About the role
CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.
What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model .
Job Description
Key Responsibilities May Include:
- Lead and mentor the Logistics Execution Analysts and Coordinators, driving continuous improvement in logistics processes.
- Collaborate with commercial teams to ensure the highest levels of customer service and satisfaction across the region.
- Analyze root causes of customer service failures, implementing cross-functional action plans to minimize risks and improve reliability.
- Oversee transporter performance, working with the Carrier Management team to monitor and enhance day-to-day service quality.
- Act as the logistics key point of contact for internal and external customers, providing essential support for seamless operations.
- Drive improvements in logistics execution, identifying and implementing strategies to optimize operations and reduce costs.
- Ensure effective communication and coordination with other departments to maintain operational excellence.
- Develop and track KPIs to measure logistics performance, making data-driven decisions for ongoing process improvements.
Major/Key Accountabilities:
- Logistics Operations: Manage the logistics operations across the network ensuring compliance to contractual and business requirements and manage the relationship with all carrier partners.
- TMS Management: Manage implementation, maintenance, execution and optimal performance of CHEP TMS system.
- Budget Planning & Cost Performance: Participate in planning & management in annual freight spend, achieve financial objectives by managing annual budget expenditures, participate in budget preparation.
- Freight Payables & Accruals: Manage accuracy, compliance and timeliness in Carrier Freight Payables and Freight Payment process and communicate monthly accruals to finance.
- Logistics Projects & Cost Saving Initiatives: Identify & leverage the implementation of process improvements that optimize the total network & logistics cost.
- Carrier Compliance Monitoring: Ensure carriers are operating within Brambles and Transport Regulatory Guidelines or requirements (MTO –CVOR, Insurance, and Clearance Certificate).
- Carrier Performance Monitoring: Drive Carrier performance to KPIs , develop and implement carrier performance scorecard for ongoing performance monitoring.
- Contract Negotiations Support: Support the negotiations of carrier pricing and service level agreements with robust carrier performance data.
- Contract Compliance & Maintenance: Review, update and ensure compliance of all transportation contracts with CHEP best practices and maintain a central repository of all updated contracts
- Audit & Compliance: Lead compliance to best practices and audit/finance requirements to ensure zero non-compliance in transportation operations.
- KPIs Reporting: Manage and communicate transportation, financial & sustainability KPIs (Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Annually).
- Risk Identification & Mitigation: Identify and report any risk within the transportation supply chain in a timely manner and work towards short and long-term solutions.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify & recommend opportunities to improve dock scheduling at plants to enhance appointment compliance, dock utilization and DIFOT.
- Team Leadership: Conduct performance appraisals and coach direct reports to enhance individual and team performance supporting career growth for key team members.
- Zero Harm : support Health and Safety Initiatives.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business (specialization in Supply Chain/Logistics preferred)
- CITT or Plog certification desired.
Experience:
- Qualified candidates should have a minimum of 7 years of progressive transportation management experience with a focus on strong leadership and relationship building skills.
- Experience implementing and analysing network optimization and TMS operations.
- Demonstrated experience proactively developing and collaborating business partnerships within the organization and with customers.
- 3 - 5 years in a Management role.
Skills and Knowledge:
- Senior logistician with a solid background in transportation.
- Demonstrated track record of cost management and efficiency improvement in a complex network.
- Expert understanding of the Canadian carrier landscape, on a national and regional level.
- Well-developed oral, written, and presentation skills.
- Develop and present formal briefings and proposals with supporting documentation.
- Proven ability to build strong relationships, developing trust and confidence at multiple levels of the organization. Able to influence without direct authority.
- Personal: Team leader; demonstrated track record of blending people into teams.
- Proficiency in Excel, Power Point and Microsoft Office Project.
- Proficiency in SAP and TMS software applications.
- Preference to Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt Certification.
- Able to effectively handle high degree of multiple tasks simultaneously.
