Manager Transload Strategy

Join CPKC, North America’s first transnational railroad connecting U.S., Canada and Mexico, where your career drives progress and safety is paramount. We connect communities, fuel economic growth, and provide meaningful work in a culture that values diversity, accountability, and pride. With opportunities for training, development, and advancement, you’re not just building a career—you’re part of something bigger. Together, we move goods, connect people, and create lasting change. Your future starts here.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

The Manager Transload Strategy drives the growth and performance of CPKC’s Transload Services network across Canada. Leveraging data-driven insights, you will identify growth opportunities, support revenue expansion, enhance customer experience, and develop innovative transportation and logistics solutions. Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, you will lead strategic initiatives, optimize transload operations, and expand value-added services to meet evolving market and customer needs.

This position can be based in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, or Montreal, Quebec.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Drive revenue growth by supporting CPKC Commercial teams in developing and executing transload strategies and customer solutions


• Identify, evaluate, and lead new transload opportunities from concept through implementation and commercialization


• Analyze market trends, facility performance, and customer needs to identify growth opportunities and inform business decisions


• Develop transload and delivery (T&D) pricing, prepare customer proposals, and manage service agreements and rate contracts


• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, transload operators, warehouse providers, trucking companies, contractors, and other key stakeholders


• Collaborate with Train & Engine (T&E) personnel, Service Design, and Customer Service teams to ensure efficient and reliable service delivery


• Manage the performance and growth of the regional transload facility network to support customer retention and revenue expansion


• Lead transload facility expansion and capital projects, including business case development, budgeting, construction oversight, and commissioning


• Develop and manage operating and capital budgets, forecasts, and multi-year plans (MYP), while overseeing transload invoice validation, approval, and payment processes


• Ensure compliance with CPKC safety, environmental, and risk management standards while representing CPKC at customer meetings, industry events, and market conferences.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Undergraduate degree in Commerce, Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Economics, Mathematics, or an equivalent combination of education and experience


• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in transportation, logistics, commercial, supply chain, and/or operations environment; experience working with a transload service provider, bulk commodity trucking operation, or a related logistics environment is considered an asset


• An understanding of the supply chain interface between rail and trucking operations, including the movement and fluidity of bulk commodities, would be highly advantageous


• Strong analytical skills with experience leveraging data, spreadsheets, and reporting tools to identify trends, evaluate opportunities, and support business decision-making


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and build strong working relationships


• Self-starter with a positive attitude, strong initiative, and the ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment


• Must possess a valid driver’s license and passport for cross-border travel

WHAT CPKC HAS TO OFFER:

• Flexible and competitive benefits package


• Competitive company pension and/or retirement plans


• Employee Share Purchase Plan


• Performance Incentive Plan


• Annual Fitness Subsidy


• Part-time Studies Program

PRE-EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:

 Background Investigation

• Criminal history check


• Education verification


• Professional references

BECOMING A RAILROADER:

As an employee with a North American presence, the possibility does exist that the location of your position may be changed based on organizational requirements.

Management Conductor Program

Becoming a qualified conductor or locomotive engineer is the single best way for a management employee to learn the business at CPKC. You may be required to obtain a certification or to maintain your current certification/qualification as a conductor or locomotive engineer.

CULTURE OF INCLUSION:

For our U.S. applicants, CPKC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, inclusive of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For Canadian applicants CPKC is an employment equity employer committed to the principles of employment equity and inclusion. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply including: women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), members of the LGBTQ+ community and people with disabilities. Accommodations for the job application process can be provide, as appropriate, upon request. All applicant information will be managed in accordance with the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

• Req ID: 106188


• Department: Sales & Marketing


• Job Type: Full-Time


• Position Type: Non-Union


• Location: Toronto, Ontario


• Country: Canada


• % of Travel: 0-10%


• # of Positions: 1


• Job Grade: 3


• Job Available to: Internal & External

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