AGRI-NEO – JOB DESCRIPTION

Supply Chain Specialist

Member of: Operations Team

Location: Toronto, ON

COMPANY

Agri-Neo’s mission is to help safely feed the world. Our vision to accomplish this is to set new food safety standards with our treatments for many foods. Our first product line is Neo-Pure, which leverages our proprietary technology of liquid formulas and systems that apply our solutions onto spices, seeds, herbs, and nuts in food processing facilities. These solutions control pathogens such as Salmonella and other quality indicator microorganisms (TPC, coliforms, etc.) to ensure the food is safe to eat and to prevent recalls. We have several customers throughout the globe (North America, Latin America, China, and Egypt), including large mainstream food processors that treat food continuously at high throughputs. We are scaling up our products at more mainstream customer sites to ensure that we set new food safety and food quality standards to help safely feed the world.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Supply Chain Specialist is responsible for overseeing and managing the procurement of systems, parts, and solution for Agri-Neo, ensuring efficient procurement, inventory control, transportation, and delivery while optimizing costs and meeting customer demands. Key duties include sourcing and negotiating with suppliers, tracking shipments, managing inventory levels, forecasting demand, and identifying areas for process improvement to streamline operations. The Supply Chain Specialist ensures that the technical products acquired meet the organization's quality standards, cost objectives, and project timelines.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Procurement:

• Demonstrate strong expertise of ERP orders, delivery, shipments, invoices, and payments.
• Drive supplier rationalization, perform impact analysis around change requests, and provide solutions to improve internal processes.
• Creates, manages, and maintains entries for ERP supplier master focused on accuracy and completeness. Works with external and internal parties to drive improvements regarding data quality between companies.
• Develops key relationships with suppliers, sales, distribution, and engineering team for purpose of identifying, qualifying, and managing a highly capable supply base.
• Develops supplier programs with designated Tier 1, Tier 2, targeted suppliers and manages RFP and RFQ execution.
• Develops, maintains, and tracks reporting for minority spend, green initiatives, profitability, and other special reporting projects, and closely monitors supplier quality and performance metrics.
• Maintains and monitors supplier performance and compliance to requirements through supplier scorecards. Reports on supplier diversification and spend diversification metrics.
• Establish and maintain an approved vendor list together with the Management representatives.
• Act as an interface between suppliers and other relevant departments on the purchasing process and new projects and activities.
• Monitor and advise on any issues which may present risk or opportunity to the organization.
• Monitor market trends, competitor strategies and market suppliers.
• Provide analysis on costs, new and existing and review cost reduction activities.
• Work closely with others in the organization and review opportunities for continuous improvements.
• Ensure that goods and services purchased are at the best prices, conditions, and purchase requisitions.

Servicing / Warehousing / Logistics:

• Coordinate with shipping and receiving departments to manage incoming and outgoing shipments.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance inventory accuracy and efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to forecast material requirements and adjust inventory levels accordingly.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation for all inventory-related activities.
• Optimize warehouse layout and organization to improve efficiency. Oversee the proper storage of parts, ensuring they are stored in a manner that maintains quality and accessibility.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree / Diploma in supply chain, logistics or related field.
• 2-4 years of experience in Supply chain operations – procurement / inventory / warehousing.
• Experience in technical part procurement (mechanical, electrical, pneumatic) is an asset.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite software.
• Valid Driver’s license & insurance.
• Valid passport.
• Must be able to travel up to 30% of the time.

Skills:

• Proficient in using ERP software and Microsoft excel.
• Familiarity with shipping and receiving procedures, including documentation.
• Ability to lift heavy materials and perform physical tasks as needed.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and prioritize tasks effectively.
• Good communication skills for interacting with team members and vendors.

As part of our commitment to inclusivity, diversity, equity and accessibility, our goal is a workforce built on respect that reflects the communities we serve. We thank all applicants for their interest in Agri-Neo but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

We are proud to be in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) 2005, and the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation. We are happy to honor accommodations at any part of the recruitment process and invite you to let us know how we can help.