Planner, Transportation

**About Us**:
**Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, we are Coke Canada Bottling**

Coke Canada Bottling is Canada's premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.

We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love. We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values: lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.

Our brands include: Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke®, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Life, Sprite®, Fanta®, Barq's®, NESTEA®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid®, DASANI® and vitaminwater®; and our partner brands: Canada Dry®, Monster Energy®, and A&W®.

**About This Opportunity**:
Reporting to the IBT Manager Transportation Operations, the Transportation Planner is responsible for managing the pick-up and delivery execution of orders to support a regional area (East, Central or West) of the CCR (Sparkling) business. The planner is responsible for managing all carrier activity and performance within their assigned region and is accountable for managing the freight expenses to budget for that region. Typical freight spend for each region varies from $12-25 million with typical daily load planning varying from 125-250 per day depending upon complexity and based on business needs.

The incumbent is expected to work independently and be self-motivated in order to ensure that superior customer service is provided to our partners in Sales and Field Operations. The incumbent must respond to their needs and queries in a courteous, prompt, accurate and professional manner. In order to accomplish this, the incumbent must have excellent communication skills, excellent problem solving skills, and effective conflict resolution skills.

**Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for transportation planning activities process for all orders from CCCBL Production Centers to Distribution Centers and or 3PL Warehouses in relevant region (East, Central & West with approx. 85,000 orders per annum at an annual spend of $54M)
- Responsible to ensure achievement of annual objectives related to PTA (primary tender acceptance), OTD/OPT (on time delivery/on time pickup), load optimization, PI savings, etc. for responsible region
- Support Manager Transportation Operations on project work related to IBT optimization, EDI compliance, etc.
- Ensure all regional orders for the Transportation team are processed and executed on a timely basis
- Primary interface for cross functional communication and problem solving required with Supply Planning, Distribution center staff and Sales teams for responsible region
- Work with IBT Manager Transportation Operations to analyze trends affecting customer order fulfillment, determine root cause & corrective actions required, and make recommendations to management for review and appropriate action
- Interact proactively with customers to ensure they receive on time, error free delivery performance. Maintain an exceptional relationship by responding to special requests, rush orders and high volume of orders with efficiency, accuracy, and professionalism.
- Work with supply planning to ensure orders are managed and adjusted to facilitate optimizing trailer loading
- Work with supply planning to determine most cost-effective routing and by maximizing pallet count and or weight limits.
- Responsible for supporting regular carrier performance through programs and processes developed to facilitate collaboration and improve cost, service & risk compliance.
- Identify and implement the most cost effective distribution chain to enhance profitability for the channel
- Support managing the relationship, performance and pricing with transportation providers for this channel
- Research and resolve issues with customers, carriers and related internal business partners
- Ensure that defined Escalation Processes are followed across the department;
- Train with other planners on each of their regions to ensure each planner is fully cross-trained for vacation and absente coverage

**Qualifications**:

- Soft Skills: Strong skills in the areas of coaching, delegating, leadership, communication, and presentation
- Hard skills: Strong skills in the areas of analytical thinking, process & project management
- Building Value Based relationships: Work with the other supply chain function s and the customer base to support the requirements of the business and deliver superior service.
- Minimum 3-5 years related work experience, preferably in a consumer packaged goods industry
- Information Systems: Knowledge and use of existing Technical Information Systems including BluJay TMS, SAP and potentially JDA. Ability to access, analyze and ut