Languages
Required English Desirable French
Responsabilités majeures/clés :
- Opérations logistiques : Gérer les opérations logistiques à travers le réseau en assurant la conformité aux exigences contractuelles et commerciales, et gérer la relation avec tous les partenaires transporteurs.
- Gestion TMS : Gérer la mise en œuvre, la maintenance, l'exécution et la performance optimale du système TMS CHEP.
- Planification budgétaire et performance des coûts : Participer à la planification et à la gestion des dépenses annuelles de fret, atteindre les objectifs financiers en gérant les dépenses budgétaires annuelles, participer à la préparation budgétaire.
- Comptes à payer et accumulations de fret : Gérer la précision, la conformité et la ponctualité dans le processus de paiement et de paiement du fret du transporteur, et communiquer les gains mensuels au financement.
- Projets logistiques et initiatives d'économie de coûts : Identifiez et exploitez la mise en œuvre d'améliorations des processus qui optimisent le coût total du réseau et de la logistique.
- Surveillance de la conformité des transporteurs : Assurez-vous que les transporteurs opèrent selon les lignes directrices ou exigences réglementaires Brambles et des transports (MTO – CVOR, assurance et certificat de décharge).
- Surveillance de la performance des fournisseurs : Faites passer la performance des fournisseurs aux indicateurs clés de performance, développer et mettre en œuvre une feuille de bord de performance pour une surveillance continue de la performance.
- Soutien à la négociation de contrats : Soutenir la négociation des tarifs des transporteurs et des accords de niveau de service avec des données de performance robustes des transporteurs.
- Conformité et maintenance des contrats : Examiner, mettre à jour et assurer la conformité de tous les contrats de transport selon les meilleures pratiques du CHEP et maintenir un dépôt central de tous les contrats mis à jour
- Audit et conformité : Dirigez la conformité aux meilleures pratiques et aux exigences d'audit/finance afin d'assurer l'absence totale de non-conformité dans les opérations de transport.
- Rapports sur les ICP : Gérer et communiquer les ICP du transport, des finances et de la durabilité (quotidiens, hebdomadaires, mensuels et annuels).
- Identification et atténuation des risques : Identifier et rapporter tout risque dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement du transport en temps opportun et travailler à des solutions à court et long terme.
- Amélioration continue : Identifier et recommander des occasions d'améliorer la planification des quais dans les usines afin d'améliorer la conformité aux rendez-vous, l'utilisation des quais et le DIFOT.
- Leadership d'équipe : Effectuez des évaluations de performance et coachez des rapports directs afin d'améliorer la performance individuelle et d'équipe, soutenant la progression de carrière des membres clés de l'équipe.
- Zéro Dommage : soutenir les initiatives de santé et sécurité.
Qualifications :
- Baccalauréat en génie ou en affaires (spécialisation en chaîne d'approvisionnement/logistique préférée)
- Certification CITT ou Plog souhaitée.
Expérience :
- Les candidats qualifiés devraient avoir au moins 7 ans d'expérience en gestion progressive des transports, avec un accent sur de solides compétences en leadership et en création de relations.
- Expérience dans la mise en œuvre et l'analyse de l'optimisation réseau et des opérations TMS.
- Expérience démontrée dans le développement et la collaboration proactifs de partenariats d'affaires au sein de l'organisation et avec les clients.
- 3 à 5 ans dans un rôle de gestion.
Compétences et connaissances :
- Logisticien principal avec une solide expérience en transport.
- Un historique démontré de gestion des coûts et d'amélioration de l'efficacité dans un réseau complexe.
- Compréhension experte du paysage des transporteurs canadiens, tant au niveau national que régional.
- Compétences orales, écrites et de présentation bien développées.
- Élaborer et présenter des briefings formels et des propositions accompagnés de documents à l'appui.
- Capacité prouvée à bâtir des relations solides, développant la confiance et la confiance à plusieurs niveaux de l'organisation. Capable d'influencer sans autorité directe.
- Personnel : Chef d'équipe; Un historique démontré de capacité à intégrer les gens en équipe.
- Maîtrise d'Excel, PowerPoint et Microsoft Office Project.
