CT Corporation Looking for Business Analyst, International Transportation – Canadian Tire Corporation at Brampton, ON Full Time

Help us boldly shape retail in Canada

Canadian Tire Corporation’s (CTC) rich heritage of serving Canadians from coast-to-coast dates back to 1922. Our vision is to become the #1 retail brand in Canada and we are focused on innovating and making important investments in our business, especially when it comes to our people. To reach our goal, we need the best talent to help us evolve and drive change across the business – and boldly help shape Canada’s retail industry. As we strive to be at the forefront of a complex and vastly changing retail industry, it is an exciting time to join the Canadian Tire family of companies.

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

• Post secondary education in Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar

• 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

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Canadian Tire and its family of companies are boldly shaping retail in Canada and we continue to deliver a positive experience for our customers. 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 .

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Canadian Tire is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace for all. We recognize that our future success depends on the perspectives and contributions of all our employees – their diverse backgrounds, abilities and experiences make our business stronger. If you are contacted for a job opportunity, please advise us of any accommodations needed to ensure fair and equitable access throughout the recruitment and selection process. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.