Job Description:

REPORTING TO:             The Co-Director in the Economic Development Department.

 

Responsibilities:

• Manage Nunavik Furs Tannery staff, materials and infrastructure;
• Seasonal sealift orders, and development and managing an inventory system;
• Produce monthly sales reports;
• Develop fur processing sectors in Nunavik with a focus on job creation and facilitating economic activities;
• Develop industry specific strategic plans, labor market development, feasibility and marketing studies in collaboration with senior staff and with other partners;
• Work closely with each of the local Hunter Support Program staff;

With identified industry partners:

• Export market research (develop and expand potential export markets);
• Assist in identifying areas of innovation, applied research and development;

• Help identify potential tanning agents as the company grows.
• Work with hunter support programs and the local trappers to bring better quality skinned furs to market.
• Promotion of the regions eco-friendly tanning methods and our traditional tanning and skinning.
• Promoting our unique product and the only Indigenous owned tannery in Quebec.
• Developing other partnership opportunities with other parts of the Arctic Regions in Canada as well as other Arctic countries
• Be available to travel, as requested;
• Any other duties requested by the supervisor.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Commerce or similar or relevant experience;
• Two (2) to three (2) years of experience;
• Good communication skills in at least two (2) of the three (3) languages: Inuktitut, English and/or French;
• Excellent computer skills : Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.);
• General knowledge of Inuit, Inuit traditions and cultural knowledge and understanding, is an asset;
• Demonstrates the capacity to manage a team;
• Experience in sale report writing and of inventory systems;
• Experience with preparing for sealift orders and shipment of dangerous good.

Benefits:

All marginal benefits available to employees of the Corporation as outlined in the Makivvik Human Resources Policy Manual.