OPENLANE

Transportation Manager

OPENLANE

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Brampton • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$85,000 - CA$97,500 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Provide day-to-day leadership, supervision, training, and development to the logistics team, including managing the internal driver pool and overseeing carrier dispatching, compliance, and claims.
  • Manage team staffing, scheduling, and timekeeping to ensure adequate coverage for pickup and delivery order volume.
  • Attract, engage, and retain talent, ensuring all employees are thoroughly familiar with safe work processes and operating procedures.
  • Serve as the primary transportation contact for the local Vehicle Logistics Center (VLC), resolving customer concerns and setting a high standard of satisfaction.
  • Be accountable for the market's financial performance, using KPIs and standardized reports to monitor spending, manage costs, and forecast against actuals.
  • Manage the safe, efficient, and profitable movement of fleet lease, factory, and consignment vehicles by ensuring all processes meet or exceed SLA standards.
  • Promote a safe work environment by ensuring department-specific safety tasks are completed in accordance with the safety program.
  • Support initiatives by engaging in their development, deployment, and change management.

Requirements

  • 3-5 Years’ of related experience in a logistics or dispatching role
  • 3-5 years supervisory experience
  • Tech-savvy, and comfortable using Google Suite
  • Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills
  • Ability to maintain calm and diplomatic in dispute resolution situations
  • Autonomous, self-driven, proactive and a team player
  • Excellent organizational, time management and prioritization skills with the ability to juggle demands and meet deadlines
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits with employer HSA contributions (US) and FSA options (US)
  • Immediately vested 401K (US) or RRSP (Canada) with company match
  • Paid Vacation, Personal, and Sick Time
  • Paid maternity and paternity leave (US)
  • Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D (US)
  • Robust Employee Assistance Program
  • Employer paid Leap into Service Day to volunteer
  • Tuition Reimbursement for eligible programs
  • Opportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge across a publicly traded, global organization
  • Company culture of internal promotions, diverse career paths, and meaningful advancement

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
logistics managementdispatchingKPI monitoringcost managementSLA standardssafety program compliance
Soft skills
leadershipinterpersonal skillscommunication skillsdispute resolutionorganizational skillstime managementprioritizationproactive attitudeteam player