- Maîtrise des applications logicielles SAP et TMS.
- Préférence pour la certification Lean Six Sigma Black Belt ou Green Belt.
- Capable de gérer efficacement un haut niveau de plusieurs tâches simultanément.
Langues
Requis: Anglais Souhaitable: Français
Remote Type
Hybrid Remote
Skills to succeed in the role
Coaching, Collaboration, Continuous Improvement, Disruptive Thinking, Feedback, Inclusive Leadership, Leading Change, Leading Customer Centric Teams, Logistics Execution, Logistics Management, Mentorship, Motivating Teams, Operational Excellence, Prioritization, Self-Awareness, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Operations
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.
Individuals fraudulently misrepresenting themselves as Brambles or CHEP representatives have scheduled interviews and offered fraudulent employment opportunities with the intent to commit identity theft or solicit money. Brambles and CHEP never conduct interviews via online chat or request money as a term of employment. If you have a question as to the legitimacy of an interview or job offer, please contact us at recruitment@brambles.com.
About CHEP
CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organisation on earth. Its pallets, crates and containers form the invisible backbone of the global supply chain and the world’s biggest brands trust CHEP to help them transport their goods more efficiently, sustainably and safely.
As pioneers of the sharing economy, CHEP created one of the world's most sustainable logistics businesses through the share and reuse of its platforms under a model known as ‘pooling’. CHEP primarily serves the fast-moving consumer goods (e.g. dry food, grocery, and health and personal care), fresh produce, beverage, retail and general manufacturing industries.
CHEP employs approximately 13,000 people and believes in the power of collective intelligence through diversity, inclusion and teamwork. CHEP owns approximately 347 million pallets, crates and containers through a network of more than 750 service centres, supporting more than 500,000 customer touch-points for global brands such as Procter & Gamble, Sysco and Nestlé.
CHEP is part of the Brambles Group and operates in approximately 60 countries with its largest operations in North America and Europe. For more information, visit www.chep.com.
About the role
CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.
What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model .
Job Description
Key Responsibilities May Include:
- Lead and mentor the Logistics Execution Analysts and Coordinators, driving continuous improvement in logistics processes.
- Collaborate with commercial teams to ensure the highest levels of customer service and satisfaction across the region.
- Analyze root causes of customer service failures, implementing cross-functional action plans to minimize risks and improve reliability.
- Oversee transporter performance, working with the Carrier Management team to monitor and enhance day-to-day service quality.
- Act as the logistics key point of contact for internal and external customers, providing essential support for seamless operations.
- Drive improvements in logistics execution, identifying and implementing strategies to optimize operations and reduce costs.
- Ensure effective communication and coordination with other departments to maintain operational excellence.
- Develop and track KPIs to measure logistics performance, making data-driven decisions for ongoing process improvements.
Major/Key Accountabilities:
- Logistics Operations: Manage the logistics operations across the network ensuring compliance to contractual and business requirements and manage the relationship with all carrier partners.
- TMS Management: Manage implementation, maintenance, execution and optimal performance of CHEP TMS system.
- Budget Planning & Cost Performance: Participate in planning & management in annual freight spend, achieve financial objectives by managing annual budget expenditures, participate in budget preparation.
- Freight Payables & Accruals: Manage accuracy, compliance and timeliness in Carrier Freight Payables and Freight Payment process and communicate monthly accruals to finance.
- Logistics Projects & Cost Saving Initiatives: Identify & leverage the implementation of process improvements that optimize the total network & logistics cost.
- Carrier Compliance Monitoring: Ensure carriers are operating within Brambles and Transport Regulatory Guidelines or requirements (MTO –CVOR, Insurance, and Clearance Certificate).
- Carrier Performance Monitoring: Drive Carrier performance to KPIs , develop and implement carrier performance scorecard for ongoing performance monitoring.
- Contract Negotiations Support: Support the negotiations of carrier pricing and service level agreements with robust carrier performance data.
