Canadian Tire Corporation
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With world-class Owned Brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to be there for Canadians from coast-to-coast. We are relentlessly focused on innovating at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on the best talent to drive the company forward. It is an especially exciting time to join Canadian Tire and its group of companies.
Canadian Tire’s Supply Chain continues to be an industry leader, consistently innovating and delivering meaningful change for our customers and shareholders. This is a unique opportunity to join a team of transportation experts who are a mix of experienced veterans and developing professionals that work hard and have fun along the way. We foster professional career growth and respect a healthy work-life balance.
The Business Analyst – International Transportation is responsible for representing the company and managing the inbound workflow through our transload facilities. They work closely with CTC’s external third party transload providers and ocean carrier service providers for the Asia Pacific and the European trade lanes as well as internal CTC supply chain teams such as Capacity Planning, Offshore Logistics, Vancouver Operations and all Distribution Centers. This is a pivotal role in managing CTC’s offshore volume into North America.
At Canadian Tire we work flexibly embracing ‘Hybrid’ whereby individuals utilize a combination of working at a CTC campus and or virtually in service of outcomes. Determined by managers, decisions around work location will be made based on business and team needs and grounded in a desire to support individual well-being and personal needs. Our goal is to empower teams and individuals to make the right decisions for them, and we expect that to look different for everyone.
What you’ll do
Own the day to day operational relationship with third party transload facilities in Canada
Act as the key contact for transload operations for all internal and external stakeholders
Work closely with transload management to ensure that capacity and staffing requirements are maintained to handle current and forecasted offshore container volume
Create weekly & daily production plans based off the vessel arrival schedules, manage changes to inbound flow, and develop action plans based on volume and handling requirements.
Identify and manage productivity improvements within the transload to benefit CTC supply chain and transportation.
Monitor transload performance metrics against set service level targets and action as necessary
Support strategic & tactical projects throughout the year.
What you bring
Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to take charge and address ambiguous and uncertain operational issues while managing multiple tasks and deadlines
Ability to work in a self-directed manner and with cross-functional teams
Experience negotiating with and managing 3rd party service providers/vendors
2 years of experience relevant to operations planning and logistics
Comfortable analyzing and turning data into actionable insights (Excel, VBA, PowerBI, Visio, Access)
Ability to negotiate and implement change
Familiarity with internal CTC systems and supply chain processes is an asset
About Canadian Tire Corporation
As one of the most trusted brands in Canada, our employees take pride in the work we do across the country. It’s more than the iconic triangle that keeps our employees around. From benefits and perks, to learning and development opportunities, to our commitment to Jumpstart – these are some of the many reasons why Canadian Tire Corporation is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies . To learn more follow us on LinkedIn .
Canadian Tire Supply Chain
Ontario-Brampton
Permanent
Full-time
Job Posting
: Aug 5, 2022, 4:06:35 PM