Production Analyst

About Our Company

Giraffe Foods Inc. (www.giraffefoods.com) is the industry leader in custom, private label manufacturing of sauces, dips, salad dressings and drink concentrates. We are culinary-focused and customer-driven. We anticipate and respond to the ever- changing industry demands addressing on-trend dietary needs with world-class product development and customer service. Our commitment to our employees and to contributing to the food community in North America has strengthened over our twenty years of growth and expansion.

Our products can be found under Private Label in local and national groceries, multi-unit restaurant operations, and other food manufacturers across the US and Canada. We supply a vast range of chef-created sauces and dressings for meal kits, frozen meals, restaurant entrees and salads and salad kits. Though you may not know Giraffe Foods yet, you certainly know our customers and have most likely already enjoyed some of our delicious products without realizing it.

Proud to be chosen as Canada’s Great Place to Work, Giraffe Foods boasts a strong leadership team and enjoys a mutually beneficial partnership with our global parent company Symrise, headquartered in Germany.

The Position
(20-month contract)

The Production Analyst performs various functions in collaboration with the sales team, quality team, R&D, and finance team and ensures the timely and accurate flow of production information and control functions.

Key Accountabilities

▪ Responsible for developing standardized and custom reports.
▪ Complete reports and distribute to management team by scheduled date and time.
▪ Responsible for developing models and reporting structures that identify production rates, yields, etc.
▪ Perform plant production analysis.
▪ Develop tools aimed at improving production efficiencies.
▪ Calculate performance against established KPIs for numerous cross-department results, including safety, quality, cost, and service.
▪ Interface with manufacturer to provide product delivery support to customers.
▪ Collect, compile, and present manufacturing progress and status report on weekly basis, or as requested.
▪ Serve as a contact and interface for sales information requests.
▪ Manage, track, and prepare delivery, and spare inventory orders; handle any return-for-credit process and assist with the inventory reconciliation process.
▪ Responsible for maintaining MS Office Excel or PowerPoint reports and documents.
▪ Required to provide support during peak fulfillment periods to meet financial targets.
▪ Work closely with Inventory and Production teams to ensure traceability and proper product flow and consumption is maintained.
▪ Perform product reconciliation and margins analysis.

Required Skills & Qualifications

▪ Bachelor’s degree or related work experience in a production environment.
▪ 3-5 years’ work experience in a manufacturing/production environment.
▪ Strong initiative: ability to take the initiative and review current process and provide improvements.
▪ Advanced computer skill relevant for data management; this includes experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), as well as database tools (Salesforce, etc.)
▪ Excellent Interpersonal skills:
▪ Communication skills: must have the capacity to develop reports and communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner.
▪ Organization and time management skills: The Production Analyst position is a time sensitive one, hence analyst must be able to simultaneously handle multiple assignments as well as work with others to achieve the desired outcome within the stipulated timeframe.

▪ Excellent investigative skills to identify performance gaps and corrective actions where required.
▪ Agile and able to react nimbly to unscheduled requests.

Interested candidates may apply on-line or submit resume to jobs.giraffe@symrise.com

We thank everyone for their expression of interest—and are truly appreciative of the time individuals put into applying—but with the limitations of time only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Giraffe Foods Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal treatment of all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, pregnancy, age, disability/handicap, record of offences, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodation measures during any aspect of the recruitment process, we will work with you to address your needs. Information related to accommodation measures will be treated as confidential.

Job Type: Fixed term contract

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (required)

Experience:

• manufacturing/production work environment: 3 years (required)
• food manufacturing industry: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person