Analyst, Vendor Development

At Loblaw, we help millions of Canadians get through their best days, worst days, celebration days, and every day. Through our innovation and quality products, we’re here for our friends, neighbours, family members and colleagues.

We succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us.

We’re looking for adaptable people who are thrilled to join us in our goal of helping Canadians Live Life Well®. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new job, this is where you belong. We promote leaders at every level and support our people to follow their passion.

This role is responsible for selling services offered by Loblaw Transportation, expanding current programs and growing new opportunities. This role will use analytical tools to ensure profitability targets are met, while assisting in the coordination of program setups.

What You’ll Do:

• Sell complete Loblaw Transportation service offerings, developing both new vendor relationships and extend existing relationships to new opportunities
• Review Loblaw order history for the vendor program, vendor freight rates, carrier capacity and market carrier rate
• Prepare vendor rate packages and review existing vendor freight rates to ensure rate accuracy
• New program setup support, coordinating various system setup components and facilitating lane requirements with Transportation Operations to ensure smooth transitions and customer service targets are achieved
• Ensure expected margin profitability is achieved
• Review daily and weekly freight revenue exception reports for received order with less than planned revenue and investigate root cause issues in SAP and TMS
• Using various analytical tools-identify, quantify and perform root cause analysis on inbound vendor freight opportunities

What You’ll Need:

• 1-3 years’ experience in a supply chain or retail organization
• Exceptional negotiating and communication skills, financial understanding and knowledge/background in transportation industries
• Experience selling truckload and less than truckload services in the transportation sector; proven track record of sales success
• Post-secondary education in logistics, supply chain management and/or business
• Professional attitude and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, energetic and excels in a fast-paced environment
• Strong Analytical skills, and well versed in MS office and other systems

Loblaw is committed to sustainability by sourcing products with integrity and making a positive difference in the community. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

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We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.

Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.

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