Master Planner, Advanced Planning Systems
The Company
At Canopy Growth, our mission is clear: improve lives, end cannabis prohibition, and strengthen communities. We believe that cannabis can be a force for good. We’re building a consumer-centric organization that is focused on sharing the transformational potential of cannabis with the world. We will achieve this through an innovative and disruptive portfolio of cannabis and hemp-derived products.
Canopy Growth is the world's leading cannabis and hemp company. We recognize that employees are at the core of our success, and we take pride in a corporate culture that emphasizes inclusiveness, collaboration, and diversity.
Our employees come from a wide range of backgrounds, each bringing their own unique skills and talents to the table, working together to continue our incredible momentum of growth. If you are interested in building global challenger brands, scaling a business, and working in a values-driven environment, we want to hear from you!
The Opportunity
We are seeking a seasoned and strategic Master Planner, Advanced Planning Systems – to facilitate in the management, implementation, and continual improvement of the planning processes and enabling tools, and to ensure that functional leaders, managers, and team members are aligned on supply plan execution. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Supply Planning, this role provides highly specialized subject matter expertise across one or more Master Planning areas, partnering cross-functionally to drive sales and operations planning decisions and deliver against key financial targets.
The Master Planner develops and maintains detailed production and material requirement plans for core SKUs and new product innovation, leads capacity and constraint-based planning. The role also serves as a business super user and subject matter expert for planning systems, supporting users, troubleshooting planning issues, and identifying opportunities for system and process improvements to enhance planning capabilities.
The ideal candidate combines strong master planning expertise with advanced analytical and systems capabilities. They will be highly proficient in Excel and able to independently develop and maintain supporting planning tools, models, reports, and analyses. They will have hands-on experience with advanced planning applications such as Kinaxis, Demantra, i2, or similar platforms, with the ability to understand how planning parameters, master data, and system logic influence planning outputs. The successful candidate is technically strong, highly detail-oriented, and able to operate effectively in complex, rapidly evolving situations.
Responsibilities
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Provide highly specialized subject matter expertise and leadership (by initiative) in one of the following Master Planning areas: Whole Cannabis Flower, Pre-Rolled Cannabis, Ingested Cannabis Extracts, Inhaled Cannabis Extracts, and/or Topical Cannabis Extracts
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Develop and maintain executable master production schedules using finite-capacity, material-constrained, and resource-constrained planning principles, including production sequencing, lot sizing, changeovers, lead times, and scheduling priorities.
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Coordinate and actively manage cross-functional activities required to execute the master schedule, including material readiness, QA/QC release, production priorities, inventory availability, warehousing, and other operational dependencies.
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Provide direction and leadership with capacity planning and constraint-based planning
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Maintain total portfolio optimization by coordinating the disposition of all finished goods and intermediates along the value chain, with clear impacts on the financial KPIs of the firm
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Assist in developing strategies for total-lifecycle management of stock keeping units
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Serve as the planning systems super user and business subject matter expert, supporting planners and other functional users in the effective use of advanced planning applications.
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Maintain and op