Material Planner

Hilton Foods; Brantford; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Hilton Foods Canada in Brantford, Ontario is seeking a Material Planner to manage all aspects of material planning to achieve Hilton standards of service, production and costs. This role sits within the Planning team and collaborates with Buying, Logistics and Operations.

The role involves forecasting, short horizon planning, supplier tracking, ensuring material availability, and communicating with cross-functional teams to maintain stock control and performance reporting.

Qualifications

• Ability and proven experience in planning.
• Experience in manufacturing, supply chain and retail sector.
• Experience with ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the forecast of the material requirements.
• Check the short horizon material plan (day +0 and day +1).
• Track deliveries and supplier performance.
• Ensure materials are available in time, quantity and quality.
• Communicate with Buying, Intake and Production daily.
• Maintain material stock levels and KPI reporting.

Skills

Planning experience

Manufacturing experience

Supply chain experience

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Job Title: Material Planner

Salary Range: CAD$54,600– CAD$68,250

Working Type: On-Site

We are currently recruiting for a Material Planner. To manage all aspects of the material planning Hilton Foods Canada in order to achieve the required Hilton standards of customer service level, production and primal movements, cost control and primal optimization and to be a strong participant and team player within the Planning team, to the Buying, Logistics and Operations team

Main activities of the business processes

• Create and maintain the forecast of the material requirements
• Check the short horizon material plan (day +0 and day +1)
• Tracking availability from suppliers
• Secures all materials are available in time, quantity, and quality
• Check on material availability during the day
• Check Ingredients shelf life
• Maintain and provide shortage/low code reports
• Monitoring supplier performances

Other Activities, Responsibilities And Tasks

• Part of a positive working environment
• Providing clear results to the Planning manager (reports)
• Track stock management of materials
• Highlights potential material issues to Planning manager/management
• Checks deliveries during day and week
• Communication with Buying/Intake/Production
• Create and maintain a material requirement plan by using the provided planning tools, systems, and procedures
• Ability to reschedule the daily/weekly material planning
• Tracking material stock levels on a daily base.
• Signalling function of potential issues in shortages and lowcodes on Ingredients
• Communication with suppliers, providing forecast and consolidating quantities and delivery dates.
• Tracking deliveries from suppliers (day/quantity)
• Be involved in stock control, procurement and logistics at site.Proactively identify stock shortages, communicating and resolving the issues and advising Planning manager in regarding of purchasing and/or other departments of potential service issues.
• Ensure efficient material plans and timely communication of material planning data to relevant departments.
• Participates in meetings
• Participates in the roster to execute daily operation tasks
• Communication within the team and surrounding departments
• Maintain and report material KPI’s
• Able to cover targeted tasks of other planning team members in case of absence

Key Experience, Knowledge & Skills

• Ability and proven experience in Planning
• Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, retail sector
• Experience with ERP systems

Hilton Foods Canada is committed to building a culture of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees. At Hilton Foods Canada, we welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise the HR representative. All requests for an accommodation and the accommodation measures will be handled in a confidential manner at all times.