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The Transportation Specialist coordinates inbound transportation for raw materials and packaging while supporting broader transportation activities across Riverside’s supply chain (outbounds). The role partners with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and third-party service providers to ensure shipments move safely, on-time and cost effectively. The Specialist combines day-to-day execution with curiosity and analytical thinking to recommend the best service and cost solution for the business.
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Drives Results; Resourcefulness; Being Resilient
Achieves transportation outcomes, considers alternatives and maintains momentum through disruptions.
Transportation Operations Knowledge
Essential
Applies mode, routing, consolidation, carrier and shipment execution knowledge to inbound transportation.
Analytical Skills
Advanced
Uses multiple data sources to compare cost and service alternatives and present a cohesive recommendation.
Financial & Commercial Acumen
Emerging to Skilled
Understands how freight choices, accessorials and service failures affect Riverside’s earnings and total landed cost.
Industry Knowledge and Curiosity
Learns market practices, benchmarks services and responds to changing capacity, supplier and business requirements.
Collaboration and Communication
Skilled
Builds alignment with suppliers, carriers and internal teams, while communicating risks and decisions proactively.
Ownership and Adaptability
Takes accountability for shipment follow-through and adjusts quickly when conditions change.
Inbound shipment execution
>95% of Inbound shipments tendered, and delivery milestones actively monitored
1 month
KPI reporting and insight
Weekly inbound scorecard published with on-time performance, cost, exceptions and opportunities
2 months
Transportation cost comparison
Builds a supplier-delivered vs. Riverside pickup report for total-cost and service comparison and opportunities
4 months
Please note this role is an existing vacancy.
At Riverside, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation and job posting practices. The range above reflects the target compensation for the position at the time of posting. Exact compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education, and training, as well as other organizational needs, while balancing internal equity.
Values-led: You’ll be a member of a thoughtful and compassionate team that prioritizes respect, teamwork and resourcefulness along with a good dash of fun. Sometimes, even making granola bars is hard, and life’s too short to take ourselves so seriously that we don’t enjoy the journey.
Unparalleled experiences and opportunities : We’re still determining who we are and what we can be. Help us shape what this organization will look like and what we’ll offer the world, into the future. This means rolling up your sleeves and sometimes building the process – fast! – while employing it. At Riverside, progress occasionally means proceeding imperfectly, and we’re okay with that, as long as we’re staying true to our values and learning and improving along the way.
Access to everyone: We’re a flat organization with few silos which means you’ll have full access to everyone from our founders to our production staff. Even when employees dress up, they wear steel-toed shoes. So don’t be shy. Speak up, share your ideas and go places you normally wouldn’t – like the plant, or the boardroom.
Personal development : We’ll support and empower you to chart your own path and reach any heights you set for yourself. Career paths at Riverside are carved by the people walking on them, not dictated by leaders. Count on us to give you the training and tools to grow and progress.
Gratitude : As a growing business, we can’t always offer formal recognition like awards programs, but we do show our true gratitude and appreciation. At Riverside, we’re all in this together and we value you.
Be a Riverside Brand Ambassador: Stay relentlessly close to our consumers and represent the brand in every interaction, decision, and deliverable. Bring the consumer voice into your work by protecting product quality, availability, and experience, acting early when standards slip, and delivering consistent value that earns trust, advocacy, and long-term brand love.
Canadian family-owned manufacturer of natural and organic snacks for consumers and private-label customers.
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Full-time
Entry · 2+ years experience
Onsite
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