Grow With Us – Join the Nature Fresh Farms Team!
Imagine breaking from tradition to ensure a brighter future for generations to come. At Nature Fresh Farms®, we’re committed to nourishing people and the planet through greenhouse farming.
Since 1999, our family-owned company has pursued a simple yet profound goal: to cultivate a kinder, healthier future. Today, we’re proud to be one of North America’s largest vertically integrated leaders in greenhouse-grown produce. While we are growers, we are also greenhouse builders, plant nurturers, and collaborative partners united by shared values and vision.
Our journey is far from over. As we look to the future, we remain committed to:
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Innovation and conservation
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Reducing waste and promoting biodiversity
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Creating a more sustainable, inclusive, and friendlier world for all
We’re Hiring!
We are currently looking to fill a full-time, permanent position for a Vice President of Supply Chain Operations Manager in our Operations Department at our Leamington facility.
What You'll Do:
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Provide senior leadership over all distribution center, warehouse, shipping and receiving, logistics, and non-produce purchasing operations across Canada and the United States, ensuring consistent performance and alignment with corporate objectives.
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Own the North American supply chain operations performance scorecard, including throughput, fulfillment accuracy, inventory flow, labour productivity, capacity utilization, service levels, cost-to-serve, supplier performance, safety, on-time execution, and operational reliability.
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Lead network optimization and distribution strategy, ensuring the efficient flow of product across facilities, regions, and customer channels.
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Lead purchasing strategy for packaging, farm inputs, operational consumables, and other non-produce supply requirements, ensuring supplier performance, cost effectiveness, supply continuity, purchasing controls, and alignment with business needs.
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Provide leadership over packaging sourcing and availability, ensuring alignment with cost, customer requirements, brand/product needs, sustainability priorities, and operational execution.
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Establish standardized operating and purchasing expectations, KPI disciplines, dashboards, reporting, communication rhythms, escalation processes, and accountability structures across all sites.
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Lead, mentor, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Directors, senior managers, and site leaders responsible for warehouse operations, logistics, shipping and receiving, purchasing, packaging sourcing, and related execution across all locations while fostering an accountable, collaborative, and engaged leadership culture.
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Hold Directors and senior leaders accountable for talent development, succession planning, performance management, and building scalable team capability and readiness for future growth.
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Own labour strategy across operations, including workforce planning, productivity optimization, labour model design, seasonal readiness, and alignment with operational and financial targets.
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Lead operational readiness for peak and seasonal demand periods, ensuring capacity alignment, labour availability, space planning, equipment readiness, packaging/material availability, and consistent service delivery during high-volume cycles.
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Develop and execute short- and long-term capacity, space, equipment, resource, purchasing, budget, and capital plans to support business growth, new customers, new programs, customer requirements, and future facility expansion.
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Own inventory flow execution and contribute to inventory and supply strategy, including alignment with demand, working capital efficiency, inventory turns, aging, shrink, product lifecycle management, space utilization, and fulfillment accuracy.
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Partner with Sales, Farm, Finance, and senior leadership to support S&OP, demand alignment, inventory planning, supply readiness, packaging/material availability, and seasonal planning.
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Drive logistics and product flow optimization across inbound and outbound movement, route effectiveness, transportation cost, distribution reliability, warehouse layout, and time-sensitive fresh produce execution.
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Oversee carrier, supplier, vendor, and logistics service provider performance, ensuring reliability, cost effectiveness, service accountability, supply continuity, and alignment with operational requirements.
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Own operational and purchasing systems strategy and adoption, including WMS, TMS, ERP integration, purchasing/PO disciplines, supplier reporting, labour management tools, automation, and operational reporting, to enable visibility, scalability, and data-driven decision making.
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Lead transformation and major initiatives that improve scalability, efficiency, speed, accuracy, and consistency across North American supply chain operations, including facility growth, network expansion, infrastructure upgrades, supplier programs, equipment implementation, systems rollouts, and process redesign.
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Lead a proactive safety culture across all operations, with accountability for safety performance, compliance, risk reduction, employee engagement, and continuous improvement.
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Ensure operations deliver against customer expectations for service, quality, timeliness, accuracy, responsiveness, and reliability, while aligning capabilities to commercial growth, new customers, channels, product programs, volume shifts, and changing fulfillment requirements.
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Partner closely with Quality, Food Safety, Product, Farm, Sales, Finance, People & Culture, and Technology leaders to ensure plans are aligned, risks are managed, company standards are executed, and operational and purchasing teams comply with applicable policies, customer requirements, purchasing controls, regulatory expectations, food safety protocols, and quality standards.
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Lead operational risk management and business continuity planning, ensuring resilience across facilities, supplier disruptions, packaging/material availability, labour challenges, logistics constraints, equipment issues, and customer demands.
