Product Owner, Transportation
McCain Foods
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Moving the transformation needle a little bit every day.
- Owning the future of your technology stack.
- Striving for simplicity and elegance.
- Anticipating the needs of the business team and leading the thinking on the product roadmap.
- Feedback and realizing it is a gift.
- Continuous improvement and delivery mindset.
- Challenging the status quo and having to say “not now” sometimes.
- Facilitating prioritization discussions across various team members and stakeholders.
- Live our leadership principles of: Customer obsession. Thinking big and planning ahead. Acting like an owner. Bringing the best out of people.
- Being honest, holding yourself and others accountable.
- Thinking glo-cally to offer process standardization opportunities.
- Seeking and building the trust of your team, your stakeholders and your user community.
- Moving fast and breaking things (not too badly!).
- Not taking yourself too seriously and having fun!
- Transformation and bringing your stakeholders along the journey.
- Developing features, user stories and with very clear success criteria.
- Crafting simple and elegant solutions which delight the user community.
- Leading Supply Chain Technology transformations in leading technologies.
- Enrolling a business community into feeling a sense of agency in their solution platforms and outcomes.
- The consumer products (CPG) industry.
- Living the Agile mindset and creating working products.
- Setting your own goals, measuring success, and learnings from shortfalls.
- Investing in yourself and continuously developing your knowledge of technology trends.
- Communicating up, down and across.
- Anticipating the needs of your business stakeholders.
- Foreseeing and mitigating risk.
- Near-term horizon supply chain and customer facing processes:
- Customer Supply Chain (Outbound TMS)
- Customer Deliveries
- Customer Pick Up
- Appointment Scheduling and Warehouse Integration
- Complaints and Returns
- Intermodal transportation (OTR FTL, LTL)
- Internal Network Transportation (Transfers TMS)
- Cost-Optimal Tuck Load Building
- Dedicated transfer lane management
- Inter-company business (Rail, Ocean, OTR)
- Material Supply Transportation (Inbound TMS)
- Multi-Source, Multi-Destination Lane Optimization
- Supplier OTIF
- Transportation Performance
- Transportation Cost Performance
- Carrier Performance
- Carrier Sourcing and RFP/Qs
- Relevant technology. Here are some examples.
- SAP ECC or S/4 HANA Sales & Distribution
- SAP S/4 Basic Shipping
- SAP S/4 VIM
- Advanced TMS (SAP TM, Blue Yonder, E2Open)
- Coupa Sourcing Optimization (for Transportation)
- Enterprise Reporting – Microsoft Azure & Power BI
- Enterprise AI/ML/Modelling for Transportation
- Modern Integration – API Management, Data Ingestion
- Lives our principles every day.
- Reaches high by setting lofty but achievable goals and holds ourselves accountable.
- Holds ourselves accountable.
- Is passionate about transformation and getting better every day.
- Invests in our people.
- Values an inclusive environment and creates a strong of belonging.
- Believes there is only one customer – those who buy our food.
- Loves French fries, hashbrowns and other delicious appetizers.
- Obtained a Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma in Technology / Business / Industrial Engineering / Agriculture, or equivalent work experience.
- Carry 7+ Years of highly relevant experience in the CPG or adjacent industry, holding progressive roles.
- Have the requisite technology experience within an SAP ERP Landscape (see expertise section above)
- Worked and succeeded in both traditional and Agile project delivery framework.
- Have experience working within a Global organization.
- Global/Regional Role: Global
- Direct reports: No
- Hours of work are a regular 40-hour work week, Monday to Friday, with the potential for extended work hours based on business needs.
- Travel: As required / Up to 10%.
Division: Global Technology
Department: Technology Supply Chain Portfolio
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook TerraceCompany: McCain Foods (Canada)