Transportation Manager
14 hours ago
At Loblaw Companies Limited, we're committed to helping Canadians live life well. As a General Manager, Transport, you'll play a key role in crafting and implementing a comprehensive business strategy to drive stability and efficiency in our transportation operations.
Key Responsibilities:- Develop and execute key performance goals for various facilities, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and objectives.
- Lead innovative thinking initiatives to solve challenges, promote productivity gains, and reduce costs.
- Participate in corporate strategy design and mapping, ensuring seamless integration with supply chain operations.
- Ensure customer obligations are met, and exceeded where possible, in regards to inbound and outbound deliveries, on-time arrivals, and quality standards.
- Evaluate and make decisions on key investments, such as equipment, infrastructure, and capital projects.
- Collaborate with customers, warehouse teams, community, government, and other businesses to explore opportunities for growth and evolution.
- Lead the daily operations of the distribution centres' transportation departments, ensuring provision of reliable, low-cost, and highly effective/efficient service to corporate and franchise stores.
- Accountable for key performance indicators to ensure superior performance.
- Manage transportation financial records with a strong financial proficiency, including developing budgets, forecasting, and labour planning.
- Drive a safety culture by leading and advising the operations team in the development and maintenance of safety programs, ensuring compliance in all areas, including health and safety, food safety, environmental safety, and accident/injury reporting.
- Implement and adhere to operations equipment and facilities maintenance and replenishment plans.
- Monitor ongoing effectiveness of transport operations through supply chain flow performance and key performance indicators, including transport route optimization, direct labour planning, on-time delivery, and other productivity measures.
- Build strong working partnerships with other department leads across all business units, working in partnership to translate requirements into supply chain solutions, proactively making trade-offs between service levels, costs, and timing.
- Ensure optimal use of all existing distribution and transportation systems and technology, and optimization of the person-to-technology interface to improve accuracy, efficiency, and access to operations performance indicators.
- In consultation with the Supply Chain Systems team, identify system requirements, and review, acquire, implement, and maintain a national Transport Management System (TMS), Asset tracking and Utilization systems, as well as other performance enabling technologies.
- Provide exceptional leadership, mentoring, and coaching to the transport leadership team, leading, facilitating meetings, and providing feedback.
- Partner with Human Resources to identify and implement a people plan, including recruitment, retention, labour relations strategy, training, performance management, talent development, and succession planning.
- Ensure ongoing communication of supply chain concepts and principles, Loblaw Companies Limited, and supply chain objectives, and distribution productivity measures to all transport colleagues to enhance understanding and capability.
- Work closely with HR, the leadership teams, and DEI Pillar leads to focus on continuing to build on culture and creating an inclusive, equitable, and diverse work environment that increases overall engagement and performance within Supply Chain Operations.
- Model and promote our core values and blue culture concepts, and hold ourselves accountable in all our interactions with colleagues, customers, suppliers, and peers.
- Building and leading diverse teams that foster a workplace of inclusiveness and belonging.
- University degree and/or post-secondary education or equivalent experience.
- 5-7 years senior management experience in a transportation setting.
- Proven track record providing dedicated customer service excellence through strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional team-building ability and a strong people development background.
- Must be able to effectively work with all levels of management and a unionized workforce.
- Demonstrated ability to model blue culture behaviours and align business decisions to CORE values.
- Fluent knowledge of various supply chain concepts and methodologies.
- Thorough understanding of transport management systems.
- Must have excellent decision-making, organizational, time management, and communication skills.
- Strong computer systems knowledge (MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
- Frequent travel required: up to 50% travel time to accountable sites.
- Flexibility to work irregular or extended hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.
Loblaw is committed to sustainability by sourcing products with integrity and making a positive difference in the community. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect, and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada's Top Employers, Canada's Best Diversity Employers, Canada's Greenest Employers, and Canada's Top Employers for Young People.
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