Business Operations Analyst
Role Overview
Financial and analytical partner to the Canadian Foodservice Division, supporting profitable growth and commercial decision-making.
Focus areas include customer pricing, profitability, category insights, financial modeling, forecasting, inventory optimization, and P&L performance.
Works across Sales, Procurement, Finance, Marketing, and Operations.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role summary
Financial and analytical partner to the Canadian Foodservice Division, supporting profitable growth and commercial decision-making.
Focus areas include customer pricing, profitability, category insights, financial modeling, forecasting, inventory optimization, and P&L performance.
Works across Sales, Procurement, Finance, Marketing, and Operations.
Responsibilities
- Develop and analyze customer price lists, pricing structures, and profitability models that account for product, freight, duties, currency, inventory, working capital, and customer-specific costs.
- Evaluate returns for contracts, RFPs, renewals, extensions, and new business; model volume, pricing, and margin scenarios before commitments.
- Build dashboards and report customer, product, category, and sales performance; analyze margins, price-volume-mix, sales trends, seasonality, and forecast variances.
- Coordinate inventory requirements with Demand Planning and Supply Chain; monitor purchase orders, inbound supply, containers, truckloads, imports, and inventory gaps.
- Recommend inventory placement, warehouse transfers, product allocations, and safety-stock levels to improve efficiency and service while reducing freight and stock issues.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, supply chain, or a related discipline.
- Foodservice, CPG, food manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, or other high-volume commercial experience is strongly preferred.
- Cross-functional experience with Sales, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Procurement.
- Knowledge of revenue, COGS, gross and contribution margins, operating expenses, pricing, and detailed price-volume-mix analysis.
- Experience evaluating pricing proposals, RFPs, and tenders; advanced Excel, PivotTables, and financial modeling.
- Power BI or another BI/dashboarding platform experience is preferred; understanding of demand planning, forecasting, and inventory management.
Workplace
- The position is based in a professional office setting and primarily uses standard office equipment.
- Hybrid arrangement with one work-from-home day per week.
About the company
Export Packers is an international food company headquartered in Ontario, Canada.
Other duties
Other duties may be assigned.
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