- Contract Compliance & Maintenance: Review, update and ensure compliance of all transportation contracts with CHEP best practices and maintain a central repository of all updated contracts
- Audit & Compliance: Lead compliance to best practices and audit/finance requirements to ensure zero non-compliance in transportation operations.
- KPIs Reporting: Manage and communicate transportation, financial & sustainability KPIs (Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Annually).
- Risk Identification & Mitigation: Identify and report any risk within the transportation supply chain in a timely manner and work towards short and long-term solutions.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify & recommend opportunities to improve dock scheduling at plants to enhance appointment compliance, dock utilization and DIFOT.
- Team Leadership: Conduct performance appraisals and coach direct reports to enhance individual and team performance supporting career growth for key team members.
- Zero Harm : support Health and Safety Initiatives.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business (specialization in Supply Chain/Logistics preferred)
- CITT or Plog certification desired.
Experience:
- Qualified candidates should have a minimum of 7 years of progressive transportation management experience with a focus on strong leadership and relationship building skills.
- Experience implementing and analysing network optimization and TMS operations.
- Demonstrated experience proactively developing and collaborating business partnerships within the organization and with customers.
- 3 - 5 years in a Management role.
Skills and Knowledge:
- Senior logistician with a solid background in transportation.
- Demonstrated track record of cost management and efficiency improvement in a complex network.
- Expert understanding of the Canadian carrier landscape, on a national and regional level.
- Well-developed oral, written, and presentation skills.
- Develop and present formal briefings and proposals with supporting documentation.
- Proven ability to build strong relationships, developing trust and confidence at multiple levels of the organization. Able to influence without direct authority.
- Personal: Team leader; demonstrated track record of blending people into teams.
- Proficiency in Excel, Power Point and Microsoft Office Project.
- Proficiency in SAP and TMS software applications.
- Preference to Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt Certification.
- Able to effectively handle high degree of multiple tasks simultaneously.
Languages
Required English Desirable French
Responsabilités majeures/clés :
- Opérations logistiques : Gérer les opérations logistiques à travers le réseau en assurant la conformité aux exigences contractuelles et commerciales, et gérer la relation avec tous les partenaires transporteurs.
- Gestion TMS : Gérer la mise en œuvre, la maintenance, l'exécution et la performance optimale du système TMS CHEP.
- Planification budgétaire et performance des coûts : Participer à la planification et à la gestion des dépenses annuelles de fret, atteindre les objectifs financiers en gérant les dépenses budgétaires annuelles, participer à la préparation budgétaire.
- Comptes à payer et accumulations de fret : Gérer la précision, la conformité et la ponctualité dans le processus de paiement et de paiement du fret du transporteur, et communiquer les gains mensuels au financement.
- Projets logistiques et initiatives d'économie de coûts : Identifiez et exploitez la mise en œuvre d'améliorations des processus qui optimisent le coût total du réseau et de la logistique.
- Surveillance de la conformité des transporteurs : Assurez-vous que les transporteurs opèrent selon les lignes directrices ou exigences réglementaires Brambles et des transports (MTO – CVOR, assurance et certificat de décharge).
- Surveillance de la performance des fournisseurs : Faites passer la performance des fournisseurs aux indicateurs clés de performance, développer et mettre en œuvre une feuille de bord de performance pour une surveillance continue de la performance.
- Soutien à la négociation de contrats : Soutenir la négociation des tarifs des transporteurs et des accords de niveau de service avec des données de performance robustes des transporteurs.
- Conformité et maintenance des contrats : Examiner, mettre à jour et assurer la conformité de tous les contrats de transport selon les meilleures pratiques du CHEP et maintenir un dépôt central de tous les contrats mis à jour
- Audit et conformité : Dirigez la conformité aux meilleures pratiques et aux exigences d'audit/finance afin d'assurer l'absence totale de non-conformité dans les opérations de transport.
- Rapports sur les ICP : Gérer et communiquer les ICP du transport, des finances et de la durabilité (quotidiens, hebdomadaires, mensuels et annuels).
