Senior Coordinator Transportation
Requisition ID: 187093
Career Group: Distribution Centre Careers
Job Category: Transportation Operations
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Pay Rate: $61,000.00 - $83,000.00
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: British Columbia
City: Surrey
Location: 0052 Campbell Heights RSC
Postal Code: V3S 3W7
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?
The Senior Transportation Specialist is responsible for coordinating incremental freight, mainly Produce, from within the Western RSC network. The Senior Transportation Specialist will manage productivity, performance, transport planning, budget planning and follow up. The Senior Transportation Specialist also coordinates with all Western Canada warehouse operations organizing transportation lanes and freight movement minimizing stranded capacity.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
- Work closely with RSC team mates to create a coaching and development culture
- Executes incremental (non-store delivery backhaul) freight movement for produce and all other cross dock mainly but not exclusively from Campbell Heights to other RSC’s.
- Superior knowledge of shipping multi-temperature commodities over long distances utilizing control technologies and other means to protect freight.
- Works with all RSC’s to coordinate freight deliveries and eliminate dead head transport, using tools to forecast transport requirements
- Works closely with RSC inbound teams to ensure quality and accuracy of loads are met, follow up as required
- Ensures freight allowance is collected. Verifies all carrier and owner operator billings are accurate.
- Establish and monitor freight budgets and expense controls, reports on performance, providing variance analysis and explanations for deviations from budgets and standards.
- Create real time notification platform to all RSC’s for freight movement
- Works with RSC and transportation leaders to ensure freight movement is in line with scheduling, holiday coverage.
- Works closely with Procurement, Quality Control, and the Distribution team to deliver a superior level of customer service
What you have to offer:
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite
- Comprehensive knowledge of Lotus Notes, and DC related software such as ProClass, EXE, Kronos, etc.
- Good communication skills (both oral and written)
- Results oriented leader, with solid judgment and decision making skills
- Demonstrated successful ability working with cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated successful planning and analysis skills
- Strong leadership, teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Degree, diploma or certificate in business management or operations, and a minimum of 7 years experience in a senior warehousing, transportation or logistics management position, or equivalent combination of education and experienceDemonstrated successful experience leading and managing complex DC operations
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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.