Overview

Redstone Food Group is a growing Canadian food manufacturing company with four facilities across Mississauga and Vaughan. Together with our affiliated companies, Le Bon and Tasty Selections, we manufacture a diverse range of breads, garlic-based products, and sweet baked goods.

Job Summary:

The Senior Costing & Procurement Analyst is a cross-functional role responsible for product costing and pricing, company-wide purchasing analysis and coordination, commodity management, inventory accuracy, margin analysis, and external freight analysis and management.

This role provides a unique opportunity to work directly with the executive leadership team and plant management on key business decisions, including product pricing, sourcing strategies, commodity purchasing and cost-reduction opportunities.

This is a hands-on analytical role. The successful candidate will be expected to spend time within the manufacturing facilities, understand how products are produced and costed, work closely with plant teams, and investigate issues rather than relying solely on financial or system reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Costing & Pricing

- Own the preparation and maintenance of product costings for new and existing products across all manufacturing facilities.
- Work with R&D;, Operations, plant purchasing teams, Sales and Finance to obtain the inputs required to develop accurate product costings.
- Determine appropriate customer pricing based on product costs and required margins, and provide Sales with pricing recommendations for new business and customer price changes.
- Compare costing assumptions to actual manufacturing and purchasing performance and investigate material differences with Operations and Finance.
- Regularly review product and customer margins, identify significant changes or areas of concern, and work with Sales, Operations and Finance to determine appropriate pricing or cost actions.

Purchasing Coordination & Cost Savings

- Develop company-wide visibility into purchasing across all manufacturing facilities and identify pricing, supplier consolidation and volume opportunities.
- Coordinate purchasing activities and information across the plants, while day-to-day purchasing remains the responsibility of each plant.
- Lead regular purchasing meetings with plant purchasers to review pricing, supplier issues, sourcing opportunities and cost-saving initiatives.
- Support sourcing, RFQs and supplier negotiations through analysis of pricing, volumes and commercial terms.

Commodity Management

- Monitor key commodity markets, pricing trends and the Company's purchasing requirements and contracted positions.
- Analyze the impact of commodity price changes on product costs, margins, budgets and forecasts.




- Work with suppliers and internal stakeholders to evaluate purchasing and contracting alternatives.
- Develop and present recommendations to management on commodity purchasing strategies, including timing, quantities and contracting decisions.
- Support budgeting and forecasting by providing purchasing, commodity and expected cost assumptions.

Inventory Accuracy & Controls

- Provide company-wide oversight of inventory accuracy and variance reporting across all manufacturing facilities.
- Investigate significant or recurring inventory variances with Plant Operations, Purchasing and Finance to identify root causes.
- Coordinate corrective actions and recommend process improvements to reduce inventory variances and improve controls.
- Support consistent inventory-control practices and reporting across the organization.

External Freight Analysis & Management

- Develop company-wide visibility into external freight costs, carrier pricing and service arrangements.
- Identify and quantify freight cost-saving opportunities, including volume consolidation, rate improvements and alternative freight arrangements.
- Support freight-provider sourcing and rate negotiations.

Skills & Competencies

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate detailed cost and purchasing information into clear business recommendations.
- Strong understanding of product costing and the factors that influence product and customer profitability.
- Commercial mindset with a strong interest in understanding how purchasing decisions affect costs and margins.
- Ability to identify opportunities, quantify financial impacts and follow initiatives through implementation.
- Solid attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
- Curious and investigative approach to problems; willing to understand the underlying operational process rather than relying solely on reports.
- Comfortable working directly with manufacturing and plant-level teams.
- Ability to influence and coordinate across multiple facilities and functions without direct reporting authority.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to develop productive relationships with plant teams, Sales, Finance, Operations and suppliers.
- Ability to challenge existing practices constructively and support recommendations with facts and analysis.
- Organized and able to manage multiple priorities and initiatives across different manufacturing facilities.




- Demonstrated interest and ability to develop stronger supplier negotiation and commercial skills over time.
- Proactive approach with an expectation to identify issues and opportunities and bring forward recommendations rather than waiting for direction.

Qualifications & Experience

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Operations or a related discipline.
- Relevant experience of 4-6 years in product costing, procurement, supply chain or commercial analysis within a manufacturing environment.
- Manufacturing experience is required; food manufacturing or CPG experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong experience in product costing and cost analysis, with a practical understanding of purchasing, supplier pricing and procurement processes.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong analytical/modelling capabilities.
- Experience with Power BI or similar analytical/reporting tools is an asset.
- Exposure to commodity purchasing or commodity markets is an asset but is not required.
- Knowledge of food packaging materials, specifications or packaging suppliers is an asset.
- A supply-chain or procurement designation, such as SCMP, is considered an asset.

This is a newly created role. Redstone Food Group is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for Redstone Food Group jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at [email protected].

Pay: $70,000.00-$90,000.00 per year

Benefits

- Casual dress
- Flexible schedule
- On-site parking
- Paid time off

Application question(s):
- Approximately how many product costings have you personally prepared or updated in the last 12 months? Briefly describe the types of products you costed and the costing model or ERP you used.
- When preparing product costings in your current or most recent role, which costing inputs were you personally responsible for determining versus inputs provided to you by operations, purchasing or other departments?
- Describe the Excel-based product costing file you most recently worked with. What were the main inputs, calculations and outputs in the file?
- Describe the most complex Excel analysis or model you have personally built. What was it used for, approximately how much data did it contain, and what specific Excel functions or tools did you use? Please identify at least three specific functions or tools and briefly explain how you used each one.
- What is your salary expectation?
- Are you legally authorized to work in Canada?

Work Location: In person

📌 Senior Costing & Procurement Analyst (Mississauga)
🏢 Redstone Food Group
📍 Mississauga