Manager, Forecasting, Planning & Analysis - Prepared Foods

Role overview

Planning, forecasting, and governance

• Review forecasts, budgets, long-range plans, and reporting submissions for completeness, consistency, and adherence to approved methodologies.
• Resolve material operational assumption, data quality, and reporting issues; maintain planning methodologies, templates, and reporting standards.
• Challenge variance explanations, identify risks and opportunities, perform scenario modeling, and approve consolidated reports and forecast submissions.

Stakeholder management and improvement

• Coordinate Operational Finance Business Partners and the MLF-GS tower lead as the primary CoE contact.
• Partner with Finance Business Partners while maintaining CoE ownership of methodologies, consolidation, and process governance.
• Work with peer OU Managers and Enterprise Planning on standardization and continuous improvement; analyze forecast-to-actual results and driver accuracy.

Qualifications

• Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and management reporting.
• Strong operational acumen, including understanding of volume, labour, yield, throughput, and productivity drivers.
• Ability to assess forecasts and variance explanations, identify material trends and risks, coordinate cross-functional planning, and resolve complex issues.
• Strong analytical judgment, stakeholder management, executive communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Compensation

• Target base pay is $96,000–$141,000 CAD annually, plus eligibility for an annual short-term incentive plan.

Benefits

• Benefits include health and wellness coverage from the first day of employment, a defined contribution pension with company matching, learning and development, tuition reimbursement, and paid volunteer days.