Senior Deployment Planner

Position Title: Senior Deployment Planner

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Oakbrook Terrace

Grade: Grade 04

Requisition ID: 39097

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the role.

McCain Foods is looking for a highly motivated individual who can excel in a fast-paced environment and is excited about challenging projects, delivering solutions and working with people. We are seeking a talented, bright and hardworking individual with a proven track record of success.

The position of the Sr Deployment Planner is to oversee network product deployment and is responsible for balancing the product volumes throughout the North American network. The Sr Deployment Planner would work with Supply Chain stakeholders: Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Transportation, Warehouse and Customer Solutions teams to ensure balanced optimization between our service levels, inventory levels and supply chain costs.

The ideal candidate for this position is curious about our business, processes, and understands the importance of service excellence. Must exhibit strong leadership skills, technical skills, analytical capabilities, critical thinking, and verbal as well as written communication skills. Able to work within guidelines and procedures, function effectively under time constraints with changing priorities, and balance multiple activities simultaneously. Must be able to back up Manager as needed and is comfortable with all forms of communication to leadership. The Sr Deployment Planner should be the first point of escalation for Deployment Planners.

What you'll be doing.

• Assist with critical tasks while acting as the first line of escalation to the team
• Assist Distribution Manager with key projects to enhance the deployment process: reporting, system analysis and system enhancement opportunities.
• Work with the Supply Chain Excellence and Business Analyst teams to identify projects and outline business requirements to eliminate manual tasks within the deployment space, act as a subject matter expert through the design, implementation, testing and roll out.
• Help drive KPI's within the Deployment space
• Be the Subject matter expert for S4, EDGE, or other technology projects
• Coordinate resources and liaise between Logistics Services, Transportation, Warehousing, Customer Solutions and Procurement to achieve supply chain goals and initiatives.
• Lead, develop and implement ideas for continuous improvement, with focus on developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Work with Logistics Procurement, Warehousing, and Transportation to plan for upcoming overflow volumes on lanes not currently maintained, call out production downtimes and prebuilds with an improved lead time for distribution planning and smoothing
• Train new and existing employees to effectively perform Deployment Planner duties
• Coordinate with McCain warehouse operations to prioritize inbound STO's within appointment matrixes to maximize customer order fulfillment
• Measure and monitor Case fill service levels for a defined region or customer and take proactive action when targets are not being met
• After-hours, holiday and weekend support coverage as needed
• Maintain excellent working relationships and communicate Deployment team requirements with transportation, warehouses, supply planning, demand planning, customer solutions and Procurement partners
• Coverage for the Distribution Manager and team when needed
• Mentor new hires and Interns
• Other duties as assigned

What you'll need to be successful.

• Ideal candidate will have a University degree with a related major or relevant experience. University degree with Logistics or Supply Chain major Preferred

• 3-5 years Supply Chain experience, familiar with logistics, transportation and warehouse operations

• Effective communication skills (both oral and written) with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization
• Tact and diplomacy ensuring professionalism when dealing with internal customers and outside vendors - ability to build strong relationships
• Results focused with a bias towards action, continuous improvement, and decisiveness
• Self-motivated with Team Player skills, positive attitude, and a desire to learn and grow
• Strong technical skills including working knowledge and proficiency with SAP, BluJay TMS and MS Office
• Thorough, detail oriented with analytical and critical thinking skills
• Customer focused and solutions-oriented

About McCain.

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Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.

Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We're big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.

Compensation Package: $58, $78, USD annually + Bonus eligibility

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs.

Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), pleaselet us knowand we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

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Job Family: Supply Chain & Logistics

Location(s): US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.