Router Planner Transportation-ft

**Requisition ID**: 185235
**Career Group**: Distribution Centre Careers
**Job Category**: Outbound Transportation Prairies
**Travel Requirements**: 0 - 10%

**Job Type**: Full-Time

**Country**: Canada (CA)
**Province**: Alberta
**City**: Calgary
**Location**: 0040 Bill Sobey RSC
**Postal Code**: T4A 0P9

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better - great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

**Ready to Make an impact?**:
Located at our Retail Support Centre (RSC) 260199 High Plains Blvd, Rocky View County, AB. Our Planners provide daily delivery schedules and solutions to ensure efficient and effective transportation delivery. Actively contribute to a positive and productive working environment.

**Here’s where you’ll be focusing**:

- Review daily Routing for errors or omissions. Research, correct and communicate timely action plans
- Work directly with warehouses to determine opportunities for routing/loading/shipping and implement best practices across the Prairie Region
- Oversee, direct, train and know all Routing and Dispatch staff to ensure continuous departmental coverage for a 24 hour / 7 Day operation
- Liaison with all shipping warehouses and retail locations, related to routing and delivery concerns in order to determine rot cause and correction to support operations, warehousing and customers across all banners and wholesale operations
- Continuous daily review, identify opportunities and drive for cost reductions on all lanes
- System support for routing and dispatch programs in Prairies Region
- Track on-time delivery and shuttle performance of all loads in the Prairies Region, identify deficient, correct misses and develop correct actions to eliminate delivery delays
- Responsible for creating, deploying and communicating all Short week planning schedules for the Prairies Region
- Analysis of and completion of the Owner Operator Payroll program
- Review of lane costing vs plan and identify and implement cost reductions while supporting operations and administration
- Other duties as assigned

**What you have to offer**:

- Minimum 2 years experience in a transportation planning/routing role is required
- Business Diploma
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Access databases), JDA, TMS, Samsara
- Strong organizational skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Strong communication skills (both oral and written)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to meet tight deadlines while ensuring accuracy
- Familiarity with Western Canada road network

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better - physically, financially and emotionally.

Our Total Rewards programs goes well beyond your paycheque:

- Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, as well as life insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance*.
- Access to Virtual Health Care Platform* and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings*.
- A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable*.
- Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
- Paid Vacation
- Eligible only after working a set number of hours/days worked.

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.