Transportation Manager

1 month ago

Ajax, Ontario, Canada Loblaw Companies Limited Full time
Job Title: General Manager, Transport

At Loblaw Companies Limited, we are committed to helping Canadians live life well. As a General Manager, Transport, you will play a critical role in crafting and implementing a comprehensive business strategy to create stability and efficiency in our transportation operations.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and implement key performance goals for various facilities and organize the framework for projects and initiatives.
  • Spearhead innovative and creative thinking initiatives to solve challenges and promote productivity gains, cost reduction, and new methods of doing business.
  • Participate in corporate strategy design and mapping.
  • 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.
  • Seek out and explore opportunities to grow or evolve the business by collaborating with customers, warehouse teams, community, government, and other businesses.
  • Lead the daily operations of the distribution centres' transportation departments to ensure 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 that includes 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 to ensure compliance is achieved in all areas, including health and safety, food safety, environmental safety, and accident/injury reporting.
  • Ensure implementation and application of standardized standard processes in transportation management, LEAN concepts, and continuous process improvement procedures.
  • Implement and adhere to operations equipment and facilities maintenance and replenishment plan.
  • 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, identifies performance decrements, and directs fast and efficient corrective action.
  • 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, clearly defining priorities, fostering innovation, and evaluating current and future processes.
  • 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, identifies system requirements, and reviews, acquires, implements, and maintains 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 by leading, facilitating meetings, and providing feedback.
  • Partner with Human Resources to identify and implement a people plan which includes 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.

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