Materials Management Analyst

Primary focus is to ensure accurate, consistent, and timely information in our ERP system and create effective controls to mitigate errors and process issues. Position is responsible for accurate, complete and timely input and management of master material data used to support operations, billing, pricing and data components for our ERP system. Coordinates inputs from kitchens and suppliers, uses independent discretion and judgment to analyze data, and works with internal customers to load data into SACS, analyzes and vets data issues, verifies and notifies customers of data availability.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as internal expert and single point of contact for all raw material master data in both the production and development environments.
• Perform SKU/material management to mitigate SKU/Supplier proliferation
• Ongoing SKU rationalization; identifying opportunities for reduction of active SKUs and potential savings on new and existing menus, in collaboration with Sourcing team.
• Support Menu Development and product launch process by acting as point of contact for new and existing materials
• Collaborate with Corporate Procurement and unit Buyers to ensure required materials are sourced and available in SACS for pricing
• Partner with Account Services Group (ASG), to ensure accurate material costs are presented to external Customers
• Maintain accurate materials in Master Plant
• Ability to extract and analyze Materials Management data through SACS reports/queries, including but not limited to purchase volumes, price variances, and compliance discrepancies.
• Develop variance analyses from the data contained in the reports; conducts root cause analyses and resolves issues.
• Checks raw material master data for completeness and accuracy, and follows up on missing or incorrect information.
• Develops, evolves, and enforces guidelines for standardization of Canadian data.
• Maintains material purchase price information and compiles material costing data for use by pricing team.
• Gathers, validates, and transitions raw material master data for new unit implementations, documenting local unit variations on established sourcing and setup.
• Manages daily business communications to develop and maintain accurate master data
• Creates and maintains tools for efficient migration of legacy system data into SACS
• Creates and maintains tools for effective data processing and analysis in our ERP system with an eye towards automation of routine tasks. This enables users to focus their time and resources on tasks with a higher return on time invested.
• Analyzes BOM data for errors prior to and after input, both on existing and new menus.
• Verifies and reconciles sourcing information, and identifying opportunities to optimize ordering strategies at the centers.
• Identifies new methods for optimizing data handling for the Canadian Sourcing team
• Available as a subject matter expert, and providing gap analysis for projects, studies and implementations
• Provides Risk Management input related to MM and MRP data or processes

Qualifications

Education:

• College degree or equivalent, from an accredited institution

Work Experience:

• 2-4 years of SACS, SAP or other ERP system experience
• 2 + year’s of experience in a commercial food environment or business data position.
• Work background in an operations environment

Technical Skills:

• Must be able to understand and apply basic knowledge of an ERP system
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and a solid working knowledge of MS Office
• Solid analytical skills across different functional groups within the organization
• Must have excellent attention to detail
• Must thrive in a team based environment
• Must have the ability and desire to meet required timelines, and be proactive in problem solving
• Food industry and/or culinary knowledge preferable

Language / Communication Skills:

• Ability to communicate well with internal and external customers verbally and in writing

gategroup Competencies Required to be Successful in the Job:

• Thinking - Information Search and analysis & problem resolution skills
• Engaging - Understanding others, Team Leadership and Developing People
• Inspiring - Influencing and building relationships, Motivating and Inspiring, Communicating effectively
• Achieving - Delivering business results under pressure, Championing Performance Improvement and Customer Focus

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Candidates will be required to go through a criminal background check.

gategroup is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or other ground under applicable law.

Gate Gourmet Canada Inc. is pleased to accommodate applicants who have a disability up to the point of undue hardship during the recruitment, assessment and selection process. Please inform our Recruitment Team if you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in the recruitment process.