Director of Distribution

You'll do more than run operations—you'll inspire people. From boosting performance across safety, service, and productivity, to shaping a culture of inclusion, energy, and excellence, your leadership will make a real difference. We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-moving, automated environment and knows how to bring out the best in their team.

If you’re passionate about operational excellence and building empowered teams, we’d love to connect. Let’s move great food—and great careers—forward together.

Advantages
- Attractive Compensation Package: $130K-150K, based on experience
- Great Bonus paid out yearly
- Incredible benefits
- Work within a Tariff and recession proof industry
- Great room for advancement and longevity within

Responsibilities
- Oversees all aspects of distribution centre operations, including health and safety, labour relations, inventory management, sanitation, and facility maintenance to ensure a safe, compliant, and efficient work environment.
- Manages the flow of goods to meet store expectations, ensuring inventory accuracy, minimizing damages and spoilage, and maintaining product rotation standards.
- Drives operational performance by achieving key performance indicators (KPIs), controlling operating costs, and implementing corrective actions when necessary.
- Leads continuous improvement initiatives, collaborating across departments to enhance processes, deliver year-over-year KPI improvements, and advance corporate responsibility efforts.
- Fosters network collaboration, sharing and adopting best practices
- Leads operations across multiple shifts, overseeing staffing, performance management, grievance resolution, and adherence to the union
- Builds and develops high-performing teams by recruiting top talent, providing ongoing training, setting clear performance standards, and fostering professional growth.
- Drives operational excellence through the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Standard Operating Procedures and continuous improvement initiatives.



Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or Industrial Engineering
- 7+ years of management experience in a unionized distribution or logistics environment, with strong experience within a unionized environment
- Proven experience with automated distribution centres and leading Continuous Improvement initiatives, preferably with Lean Six Sigma training.
- Strong technical proficiency with MS Office & Distribution Management Systems

Summary
If you feel you qualify and are interested in learning more, please forward your resume to sandy.mann@randstad.ca

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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