Full time Permanent Associate

Posted 23 Oct 2026

Description

Role Summary

Olli Brands Inc. is a GMP-track cannabis edibles manufacturer. The Purchasing Specialist owns the buying cycle end to end — converting netted requirements into purchase orders, confirming lead-time coverage, expediting what is late, and holding supplier price, terms and contract renewals. The role buys against a published plan rather than against requests: the weekly planning cycle produces the requirement, and this role is accountable for it arriving on the date the plan assumed, at the price the budget assumed.

The role sits in Operations, reporting to the Operations Manager, and is a peer to the Demand Planner — the plan is theirs, the purchase order is this role’s. It works daily with Inventory Control, Production and Scheduling, Warehouse and Shipping, Quality and Finance. It suits someone commercially confident and administratively exact: comfortable holding a position with a supplier pushing an increase, and equally comfortable keeping several hundred open order lines right to the line.

Key Responsibilities

- Convert the netted requirements from the weekly planning cycle into purchase orders — raising, confirming,



maintaining and closing orders for raw materials, packaging, excise stamps, consumables, MRO and services — and obtain written supplier acknowledgement of quantity, price and date on every line.
- Own lead-time coverage: maintain supplier lead times, minimum order quantities and order multiples against the item master, and flag to the Demand Planner any requirement the (13-week) horizon cannot cover, including artwork approval and excise stamp issuance.
- Answer purchasing’s lines on the weekly constraint list with an owner, a date and a confirmed supplier commitment before the (Monday) decision review, and attend that review and the daily attainment stand-up.
- Expedite, de-expedite and reschedule open orders as the plan moves, and give written notice the moment a supplier date will not hold rather than reporting it after the fact.
- Run the consumables kanban — daily ordering against bin triggers, trigger quantities maintained from actual usage, and the trigger set reviewed at (monthly) intervals.
- Hold supplier commercial up to an approval limit of $(xx): price, terms,

📌 Purchasing Specialist (Toronto)
🏢 Olli Brands
📍 Toronto