Director of Supply Chain
Hazelwood, MO
Full Time
Executive
Director of Supply Chain
Job Title: Director of Supply Chain
Department: Supply Chain
Reports To: VP of Operations
Site: Hazelwood, MO
FLSA Status: Exempt
The activities of Cerelia North America are split over 6 different locations:
At the core of Cérélia’s strategy, our corporate responsibility focus points include the reduction of our environmental footprint, a responsible sourcing policy, the improvement of the nutritional profile of our products, and finally the development & engagement of our associates.
Cerelia expects and supports its associates to demonstrate the following core values:
Cérélia's newly established Frozen Breakfast Business Unit is driving an ambitious growth strategy, backed by two manufacturing facilities: US Waffle in Liberty, SC, and in Hazelwood, MO. To effectively support the rapid scaling of operations at our state-of-the-art Hazelwood facility, Cérélia is seeking a dynamic and skilled Director of Supply Chain to join our team in Hazelwood, MO.
The Director of Supply Chain will serve as the single point of accountability for forecasting, planning, inventory, logistics, and overall supply chain execution, ensuring alignment between customer demand, production capabilities, inventory strategy, and business objectives.
Job Qualifications:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
This is a Full Time Exempt 40 hour per week position, and it may require working additional hours depending on the needs of the business.
This position may require minimal travel
Job Title: Director of Supply Chain
Department: Supply Chain
Reports To: VP of Operations
Site: Hazelwood, MO
FLSA Status: Exempt
Company Profile - Cérélia Bakery
Cérélia North America is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario (Canada), which was incorporated in 1983. Cérélia’s key businesses are food manufacturing of cookies, rolled dough and pancakes/waffles for retail, food services and brands. Cerelia North America employs approximately 900 associates.The activities of Cerelia North America are split over 6 different locations:
- Toronto, Ontario (CAN): 2 factories and 1 distribution Center (cookies)
- Whitehall, Ohio (USA): 1 factory (cookies & rolled dough)
- Liberty, South Carolina (USA): 1 factory (pancakes & waffles)
- Hazelwood, Missouri (USA): 1 factory (pancakes & Waffles)
- San Francisco, California (USA) 2 factories
At the core of Cérélia’s strategy, our corporate responsibility focus points include the reduction of our environmental footprint, a responsible sourcing policy, the improvement of the nutritional profile of our products, and finally the development & engagement of our associates.
Cerelia expects and supports its associates to demonstrate the following core values:
- Entrepreneurial Spirt: “Every day is an opportunity”
- Together with Cerelia: “Building our success together”
- Commitment: “Positive energy in everything we do”
Summary
Cérélia's newly established Frozen Breakfast Business Unit is driving an ambitious growth strategy, backed by two manufacturing facilities: US Waffle in Liberty, SC, and in Hazelwood, MO. To effectively support the rapid scaling of operations at our state-of-the-art Hazelwood facility, Cérélia is seeking a dynamic and skilled Director of Supply Chain to join our team in Hazelwood, MO.
The Director of Supply Chain will serve as the single point of accountability for forecasting, planning, inventory, logistics, and overall supply chain execution, ensuring alignment between customer demand, production capabilities, inventory strategy, and business objectives.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop long-term supply and capacity plans, identifying future constraints, capital requirements, warehouse storage needs
- Develop and manage the annual supply chain budget, including inventory carrying costs, freight expenses, warehousing costs, procurement savings, and working capital objectives.
- Own the weekly/monthly demand planning and forecasting process, partnering with Sales, Operations, and Finance to develop and maintain an accurate forecast.
- Own planning processes within Plex, master data accuracy, inventory visibility, and system utilization.
- Lead strategic sourcing activities, supplier negotiations, contract management, and cost reduction initiatives to ensure security of supply and competitive pricing.
- Oversee customer order management and fulfillment processes, ensuring service level targets, OTIF performance, and customer communication regarding supply constraints or risks.
- Lead supply planning activities, ensuring material availability, production capacity alignment, and inventory optimization to support customer demand.
- Work closely with production planning and scheduling processes, balancing customer service, inventory, labor, and operational constraints.
- Develop and maintain inventory policies, safety stock strategies, and replenishment parameters to support customer service and inventory targets.
- Identify, communicate, and mitigate supply chain risks related to materials, capacity, suppliers, transportation, inventory, and customer demand.
- Manage supplier performance through key metrics including fill rate, on-time delivery, quality, responsiveness, and service.
- Work with warehouse operations and third-party logistics providers to ensure seamless execution across the network.
- Establish and report key supply chain KPIs, including forecast accuracy, service level, OTIF, inventory turns, inventory accuracy, supplier performance, logistics costs, and working capital performance.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across planning, inventory management, logistics, customer service, and supply chain processes to improve service, reduce costs, and increase operational efficiency.
Core Competencies
- Initiative: Initiates courses of action that will lead to improved performance/effectiveness of the Business Unit Team. Sees a need and takes action to address; questions the way things are done and initiates changes where necessary; sticks with an issue until it is resolved
- Information Seeking: Investigates and researches information, digs to resolve discrepancies; obtains information or opinions internally and externally to gain insight or expertise – makes well informed decisions.
- Listening, Understanding & Responding: Demonstrates the ability to interact effectively with staff, other team members, customers and external contacts. Defers judgment on what someone is saying until they have they have thoroughly investigated; creates opportunities for meaningful discussion; builds rapport, trust and strong working relationships up, down and across organization.
- Flexibility: Demonstrates the ability to adapt and work within a variety of situations, and with various groups and individuals; adapting one’s approach as the requirements of a situation.
- Self-confidence: Willing to take on a new challenge or assignment displaying confidence and enthusiasm; emphasizes the positive and upside aspects of difficult situations – every situation provides an opportunity for learning.
- Results Orientation: Strives to beat or meet project deadlines; sets own high standards for quality of work; seeks ways to use time and resources more cost effectively; highly organized with the ability to set priorities and multi-task.
- Teamwork: Works cooperatively with others promoting team participation as a mean to generate more ideas, greater consensus & engagement and a higher level of commitment to delivering results.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or Supply Chain (or related discipline).
- Minimum 5-10 years of supply chain experience
- Proven expertise in transport optimization
- Ability to lead and engage cross functional teams
- ERP implementation experience is preferred but not required
- Experience within the food industry is preferred but not required
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other departments and build strong working relationships, combined with an approachable disposition
- Enthusiastic learner and proactive individual with the ability to effectively manage various projects concurrently
- Strong time management and organizational skills. A results-oriented individual with excellent problem solving and organizational skills and the ability to multi-task and deliver high-quality results within specified time frames
- Attention to detail, ability to prioritize and make judgments, and a sense of urgency will be important to the candidate’s success
- Must be comfortable working in an entrepreneurial spirited, fast-paced and changing workplace environment with a desire to make a strong impact on the business
- Must have excellent initiative, be a self-starter with a keen attention to details
Direct Reports
The Director of Supply Chain will have direct responsibility for managing the following roles:- Manager, Supply Chain
- Manager, Warehouse
Other duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a Full Time Exempt 40 hour per week position, and it may require working additional hours depending on the needs of the business.
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This position may require minimal travel
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