- Identification et atténuation des risques : Identifier et rapporter tout risque dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement du transport en temps opportun et travailler à des solutions à court et long terme.
- Amélioration continue : Identifier et recommander des occasions d'améliorer la planification des quais dans les usines afin d'améliorer la conformité aux rendez-vous, l'utilisation des quais et le DIFOT.
- Leadership d'équipe : Effectuez des évaluations de performance et coachez des rapports directs afin d'améliorer la performance individuelle et d'équipe, soutenant la progression de carrière des membres clés de l'équipe.
- Zéro Dommage : soutenir les initiatives de santé et sécurité.
Qualifications :
- Baccalauréat en génie ou en affaires (spécialisation en chaîne d'approvisionnement/logistique préférée)
- Certification CITT ou Plog souhaitée.
Expérience :
- Les candidats qualifiés devraient avoir au moins 7 ans d'expérience en gestion progressive des transports, avec un accent sur de solides compétences en leadership et en création de relations.
- Expérience dans la mise en œuvre et l'analyse de l'optimisation réseau et des opérations TMS.
- Expérience démontrée dans le développement et la collaboration proactifs de partenariats d'affaires au sein de l'organisation et avec les clients.
- 3 à 5 ans dans un rôle de gestion.
Compétences et connaissances :
- Logisticien principal avec une solide expérience en transport.
- Un historique démontré de gestion des coûts et d'amélioration de l'efficacité dans un réseau complexe.
- Compréhension experte du paysage des transporteurs canadiens, tant au niveau national que régional.
- Compétences orales, écrites et de présentation bien développées.
- Élaborer et présenter des briefings formels et des propositions accompagnés de documents à l'appui.
- Capacité prouvée à bâtir des relations solides, développant la confiance et la confiance à plusieurs niveaux de l'organisation. Capable d'influencer sans autorité directe.
- Personnel : Chef d'équipe; Un historique démontré de capacité à intégrer les gens en équipe.
- Maîtrise d'Excel, PowerPoint et Microsoft Office Project.
- Maîtrise des applications logicielles SAP et TMS.
- Préférence pour la certification Lean Six Sigma Black Belt ou Green Belt.
- Capable de gérer efficacement un haut niveau de plusieurs tâches simultanément.
Langues
Requis: Anglais Souhaitable: Français
Remote Type
Hybrid Remote
Skills to succeed in the role
Coaching, Collaboration, Continuous Improvement, Disruptive Thinking, Feedback, Inclusive Leadership, Leading Change, Leading Customer Centric Teams, Logistics Execution, Logistics Management, Mentorship, Motivating Teams, Operational Excellence, Prioritization, Self-Awareness, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Operations
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.
Individuals fraudulently misrepresenting themselves as Brambles or CHEP representatives have scheduled interviews and offered fraudulent employment opportunities with the intent to commit identity theft or solicit money. Brambles and CHEP never conduct interviews via online chat or request money as a term of employment. If you have a question as to the legitimacy of an interview or job offer, please contact us at recruitment@brambles.com.
About CHEP
CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organisation on earth. Its pallets, crates and containers form the invisible backbone of the global supply chain and the world’s biggest brands trust CHEP to help them transport their goods more efficiently, sustainably and safely.
As pioneers of the sharing economy, CHEP created one of the world's most sustainable logistics businesses through the share and reuse of its platforms under a model known as ‘pooling’. CHEP primarily serves the fast-moving consumer goods (e.g. dry food, grocery, and health and personal care), fresh produce, beverage, retail and general manufacturing industries.
CHEP employs approximately 13,000 people and believes in the power of collective intelligence through diversity, inclusion and teamwork. CHEP owns approximately 347 million pallets, crates and containers through a network of more than 750 service centres, supporting more than 500,000 customer touch-points for global brands such as Procter & Gamble, Sysco and Nestlé.
CHEP is part of the Brambles Group and operates in approximately 60 countries with its largest operations in North America and Europe. For more information, visit www.chep.com.