Administrator, Logistics

POSTING DATE: April 24, 2025

JOB NUMBER: 2025-34

HYBRID WORK: Non-Eligible

POSITION TYPE: Non-Permanent, (6 - Month Contract)

LOCATION: St. Albert, Alberta

Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. (Al-Pac) is seeking an Administrator, Logistics to work out of our office in St. Albert, Alberta . The successful candidate will be responsible for meeting customer needs while optimizing value and trouble-shooting logistic issues. Engage and collaborate vendors, customers, agents, associations, and internal Alberta-Pacific teams to ensure consistent supply and quality of service and product. Support the Supply Chain Division in meeting or exceeding business goals.

Who Are We?

Al-Pac is the largest single-line kraft pulp producer in North America. Our mill is located near the communities of Athabasca, Boyle & Lac La Biche. We are leaders in our industry, from our quality products, mill operations and responsible forest management practices, to the way we grow and develop our team members and work with local communities. We are continuously exploring new and innovative ideas, while delivering premium products with a commitment to strong environmental stewardship and corporate social responsibility – a commitment that is demonstrated by our long-standing Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) certification*.

Role Responsibilities

Transportation & Distribution

Communicate and coordinate with internal coordinators, 3PL’s, and supply chain vendors to ensure customers’ orders are transported and distributed in a profitable and customer centric manner.

Conducts physical inventories, cycle counts, asset validations and reconciliation procedures to ensure accuracy of inventory.

External Stakeholder Relations

Support the vendor relationships to leverage Alberta-Pacific’s customer value proposition and premium brand.

Ensure data from vendors is accurate.

Support the implementation of contingency plans for unplanned business disruptions to minimize adverse impacts.

Documentation & Processes

Work in systems, processes, workflow, and tools to ensure uninterrupted and cost-effective delivery to customers.

Process and ensure documentation requirements are met to ensure a free flow of products in a timely and error free manner.

Process shipments based on the shipping terms, insurance terms, etc Support coordinators by ensuring data is correct and shipments are entered timely.

Negotiating & Contracting

Ensure data is correct to allow for continued optimization of the supply chain (e.g. costs, reliability, etc.) to getting products to customers.

Insights & Reporting

Ensure shipments are processed accurately to allow for accurate and timely compiling of data to support negotiating positions.

Ensure shipments are processed to allow for compiling of data and to support the team in meeting the key performance indicators to report on success of Logistics.

Innovation

Collect information and data of innovative approaches to optimize data processing and reporting in the supply chain to support the creation of new solutions and opportunities and reduce costs without sacrificing customer care.

Understand vendor systems to leverage opportunities to create efficiencies and improve data flow

Develop and maintain a network of traditional and non-traditional contacts to enhance innovation.

Internal Stakeholder Relations

Engage with internal stakeholders to maintain and grow knowledge sharing between departments to build cohesive internal relations to eliminate redundancies and create efficiencies.

Engage with internal and external auditors by providing accurate data what complies with audit requirements.

Ensure knowledge transfer within the team is timely, provide support to team members.

Role Requirements

1-3 years’ experience in transportation, logistics, sales coordination, customer service, or data entry is required.

Business Diploma in Transportation, Logistics, Inventory Management, or Supply Chain Management is an asset.

Experience working in a CRM (or transportation) information system or ERP.

Experience working with internal and external auditors is an asset.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.

Other

Strong computer skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access).

Knowledge and understanding of supply chains: including, but not limited to carriers such as railways, trucking, and shipping.

Utilize emotional intelligence and integrity to deliver customer centric solutions.

Problem solver.

Resilience to drive sustainable business success.

Communicative, a persuasive and articulate speaker, writer, and presenter.

Organizational & Market Agility

Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships (internally and externally).

Strong data collection, analysis, and insight skills.

To apply today and learn more about Al-Pac's current opportunities, please visit: alpac.ca/grow-with-us

Legal Statement

Al-Pac is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals. We wish to express our thanks to all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position; however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

*FSC-C021640