Our Client is a leading Canadian food manufacturer renowned for its high-quality, innovative, and award-winning products. With a national footprint spanning multiple production facilities, distribution networks, and customer channels, the organization is executing an ambitious transformation agenda focused on operational excellence, modernization, and sustainable growth.

This is a pivotal executive leadership role at the centre of our client's transformation journey. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Operations and Supply Chain, the Vice President, Supply Chain will lead the end-to-end supply chain function, shaping and executing the enterprise supply chain strategy while ensuring exceptional service, operational resilience, and cost competitiveness. The mandate encompasses integrated business planning, demand and supply planning, inventory management, logistics, transportation, customer supply chain, and business transformation initiatives. The successful candidate will champion modernization efforts, strengthen planning capabilities, optimize network performance, and build the organizational capacity required to support long-term growth.

Success in this role will require balancing strategic vision with operational excellence. The Vice President will drive key transformation initiatives, including technology enablement, planning process enhancement, and supply chain network optimization, while fostering strong cross-functional partnerships across Operations, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, Quality, Engineering, and Human Resources. The role is accountable for delivering service, cost, inventory, and working capital objectives while cultivating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

This individual will help position the supply chain function as a strategic competitive advantage, enabling business growth, strengthening customer satisfaction, and supporting enterprise-wide decision making.

The ideal candidate is a strategic and commercially minded supply chain executive with a demonstrated track record leading complex, multi-site supply chain networks within food manufacturing, dairy, consumer packaged goods, or other service-sensitive, demand-driven environments. They bring deep expertise in integrated business planning, inventory optimization, logistics, transportation, and network design, coupled with experience leading large-scale transformation, technology implementation, and continuous improvement initiatives. Equally comfortable in the boardroom and on the plant floor, this leader excels at influencing stakeholders, developing teams, and driving results through complexity and change. Strong financial acumen, exceptional leadership capabilities, and the ability to translate strategy into execution are essential.

This is a publicly advertised job posting for an existing vacancy.

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To Apply

To fill this position, our Client has partnered with leadership advisory firm Odgers. Applications are encouraged immediately and should be submitted online.

We thank all those who express an interest, however only those chosen for further development will be contacted.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Our Client is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with the Accessible Canada Act, 2019 and all applicable provincial accessibility standards, upon request, accommodation will be provided by both Odgers and our Client throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities.

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