Inbound Logistics Senior Manager

Job title: Inbound Logistics Senior Manager

Company: Goodfood Market

Job description: Goodfood (TSX:FOOD) is a leading online grocery service in Canada, delivering fresh meal solutions that make it easy for members from coast to coast to enjoy delicious meals at home every week. Goodfood’s mission is to make the impossible come true, from farm to kitchen, by enabling members to do their weekly meal planning and grocery shopping in minutes. Goodfood members get access to a unique selection of products online as well as exclusive pricing made possible by its world-class direct-to-consumer fulfillment eco-system. Goodfood currently has more than 300,000 active subscribers and over 3800 dedicated and passionate employees across Canada.

We are looking to recruit an ambitious process-focused individual in a dynamic role as a Logistics Senior Manager in Toronto. As a Logistics Senior Manager, you will create schedules, processes and leadership to a team of Inbound specialists in the highly competitive grocery delivery industry.

Logistics Senior Managers are responsible for creating transportation plans to service multiple micro-fulfillment centers across the country in the fresh focused perishable food industry. This includes ensuring the efficient and accurate process adherence and monitoring of shipments on a daily basis from multiple sites. They will also work cross-functionally with internal teams to maintain relationships with our partners, and working to ensure planning and issue-resolution can be executed quickly and at a low cost per delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Define planning methodology and tactics to execute Goodfood’s transportation needs
• Manage a team of inbound specialists who oversee operations across multiple facilities that run 18 hours per day, 7 days a week
• Oversee the maintenance, organization and execution of transportation & operational SOPs for production facilities across Canada
• Ensure that chain of custody data for every order is meticulously maintained
• Implement continuous improvement projects and share ideas that drive efficiencies, best practices, and cost savings across the delivery network
• Work cross-functionally with internal teams to minimize disruptions to planned operations
• Execute tactical planning and forecasting; performance appraisal and address staffing needs on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
• Mentor, train and develop teammates for career progression and learning

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited post-secondary institution
• 8+ years of work experience, with 5+ years direct experience in a manufacturing, production, distribution or logistics environment

• Drives operational excellence – You possess strong operational intelligence and understand how issues in a connected supply chain create bottlenecks
• Extremely organized – You enjoy refining processes and creating structure which is simple and easy for anyone to follow.
• Master of Excel – You are an excel wizard; bonus for SQL or other coding skills!
• Technology – You have rolled out a TMS or have experience with TMS solutions.
• Team building – You have previous experience interviewing, hiring, conducting performance management, developing, and terminating employees to build and maintain an all-star team
• Detail oriented – You possess strong organizational skills and consistently demonstrate a methodical approach to all your work
• A natural communicator – You can explain information and processes to a variety of audiences written and verbally
• Ability to prioritize effectively, multitask and easily manage stress

Availability

• You will be responsible for managing a team which provides 24/7 coverage of shipments across the country
• You are comfortable working a non-standard schedule where needed to support your team and critical business operations including overnight, weekends and holidays

Why Goodfood?

Our team strives to give our members a world class customer experience. We believe in being ambassadors of the brand to make the impossible come true from the farm to table! What we have to offer our employees:

Competitive Group Insurance

Personal No Questions asked days

Annual bonus program

Annual fitness credit

Employee stock option program

Employee STM program & more

Requirements

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:22:22 GMT