Position Summary...

The Manager, Transportation Operations is responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing transportation strategies and operations to enhance customer delivery experience, drive continuous improvements, and achieve service excellence, cost efficiency, and strategic goals.

What you'll do...

The Manager, Transportation Operations may lead cross-functional teams to develop and implement strategies that optimize the transportation network. This role involves conducting root cause analyses, designing data models, and providing actionable insights to enhance transportation operations. The manager may also oversee project management tasks, ensuring coordination and alignment with diverse stakeholder groups to achieve project goals.

This position may involve developing and managing relationships with third-party logistics providers, suppliers, and internal teams to improve the end-to-end customer experience. Responsibilities include identifying areas for improvement, implementing innovative solutions, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and company policies. This role may also require the design and execution of training programs, development of supplier scorecards, and weekly reporting on performance metrics.

The Manager, Transportation Operations may be accountable for leading initiatives to improve last-mile delivery solutions, managing transportation costs, and enhancing service levels. The role includes developing business cases, managing budgets, and providing regular updates to senior leadership on program progress, KPIs, and strategic objectives.

Additionally, this role may require frequent travel to distribution centers and stores to provide onsite support and ensure the successful implementation of transportation programs. The ability to influence and collaborate with various teams across the organization is essential to drive continuous improvement and achieve operational excellence.

Leadership Expectations:

Respect the Individual:

Demonstrates and encourages respect for all; builds a high-performing team; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace and experiences where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members.

Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company; and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.

Acts with Integrity:

Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).

Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and sets expectations for others to do the same; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates. takes action and encourages others to do the same; holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Serve our Customers:

Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy.

Strive for Excellence:

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

Qualifications:

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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.

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…

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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