About this role
Requisition ID: 193356
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?
Logistics Planner is responsible for optimizing transportation planning and support managing Retail Support Center (RSC) throughput. This role leverages Transportation Management Systems (TMS), C3 Inbound Management, and SAP (ERP) to support transportation and RSC analytics, aiming to automate processes and improve efficiency. The Logistics Planner ensures cost-effective routing and scheduling of both inbound and outbound shipments.
The role focuses on analyzing performance metrics, identifying operational inefficiencies, and driving continuous improvements in transportation workflows. By optimizing RSC throughput and enhancing week-over-week performance, the Logistics Planner contributes to cost savings, improving store service levels, and seamless operations across the transportation network. This position plays a critical role in data-driven decision-making and operational excellence within our supply chain function.
Available Shift: 4am to 2:30pm including weekend shifts
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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 coach all Routing and Dispatch staff to ensure continuous departmental coverage for a 24 hr, 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:
Preferred
- A minimum of one year experience in a similar role
- Familiarity with the Ontario road network
- Knowledge of warehouse and transportation
Required
- Minimum 2 years of previous Supervisory experience is required in a transportation planning/routing role is required
- Business Diploma in a related industry
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Access databases), JDA, TMS
- Strong organizational skills and time management skills
- Strong communication skills (both oral and written)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to meet tight deadlines while ensuring accuracy and work effectively in a team environment
- Familiarity with Western Canada road network
- Travel may be required
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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.
Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this position role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
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.
Other facts
About Sobeys
As one of only two national grocery retailers in Canada, Sobeys Inc. serves the food shopping needs of Canadians with more than 1,500 stores in 10 provinces with retail banners that include Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Price Chopper, Thrifty Foods and Lawtons Drugs, as well as more than 330 retail fuel locations. Our five core retail food formats are designed to ensure that we have the right offering in the right-sized stores for each individual market we serve — from our full service format to the convenience format, each tailored to satisfy the unique occasion-based food shopping needs of our customers.
Our 134,000 employees and franchise affiliates are committed to building sustainable worth for each of our customers, employees, suppliers and shareholders through our focus on food, innovation and superior customer service.
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En tant que l'un des deux seuls détaillants alimentaires présents dans tout le Canada, Sobeys Inc. répond aux besoins en épicerie de sa clientèle par le biais de ses quelque 1 500 magasins. Répartis dans chacune des dix provinces, ceux-ci arborent diverses bannières de détail dont Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Price Chopper, Thrifty Foods et Lawtons Drugs, ainsi que plus de 330 stations d'essence. Nos magasins d'alimentation sont conçus en fonction de cinq concepts de base afin que l'offre aux consommateurs et la taille des magasins conviennent le mieux à chacun des marchés que nous desservons. Du magasin à gamme complète de services jusqu'au dépanneur, chacun est adapté de façon à combler les besoins particuliers de notre clientèle en fonction de l'occasion d'achat.
En raison de l'importance qu'ils accordent à l'alimentation, à l'innovation et à l'excellence du service à la clientèle, nos quelque 125 000 employés et marchands affiliés se montrent soucieux de créer de la valeur de façon durable pour chacun de nos partenaires, qu'ils soient clients, employés, fournisseurs ou actionnaires.
What you'll do
- The Logistics Planner is responsible for optimizing transportation planning and managing Retail Support Center throughput. This includes analyzing performance metrics, identifying inefficiencies, and driving improvements in transportation workflows.
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