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Provide clear visibility to senior leadership on network performance, service risks, safety performance, purchasing and supplier performance, labour and capacity requirements, capital needs, transformation priorities, and progress against business objectives.
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Comply with all Health and Safety, Food Safety, Bio Security, and Nature Fresh Policies and Procedure
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Complete all physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation
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This job description highlights the main components but is not inclusive of other activities that may be required
What You Bring:
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10+ years of progressive operations, logistics, purchasing, procurement, or supply chain leadership experience, including senior-level accountability for multi-site warehouse, distribution center, logistics, non-produce purchasing, or high-volume operations.
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5+ years leading leaders, including Directors, senior managers, purchasing leaders, or multi-site operational teams
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Demonstrated success managing complex, fast-paced operations with high service expectations, time-sensitive product flow, significant labour and purchasing requirements, and customer-driven performance standards
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Experience in fresh produce, food manufacturing, food distribution, CPG, retail distribution, refrigerated/perishable logistics, packaging sourcing, or another high-volume distribution environment is strongly preferred
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Strong knowledge of warehouse operations, inventory flow, shipping and receiving, order fulfillment, labour planning, capacity planning, transportation/logistics, purchasing, supplier management, packaging availability, and operational performance management.
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Proven ability to develop and execute operational strategy, purchasing plans, annual budgets, capital plans, resource plans, labour models, continuous improvement initiatives, and long-term network scalability plans.
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Experience leading network optimization, distribution strategy, purchasing effectiveness, supplier performance improvement, operational transformation, automation, process redesign, and multi-site standardization initiatives.
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Strong understanding of operational and purchasing systems and data, including WMS, TMS, ERP integration, purchasing/PO tools, labour management, dashboards, operational reporting, automation, or related technology platforms.
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Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to balance service, speed, cost, risk, working capital, supplier performance, employee engagement, safety, customer expectations, and long-term scalability.
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Experience partnering with Quality, Food Safety, Product, Farm, Sales, Finance, People & Culture, and Technology teams to deliver cross-functional business objectives and support S&OP, demand alignment, and supply readiness.
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Excellent leadership, coaching, culture-building, communication, delegation, negotiation, conflict management, planning, organizing, decision-making, and follow-up skills.
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High degree of confidentiality, integrity, professionalism, sound judgment, and demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and solve complex operational problems.
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Respectful, positive, flexible, accountable, honest, patient, and dependable leadership style with a commitment to continuous learning.
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Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office and related business systems.
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Valid driver's license, use of a personal vehicle, valid passport, and ability to travel locally, nationally, and internationally are required.
What To Expect:
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Travels regularly between Nature Fresh locations, operational sites, suppliers, and service provider locations across Canada and the United States, as required.
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Works with a diverse group of employees, leaders, cross-functional teams, suppliers, service providers, carriers, and external partners
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Works in a fast-paced, high-volume operational environment with competing priorities, seasonal demands, and time-sensitive requirements
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Works Monday-Saturday, non-standard work hours. Flexibility with work schedule is required
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The Vice President, Supply Chain Operations is actively involved with Nature Fresh locations, including warehouse, greenhouse, distribution, logistics, purchasing, supplier, and office environments. Their days vary based on business priorities, operational needs, travel schedules, and site requirements
Who We're Looking For
We’re searching for passionate, purpose-driven individuals who are eager to make a difference — not just in their day-to-day work, but in the world around them. The right candidate is someone who shares our vision for a kinder, healthier future and lives out values that align with our own.
At Nature Fresh Farms, our GROWS Company Values guide everything we do — from how we collaborate as a team to how we grow as individuals and as a business:
Growing People – We cultivate greatness, every day
Respect and Care – We care for our people and our communities
One Team – We’re stronger as one
Win By Challenging – We reimagine what’s possible
Serve With Purpose – We make things happen
If you’re someone who believes in doing meaningful work, thrives in a collaborative environment, and is motivated by innovation and impact, you’ll feel right at home here.
Why Work With Us?
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A forward-thinking, sustainability-driven company
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Supportive, people-first workplace culture
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Opportunities for growth, learning, and development
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Competitive wages and benefits
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A chance to be part of something bigger than yourself
Ready to Grow With Us?
If you're inspired to make a real impact and grow your career in an innovative, purpose-driven environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Click the “Apply” button and submit your resume to take the next step in your career with Nature Fresh Farms.
Nature Fresh Farms is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, beginning with the hiring process. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome applications from candidates, in accordance with all relevant legislation. Nature Fresh Farms provides an accessible environment in which all individuals have access in a way that respects the dignity and independence of people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
