Director, Operations Performance

Position Summary:

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer for Sofina Canada, the Director, Operations Performance applies disciplined analytics and entrepreneurial insights to drive superior performance and business excellence across the organization in North America.

Key Accountabilities:

• Key Leader across a 19 Plant/Hatchery Network driving collaboration cross-functionally, with the primary objective to develop, implement, and adopt a continuous improvement focus resulting in superior business results.
• Develop standardized daily, weekly, and monthly KPIs to drive organizational performance, as opportunities are identified in weekly and monthly reviews
• Apply relevant business insights and knowledge to generate sound decision-making within the company’s Operational activities.
• Improve and build better reporting and tools to enable improved decision-making and collaboration across functions
• Identify opportunities through a detailed understanding of the activities underlying costs of operations, and design and implement changes that will maintain competitive advantage.
• Lead collaboration between plants, engineering, and finance to develop better and more timely business cases to facilitate resource investments
• Review and revise the workforce plans /crew guides for each site.
• Support automation projects with business case development and impacts to workforce plans.
• Identify opportunities to optimize the use of temporary labour against permanent labour needs.
• Lead the review and proposal of structure overtime reduction in each site operation.
• Provide guidance and insights to drive simplification, elimination, combination, and reduction of data/multiple data reports across the Operations Network 
• Support and Facilitation of Leadership Standard Work – Continuous Improvement tracking, Efficient and Effective follow-up with Clear Accountability 
• Question with rigor, deep-diving decisions, and challenge the Operations team to improve outcomes.
• Use disciplined analysis, modeling, and forecasting to inspire and drive superior performance. 
• Continuous Improvement of performance reporting and decision-making methodology to support the growing business.
• Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance leaders to manage operating costs and drive operational excellence. 
• Lead Loss Analysis across the Operations and Supply Planning Network
• Serve as a qualifier and trainer for Root Cause Analysis and end to end Loss Analysis
• Development of a Robust On-boarding and Training program for Operations Leaders – Supervisors to VPs

Requirements:

• BA/BS in Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain management or related field
• Relevant post-secondary education in business, engineering or finance with an accounting designation – CPA or MBA is preferred.
• 10 years plus experience in a manufacturing environment within the Consumer Packaged Goods industry is preferred.
• Demonstrated solid business acumen and sound decision-making skills.
• Thoroughness, curiosity, and attention to detail
• Experience with an ERP system and strong computer skills including advanced spreadsheet modeling.
• Travel required as per business need

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