ATS has grown to represent eight world class Architectural brands. These manufacturers' products can be found in exterior and interior settings within commercial, education, hospitality, medical, and long-term care industries. Our dedicated and knowledgeable internal and external sales staff located across Canada are committed to delivering the highest level of personalized service to architects, designers, engineers, and distributors. Whether it's providing technical information on a specific product, obtaining a quote, or making a purchase, we're here to help with every step of the way!
Executive Summary
The Supply Chain & Procurement Manager will be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end supply chain, procurement processes, and warehouse operations. You will play a vital role in optimizing raw material inventory—specifically phenolic materials—ensuring high adoption of our NetSuite ERP system across production teams, and managing vendor relations to minimize costs and supply chain risks.
Key Responsibilities1. Inventory & Warehouse Operations
- Inventory Optimization: Oversee warehouse operations and inventory strategy to ensure stock levels are continuously optimized from both a purchasing and coordination standpoint. Collaborate with engineering and production to repurpose excess inventory and off cuts.
- ERP Leadership & Adoption: Drive the training, adoption, and consistent usage of NetSuite across all production and operations teams to maintain accurate, real-time inventory and production tracking.
- Process Improvement: Collaborate with process innovation to develop and enforce efficient inventory management processes, minimize shrinkage/waste, and lead regular stock counts and auditing.
- Quality Control: Collaborate with quality management department to ensure compliance of ATS suppliers with in-house quality metrics for materials and hardware. Champion material quality inspection upon delivery.
2. Supply Chain & Purchasing Management
- Strategic Procurement: Manage procurement activities for specialized manufacturing inputs, with a focus on sourcing and purchasing phenolic raw materials and locker components at optimal pricing and quality standards.
- Team Leadership: Direct, mentor, and oversee the Supply Chain Coordinator, ensuring smooth execution of day-to-day sourcing, purchase orders, and logistics tasks.
- Vendor & Claims Management: Build and maintain strong supplier relationships. Process, negotiate, and resolve vendor claims, material non-conformance issues, and shipping discrepancies efficiently.
- Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify supply chain bottlenecks, monitor lead times, and implement contingency strategies to keep production schedules on track.
3. Inventory Strategy & Management
- Inventory Reduction: Lead the strategy and execution of plans to reduce inventory on hand.
- Dead Stock Management: Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for managing 'dead stock'.
- International Vendor Engagement: Commitment to a minimum of 3 weeks of international travel per year to meet with vendors and negotiate inventory deals with their senior leadership.
- Inventory Accuracy: Strategy and implementation to achieve 100% inventory accuracy on hand.
- Financial Optimization: Strategy and implementation for inventory management to hit EBITDA and COGS threshold targets.
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in procurement, inventory management, or supply chain leadership, preferably within a manufacturing, millwork, or cabinetry environment.
- ERP Expertise: Demonstrated, strong working knowledge of NetSuite (inventory management, procurement, and production tracking modules). Experience leading NetSuite training or driving team adoption is highly preferred.
- Material Sourcing: Background in sourcing raw materials (experience with phenolic resins/compact laminate or architectural materials is a major plus).
- Leadership Skills: Proven ability to manage direct reports (Supply Chain Coordinator) and influence cross-functional production teams.
- Vendor Management: Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, and claims processing skills.
- Analytical Mindset: Excellent organization, forecasting, and data analysis abilities.
Your Life and Career at ATS:
ATS is dynamic, industrious, innovative and collaborative. We believe diverse and inclusive organizations create work environments that are inventive and open-minded, where people spark new ideas and explore alternatives. At ATS, we offer the following to make sure you have a rewarding and enjoyable experience:
· This is a new position
Competitive salary
· Career advancement opportunities
· Benefits package for all eligible full-time employees (including medical, vision and dental).
· A culture that promotes a healthy, fulfilling work-life balance
· Free parking
· Foosball, Ping Pong Table & Basketball net
· Gym facilities
· Epic year-round employee events!
TO APPLY: Please email [email protected] and include your resume and salary expectations. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.
To learn more about our company visit our web page: https://spectrum-built.com/ and our promotional video: http://youtu.be/MPyk3BdN-8o
Allied Technical Sales Inc. values diversity and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principles and practices of employment equity and encourage all qualified individuals, including women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, and Aboriginal Peoples to apply. Should you be individually selected to participate in an assessment or selection process, accommodations are available upon request in relation to the materials or processes to be used.
Pay: $95,000.00-$100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
Application question(s):
- What are your salary expectations?
- Are you ok with in office?
- How do you proactively identify and mitigate supply chain bottlenecks to keep production schedules on track?
- Can you describe your level of expertise with NetSuite and provide an example of how you have led or improved its adoption within a team?
- Can you share an example of a time you had to negotiate with a vendor or resolve a complex material non-conformance issue? How did you handle the situation?
Work Location: In person
