Hunter Campbell Looking for Supply Chain Manager at Dunedin City, Otago, New Zealand Full Time

The company

Zeagold Foods is New Zealand’s leading producer of eggs and egg products. We strive to provide consumers with the best egg products in the world. It’s a goal we take seriously, monitoring each stage of the process – from the flock’s feed source and management through to egg collection and further processing. Zeagold foods has some of the most modern poultry farms in Australasia designed by specialists from Europe. Every aspect of the production matrix has been carefully evaluated from biosecurity to bird welfare, human resource needs through to the environmental impact.

Zeagold branded products are sold throughout New Zealand and as far away as Hong Kong and Singapore. Our company philosophy has always been to build a vertically integrated operation. In this way, we are able to control and manage every element of the egg production process. This includes the production of feed, rearing of day-old chicks, egg laying, livestock health, grading, and processing right through to the distribution of egg products.

In the newly-created position of Supply Chain Manager at Zeagold Nutrition, you’ll play a crucial role in orchestrating the effective operational and strategic performance of supply chain and S&OP. You’ll be at the heart of the operations, ensuring that our supply chain runs smoothly and efficiently, from farm to depot. You will be joining a leading food group and one of key importance to New Zealand. With nationwide sites and operations, they provide products to both food service and consumers that play a key role in providing essential health and nutrition benefits to many New Zealanders.

The business is well-established and is on a journey of innovation to improve its operations, performance, systems, processes, and way of working. They have embraced innovation, invested heavily in automation (with plans to continue to do so), are adopting a culture of Lean and are committed to continuing to improve and lead the way as one of New Zealand’s leading food producers.

Zeagold is looking for people who can make a difference as they consolidate their position as New Zealand’s market leader and embrace innovation and Continuous Improvement. If this excites you, this could be the leadership role that you have been looking for.

The opportunity – Supply Chain ManagerYou will join the business as their Supply Chain Manager based at the Head Office in Dunedin.

Reporting to the Head of Operations & Supply Chain you will be responsible for overseeing and optimising end-to-end supply chain operations, ensuring the seamless coordination of S&OP, demand planning, supply and materials planning, and logistics management.

You will focus on achieving business objectives by balancing cost efficiency with high-quality service delivery. Ably supported by a team of three direct reports (Logistics Manager, Demand Planner and a Supply and Materials Planner) you will lead cross-functional teams and collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders to drive supply chain improvements, support business growth, and ensure optimal levels of customer delivery and satisfaction

With a focus on people leadership and cultural and succession development, the pursuit of continuous improvement, and manufacturing excellence, this is a very attractive leadership opportunity.

Responsibilities

As Zeagold’s Supply Chain Manager you will be responsible for leading your main responsibilities will include, though not be limited to:

• S&OP – manage, build, improve and champion across the business
• Demand and Supply/Materials Planning – oversee and lead with the support of two experienced planners
• Logistics management – oversee all functions including 3PL warehousing, transportation and distribution
• Continuous Improvement – optimise supply chain efficiency, reduce costs and improve service levels
• Team leadership and development
• Stakeholder collaboration – build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners

A Bit About You…

You will be a confident and energetic self-starter with a keen eye for detail and accuracy. You will have a genuine desire to add value to the business and will enjoy a hands-on role as you collaborate with multiple teams across the organisation, maintaining strong cultural awareness and sensitivity as you do so.

You will have a strong team focus and be able to nurture, coach, and manage your team effectively, displaying humility and resilience at all times. Solutions-driven and a competent problem solver, decision-making will be one of your key strengths, and your ability to influence diverse stakeholders will be second to none. It is likely that you have demonstrable experience leading supply chain and S&OP in a food production, FMCG or agri-business environment.

What’s In It For You

This is a critical leadership role that requires proven supply chain leadership capability and strategic thinking in a larger-scale food production context. You will be experienced in and passionate about both building performance-based cultures and leading, as well as maintaining and improving the performance of supply chain and S&OP. You will be provided with a wide scope of responsibility, the opportunity to drive improvements, make achievements and develop your leadership skills and S&OP and supply chain management experience and capability.

If you are a dynamic individual who has the drive and motivation to succeed and is excited at the prospect of furthering your career, we look forward to hearing from you.

You will be rewarded with a remuneration package commensurate with your experience.

If this opportunity is of interest, please submit your CV by following the link below. If you would like to find out more, please contact Wayne Fry on 021 656 502 or [email protected] for a confidential discussion