Inventory Leader

Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.
You play an important role in the department, maintaining systems and performing tasks and activities that support our continuous improvement (CI) processes and culture. You help with data collection, ensure its accuracy, promote CI progress and keep track of the department KPI scorecards.
How you will contribute
You will:

• Provide training on CI tools and techniques. You will also help departments follow our established daily management system (DMS)
• Help teams collect data or extract it from the system to support CI activities and the DMS
• Facilitate root-cause analysis to address identified losses and departmental KPI scorecard gaps
• Establish new work standards to sustain improvement
• Train and qualify colleagues on CI tools and new work standards resulting from CI activities

What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• CI and high-performance work systems experience
• Strong facilitation and communication skills to support team discussions on CI activities
• Application of lean and/or TPM tools in a factory or operations environment
• Ability to manipulate and validate data in manual and automated systems
• Mastery of Excel and other data analytics tools
• Organized and disciplined to support and educate on the DMS process
• Logical and structured thinking to extract insights from data

What you need to know about this position:
The Inventory Leader is responsible for developing and monitoring systems that ensure inventory integrity from receipt of goods, internal processing, and through to finished goods.
More about this role:

• Develop and manage reports to evaluate inventory accuracy, master data accuracy (BO), rework, and waste levels.
• Maintain and distribute monthly metrics and performance charts.
• Provide procedures, direction, and support to material analysts and operating team members.
• Work with leaders and colleagues to develop a site-specific Materials Management Strategy.
• Work with accounting and manufacturing to ensure systems are in place that allow for inventory integrity from receipt of goods, internal processing, and through to finished goods.
• Establish material handling processes and procedures to maintain the accuracy of master data (BOM) and accurately track ingredient and packaging waste.
• Manage root cause analysis and identify corrective actions (involving people, procedures, and equipment) to achieve world-class measures for materials issues.
• Coordinate activities of analyst and production clerks performing adjustments, movements, and other inventory tasks.
• Provide an awareness of materials management issues and requirements into the new Item and product change control processes to help build accuracy and quality into the program.
• Understand and follow Mondelez Manufacturing food safety systems and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Certification:

• Technical degree/diploma: Engineering, Science, or Business

Job Specific Requirements:

• Proficient with SAP
• Keen analytical and planning skills
• High level of interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to lead and participate in cross-functional teams
• Manufacturing experience is an asset

Travel Requirements

• None

Work Schedule

• Days: Monday - Friday

No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.
Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.
Job Type
Temporary (Fixed Term)
Process excellence
Business Capability