Supply Chain Planning & Optimization Manager

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead Planning Team Performance and Capability

• Lead, coach, and develop the assigned Canada planning team, with clear accountability for planning quality, execution discipline, business partnership, and planner capability.
• Strengthen assumptions-based planning across relevant business horizons, planning levels, and cross-functional inputs.
• Improve forecast, supply, inventory, and planning performance through root-cause analysis, assumptions management, performance routines, and disciplined corrective action.
• Provide planning leadership for innovation, promotions, customer events, portfolio changes, supply constraints, and commercialization activities.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Supply Chain, Demand Science, Supply Planning, Operations, and Planning COE teams to improve planning quality and business outcomes.

2. Lead Canada IBP Governance and Decision Support

• Lead Canada's monthly IBP process, including demand and supply reviews, executive decision-making forums, and risks and opportunities management
• Ensure demand, supply, inventory, capacity, service, and financial assumptions are visible, reconciled, and translated into timely business decisions.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment, clarify trade-offs, and escalate unresolved risks or decisions to the Director of Supply Chain and appropriate leadership forums.
• Develop scenarios and recommendations that quantify volume, mix, service, inventory, cost, margin, and working-capital implications.
• Monitor IBP effectiveness and planning performance, ensuring actions have clear ownership, timing, and follow-through.

3. Modernize Planning Processes and Capabilities

• Serve as Canada’s principal partner to the Planning COE, Demand Science, IT, Project Catalyst, and related planning-transformation teams.
• Establish and maintain an integrated Canada planning roadmap spanning demand, supply, inventory, analytics, systems, data, and IBP capabilities.
• Translate Canadian business requirements into prioritized process, system, data, reporting, and capability improvements.
• Partner with planning, operations, and functional subject-matter experts to ensure COE solutions meet Canadian business requirements and are adopted effectively.
• Simplify planning routines, automate recurring activities, improve planner productivity, and measure benefits through forecast, inventory, service, working-capital, and productivity outcomes.

4. Strengthen Integrated Supply Chain Performance and Partnerships

• Partner with Supply Planning, Manufacturing, Transportation & Warehousing, and Customer Supply Chain to connect demand decisions with supply, inventory, service, and customer outcomes.
• Improve visibility to inventory health, forecast-driven exposure, supply constraints, service risk, and recovery requirements.
• Build strong partnerships with Canadian business teams, the U.S. Planning COE, Mexico, Global Markets Supply Chain, and other North American planning organizations.
• Act as a Canada Supply Chain planning lead in cross-functional discussions, providing insight, constructive challenge, and clear recommendations.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making across the planning community.

Qualifications, Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Engineering, Economics, Logistics, or a related field required; MBA, advanced degree, or APICS/ASCM certification is an asset.
• Minimum 7 years of progressive supply chain planning experience, including leadership of people, projects, or cross-functional planning processes; CPG, food, manufacturing, or complex matrixed experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP/IBP, inventory management, planning analytics, or supply chain transformation.
• Proven success leading cross-functional planning processes and influencing Commercial, Finance, Operations, Customer Supply Chain, and Supply Chain partners.
• Experience implementing planning process, system, analytics, change-management, or capability improvements.
• Strong end-to-end supply chain knowledge, including demand and supply planning, inventory, manufacturing, transportation, warehousing, customer service, and financial trade-offs.
• Deep understanding of S&OP/IBP governance, decision forums, assumptions management, risks and opportunities, and cross-functional alignment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to translate complex data into practical insights, scenarios, recommendations, and leadership narratives.
• Business acumen connecting volume, mix, inventory, service, cost, margin, and working capital.
• Ability to lead through influence, manage conflict, clarify decision rights, and build alignment in a matrixed organization.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, project management, change leadership, and continuous-improvement skills.
• Experience with advanced planning and ERP platforms such as Blue Yonder and SAP, along with Power BI, advanced Excel, or comparable analytics tools, is preferred.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.  The employee frequently is required to stand and walk.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Our Modern Workplace: 
Conagra’s culture of collaboration enhances our ability to meet critical business goals, deliver value to customers and consumers and provide you with the flexibility you need to achieve a better work-life balance. We carefully consider each role and how often each team member needs to collaborate in person. This position requires you to work from our Mississauga office 3 days a week. 

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Compensation:

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits:

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare benefits, mental wellbeing support and wellness spending account
• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, wealth accumulation program and access to discounts
• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
• Balance: Paid-time off, flexible work-schedules, Employee & Family Assistance Program and volunteer opportunities

Our Company:

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like POGO®, VH Sauces® and Orville Redenbacher®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or any other protected factor. Conagra  is committed to working with and providing accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please email Canada.Recruitment@conagrafoods.com. We will make a determination on your request for accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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