Strategic Material Planning Leader

Maple Leaf Foods Inc.; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

Defined contribution pension

Learning and development

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer days

Job summary

Maple Leaf Foods is seeking a Material Supply and Planning Manager for the Lagimodiere site to integrate production planning, material supply and inventory management with short-term capacity planning. You will connect demand, plant capacity, product mix, material availability, and constraints to translate requirements into executable plans.

You will lead a team of planners and buyers, collaborate with Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, and Quality Assurance, and drive Maple Leaf

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in production planning, materials management, inventory control, supply chain, or manufacturing operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of production scheduling, capacity planning, material requirements, and inventory management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the site production-planning process and develop realistic, executable manufacturing schedules.
• Balance customer requirements with plant capacity, product mix, labour, material availability, sanitation, maintenance, and other operating constraints.
• Translate production plans into material requirements for raw materials, ingredients, packaging, and indirect supplies.
• Identify material shortages, capacity constraints, inventory risks, and service concerns before they affect execution.
• Coordinate recovery plans when production or material performance deviates from plan.
• Develop scenarios and recommendations for sequencing, inventory builds, overtime, weekend production, and competing priorities.
• Maintain governance over raw material, work-in-process, packaging, ingredient, and other inventories.
• Monitor inventory accuracy, aging, stock rotation, excess inventory, shortages, and write-off exposure.
• Lead assigned physical-inventory processes and ensure variances are investigated and addressed.
• Establish clear daily, weekly, and monthly visibility to planning and material-supply performance.
• Track key measures including schedule adherence, production attainment, material availability, inventory health, capacity versus demand, recovery-plan execution, and customer service.
• Communicate risks, financial impacts, recommended actions, and required decisions to site leadership.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of planners, buyers, and hourly Team Members.
• Establish clear priorities, performance expectations, and accountability.
• Build team capability and confidence through regular coaching, feedback, and development.
• Serve as the primary planning integration point across site and supply-chain functions.
• Influence stakeholders through strong business judgment, credible data, and clear communication.
• Promote collaboration, Team Member ownership, servant leadership, and continuous learning.

Skills

Production planning

Materials management

Inventory control

Supply chain

Team leadership

SAP planning

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Lean manufacturing

Education

Post-secondary education in Supply Chain

Engineering degree

Business degree

Tools

SAP

Job description

Maple Leaf Foods is seeking a Material Supply and Planning Manager for the Lagimodiere site to integrate production planning, material supply and inventory management with short-term capacity planning. You will connect demand, plant capacity, product mix, material availability, and constraints to translate requirements into executable plans.

You will lead a team of planners and buyers, collaborate with Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, and Quality Assurance, and drive Maple Leaf