Transportation Planner

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Ag & Trading enterprise, where we connect producers and users of grains and oilseeds around the globe through origination, trading, processing, and distribution. We also offer a range of farmer services and risk management solutions.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Transportation Planner will handle moderately complex supply chain activities required to bring commodity ingredients into contracted warehouses, vendors, plants or direct to customers. In this role, you will execute the commodity merchant supply strategy, collaborate with all other internal functional and department personnel, be responsible for administration of documentation and systems entry and ensure a timely and cost effective flow of commodities.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide transportation and logistics solutions on inbound movement of raw commodity ingredients and finished goods from origin to destination.
• Execute logistics activities that support the execution of the supply chain, such as transportation capacity plans, management of third party warehouses and vendors, container administration and import shipments.
• Responsible for routine scheduling, transportation arrangement, stock inventory management and reporting of shipments in accordance with purchase and sales contracts.
• Execute against the logistics and supply chain strategy, resolve complex issues and provide recommendations to support improved and cost beneficial freight movements.
• Manage shipments against purchase and sales contracts, create internal and external purchase orders and invoices and perform data entry updates using enterprise resource planning systems, spreadsheets and databases.
• Conduct specialized transportation and logistics activities, such as participation with the material resource plans for the facilities, claims and incidents, customer service and customer orders contracts.
• Develop and foster relationships to obtain services at preferential pricing and service levels.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of two years of related work experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Experience working in a Transportation Management System
• Understanding of FTL rate structures
• Independent problem solving and effective decision-making skills
• Functional knowledge of SAP system

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At Cargill, we are committed to building a workplace where individuals from all backgrounds feel respected, valued, and able to contribute fully. We believe that bringing together different perspectives strengthens our teams and drives better outcomes.

Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment experience. If you require accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please let us know so we can work with you to meet your needs.

Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.
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Client-provided location(s): Winnipeg, Canada, Regina, Canada, Camrose, Canada, Saskatoon, Canada

Job ID: Cargill_FGB-331687

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-08-08T18:54:17