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(CAN) Specialist, Transportation Insights


Mississauga, Canada
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05/30/2025 Regular/Permanent R-2191025

Position Summary...

Analyze transportation metrics, identify trends, and translate data-driven findings into actionable insights that optimize daily operations and inform strategic decisions. Provide hands-on support and administration for all transportation systems, ensuring continuous tool utilization, correct user permissions, and rapid issue resolution.

What you'll do...

  • Continuously maintain and update transportation dashboards and key performance metrics, ensuring the highest standards of data accuracy and integrity while packaging insights for leadership.
  • Oversee all work tickets on tools (internal & external), managing reviews and escalations to ensure timely resolution.

  • Reorganize databases to meet national and regional requirements, optimizing structure and performance based on data insights.
  • Act as a liaison for front-line teams, IT, management, and database users, providing training, addressing questions, and tailoring programs/tools to resolve common queries.
  • Manage master databases, set user-permission levels, and organize groupings, using data insights to forecast and prevent potential access issues.
  • Work closely with Insights Managers to support projects, communicate updates, and assist with process improvements and SOP creation.
  • Serve as an expert on Salesforce and other transportation tools, supporting cross-functional teams in their use and optimization.

Qualifications

Technical Skills

  • Proficiency in Python and SQL for data extraction, transformation, automation, and workflow scripting.
  • Hands-on experience designing and maintaining interactive dashboards in Tableau (or comparable BI tools).
  • Proven ability to build end-to-end data workflows/pipelines—from ingesting raw data to distributing outputs across downstream systems.
  • Familiarity with API integrations (nice to have).

Analytical Foundations

  • Knowledge of forecasting methodologies to support projections for a variety of transportation and performance metrics.
  • Understanding of operations-research or mathematical-optimization techniques.

Transportation & Systems (nice to have)

  • Exposure to Transportation Systems or comparable logistics platforms; able to understand underlying data models and translate findings into business-ready outputs.
  • Experience with Salesforce or similar CRM/case-management tools.

Soft Skills & Attitude

  • Positive, proactive attitude; thrives in a fast-paced, high-volume environment, collaborates seamlessly within teams, and is dedicated to on-time delivery.
  • Clear, persuasive communicator and presenter who bridges technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Self-starter committed to continuous improvement and rapid problem-solving, with Analytical and Critical mindset.

Education & Experience

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Supply-Chain Management, or a related discipline.
    • Previous experience in transportation, supply chain, or operations is an asset.

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Age - 18 or older

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

6800 Maritz Drive, Mississauga, ON L5W 1W2, Canada

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