Buyer/Planner

Dessert Holdings is the leading premium dessert company in the world. We craft artisanal, scratch-made desserts at scale, combining culinary innovation with the finest real ingredients. With a rich heritage spanning seven distinctive brands, we bring unmatched expertise and tailored solutions to our Retail and Foodservice partners.

Dessert Holdings is looking for a Buyer/Planner in London, Ontario to execute day-to-day procurement operations, including creating and managing purchase orders for raw materials, ingredients, packaging, and other production-critical items. This role ensures materials arrive on time to support production and customer service needs while balancing inventory investment, warehouse space constraints, supplier lead times, and shelf-life requirements in a highly dynamic operating environment. The Buyer/Planner partners closely with suppliers, production planning, R&D, operations, warehousing, quality, commercialization and procurement leadership to maintain reliable material flow and proactively resolve supply risks.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Manage the full purchase order lifecycle, including creation, issuance, confirmations, updates, and maintenance for raw materials, ingredients, packaging, and related supplies.

Monitor and track open purchase orders daily to ensure materials are delivered on time and production schedules remain uninterrupted.

Coordinate closely with suppliers to verify delivery dates, quantities, pricing accuracy, and resolve order changes or discrepancies.

Proactively identify, communicate, and escalate supply risks such as delays, shortages, quality issues, transportation disruptions, and allocation constraints.

Partner with Production Planning, Operations, Warehouse, Quality, and Procurement teams to align material availability with production requirements.

Balance inventory and service levels while managing working capital, storage limitations, minimum order quantities, shelf-life requirements, and obsolescence risks.

Analyze inventory levels, demand fluctuations, supplier lead times, and consumption trends to support effective replenishment planning.