Senior Operations & Logistics Director

Description:

Reporting to the Vice-President, Operations & Logistics, the Senior Director, Operations - Further Processing provides strategic and operational leadership across further processing facilities, overseeing the production of ready-to-eat and tray pack products. This role will play a pivotal role in delivering a major manufacturing expansion while ensuring the business achieves its operational, commercial, and financial objectives through operational excellence, profitability, and successful execution of the business case.

Leading through a team of senior operational leaders, the successful candidate will build high-performing teams, foster positive labour relations, and develop strong partnerships across Engineering, Quality Assurance, Supply Chain, Sales, Product Development, Human Resources, and Continuous Improvement. They will foster a culture where the health, safety, and well-being of employees is a shared priority, while championing accountability, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration to commercialize new products, optimize performance, and deliver profitable growth.

The ideal candidate brings extensive senior operations leadership experience within complex, unionized food manufacturing environments, ideally in protein or ready-to-eat production. They have successfully led large-scale manufacturing transformations, capital projects, or facility start-ups, combining strong commercial and financial acumen with a proven ability to deliver business cases, improve margins, and drive operational performance. A trusted, collaborative leader, they thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and bring the learning agility, strategic perspective, and hands-on leadership style to successfully lead through complexity and change.