrate trade-off decisions with cross-functional and leadership teams to optimize SC performance and delivery of strategy.
- Accountable for connectivity of Canadian SCMR and S&OP escalations to Regional SCMR.
- Implement platform SC strategies to deliver against key metrics with other SC functions optimize strategies and tactics while ensuring full consideration/representation of E2E SC.
- Drive WOW effectiveness with Canadian SC Core, Regional SC and affiliates ties to Canadian Network.
- Driving Continuous Improvement culture throughout the Supply Chain.
- Serves as a Thought Leader on continuous quality improvement.
- Monitor critical E2E SC metrics that impact business outcomes and initiate crisis management and/or issue resolution with appropriate SC core/regional resources.
- Track and manage adherence to key KPI, root cause failure, driving counter measure actions.
- Evaluate ongoing production schedules generated by internal or external units to ensure maximum turns, minimal waste, including optimization of system & process planning parameters and solves within planning systems.
- Elimination of inventory waste through SLOB process (slow moving & obsolete stock).
- Identify and drive value leadership opportunities.
- Management & communication of activity deliverables (e.g. seasonal, promotions, innovation, discontinuations) projects as assigned.
What can you expect from Mars?
Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
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