General Manager, Transport

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Chez Loblaw, nous sommes là pour aider tous les jours des millions de Canadiens, qu’ils vivent leur meilleure ou leur pire journée ou une journée de célébrations. Grâce à nos innovations et à nos produits de qualité, nous sommes présents pour nos amis, nos voisins, nos membres de la famille et nos collègues.

Nous réussissons grâce à la collaboration et l’engagement, et nous avons des attentes élevées envers nous-mêmes et ceux qui nous entourent.

Nous sommes à la recherche de personnes flexibles qui seraient ravies de se joindre à nous dans le but d’aider les Canadiens à « Vivre bien, vivre pleinement »MD. Que vous commenciez tout juste votre carrière, que vous recommenciez à travailler ou que vous cherchiez un nouvel emploi, vous aurez votre place ici. Nous promouvons le leadership à tous les niveaux et soutenons nos collègues dans la poursuite de leur passion.

Why is this role important:
As the General Manager, you will be responsible for crafting and implementing a comprehensive business strategy designed to create stability and efficiency, while ensuring exceptional customer service. You will be responsible for providing direct management to key transport managers in the operations as they coordinate work across various facilities in pursuit of organizational goals and targets while maintaining a consistent standard of safety, accuracy and efficiency. You will be required to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with both internal and external key team members. This role is accountable for the day to day transportation operations of our Ajax, Aspect and South Caledon Distribution Centres. The General Manager is responsible for the development of a strong internal culture that retains key employees and encourages professional development.

What you'll do:

• Coordinate the development of key performance goals for various facilities and organize the framework for projects and initiatives

• Spearhead innovative and creative thinking initiatives to solve challenges and to promote productivity gains, reduction of costs 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

• Ensures implementation and application of standardized standard processes in transportation management, LEAN concepts, and continuous process improvement procedures

• Implements and adheres to operations equipment and facilities maintenance and replenishment plan

• Monitors 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

• Ensures 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

• Ensures 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

What you bring:

• 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.

Notre engagement envers la durabilité et l'impact social est un élément essentiel de notre façon de faire des affaires. Nous concentrons notre attention sur les domaines où nous pouvons avoir le plus grand impact. Notre approche de la durabilité et de l'impact social repose sur trois piliers - l'environnement, l'approvisionnement et la communauté. Nous recherchons constamment des moyens de faire preuve de leadership dans ces domaines importants. Nos valeurs ÊTRE - Engagement, Tient à coeur, Respect et Excellence - guident toutes nos prises de décision et prennent vie à travers notre culture bleue. Nous offrons à nos collègues des carrières progressives, une formation complète, de la flexibilité ainsi que les nombreux avantages compétitifs - voici quelques-unes des nombreuses raisons pour lesquelles nous sommes classés au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs du Canada, au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs pour la diversité au Canada, au palmarès des employeurs les plus verts au Canada et au palmarès des meilleurs employeurs pour les jeunes au Canada.

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Nous nous concentrons depuis longtemps sur la diversité, l’équité et l’inclusion, car nous savons que ces valeurs feront de notre entreprise un meilleur endroit où travailler et magasiner. Nous nous engageons à créer un environnement accessible pour nos collègues, nos candidats et nos clients. Les demandes d’accommodement en raison d’un handicap (pouvant être visible ou non; temporaire ou permanent) peuvent être formulées à n’importe quel moment dans l’emploi et dans le processus de candidature. Nous encourageons les candidats à nous faire part de leurs besoins en matière d’accommodement afin qu’ils puissent bénéficier d’occasions équitables.

Remarque
Les candidat(e)s âgé(e)s de 18 ans ou plus doivent effectuer une vérification des antécédents criminels. Les détails seront fournis dans le cadre du processus de demande.