Project Analyst

Description:

Project Analyst – Supply Chain

LOCATION: Toronto, ON, Florenceville-Bristol, NB or Oakbrook Terrace, IL,

DEPARTMENT: Supply Chain

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy. This is an existing vacancy for McCain which is actively seeking to be hired.

Are you passionate about driving impactful change and optimizing processes within the Supply Chain domain? Here at McCain, we are seeking a talented Project Analyst to join our NA Supply Chain team. In this role, you will play a critical role in project planning and coordination, stakeholder management, and integration efforts within our Supply Chain Sub Functions. If you're a detail-oriented professional with a knack for collaboration and a drive for results, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning and Coordination:
 

• Assist in the planning, scheduling, and coordination of Supply Chain project activities.
• Track project timelines, milestones, and deliverables to ensure adherence to deadlines.
• Coordinate communication between project team members, stakeholders, and external partners.
• Organize and facilitate project meetings, including preparing agendas and documenting meeting minutes.
• Maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and risk registers.
   

Stakeholder Management And Accountability
 

• Manage multiple requests while meeting or exceeding stakeholder expectations.
• Hold others accountable to maintain project scope and timelines. (including internal teams and 3rd party logistics providers)
• Listen to input and feedback from stakeholders while managing scope creep and filtering out non-relevant information.
   

Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA)
 

• Lead efforts in developing data driven tracking methodologies to quantify the impact of continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership and expertise to ideate and build a robust portfolio of cost savings initiatives.
   

Understanding And Integration
 

• Project Analysts will be assigned to collaborate with a Supply Chain Sub Function (Logistics, Planning, Customer Solutions, E2E operations)
• Gain expert knowledge of assigned department and their integration into the overall End-to-End (E2E) process.
• Collaborate with CI team to Champion efforts to optimize processes and/or leverage data to improve decision making.