Planner, Transportation

Requisition : 193356
Career Group: Distribution Centre Careers
Job Category: Outbound Transportation Prairies
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Alberta;
British Columbia;
Ontario;
Québec
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, Fresh Co, 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: Sunday to Thursday 3pm to 11pm MST

We invite you to learn more about the role by watching this video

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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…