City : Oakville

Category : Full time,

Industry : Retail Goods

Employer : Canadian Tire

What You’ll Do

As Manager, Freight Audit, you will lead the end-to-end freight audit and payment function across Canadian Tire’s enterprise transportation network. You’ll be accountable for ensuring accurate freight cost validation, driving recoveries, strengthening controls, and delivering insights that improve transportation spend visibility and operational efficiency at scale.

You will partner closely with Transportation, Finance, Supply Chain, and external carriers/audit vendors to ensure compliance with contracts, rate agreements, and internal policies—while also modernizing processes and leveraging data to continuously improve outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Freight Audit & Payment Leadership

• Own the full freight audit lifecycle, including invoice validation, approval, discrepancy management, and payment across inbound and outbound transportation modes (TL, LTL, parcel, intermodal).

• Ensure freight invoices are accurately audited against contracted rates, accessorial, fuel surcharges, and service-level agreements.

• Oversee exception resolution, root cause analysis, and recovery of overcharges from carriers and vendors.

Financial Controls & Compliance

• Establish and maintain strong audit controls, governance, and documentation to support internal and external audits.

• Ensure compliance with transportation contracts, SOX requirements, and Canadian Tire financial policies.

• Partner with Finance to support accrual accuracy, month-end close, and variance analysis related to freight spend.

Data, Insights & Continuous Improvement

• Analyze freight spend trends, discrepancies, and audit findings to identify cost-saving and optimization opportunities.

• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and reporting for senior leadership that highlight savings, compliance, and audit effectiveness.

• Lead process improvements, automation, and system enhancements (e.g., TMS, freight audit tools).

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Act as a key business partner to Transportation, Logistics, and Finance teams to resolve issues and improve upstream processes.

• Manage relationships with external freight audit providers and carriers, including performance reviews and service-level outcomes.

• Support contract negotiations by providing audit insights, dispute history, and data-driven recommendations.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of freight audit professionals.

• Set clear performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration.

What You Bring

Experience & Education

• 5+ years of progressive experience in freight audit, transportation finance, logistics, or supply chain analytics.

• 7+ years of people leadership experience.

• Post-secondary education in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related field (CPA, CMA, or supply chain designation considered an asset).

Technical Expertise

• Strong working knowledge of transportation rate structures, accessorial, and carrier contracts.

• Experience with TMS, freight audit/payment platforms.

• Advanced proficiency in data analysis and reporting (Excel, Power BI, or similar tools).

Leadership & Impact

• Proven ability to influence cross-functional partners and lead through complexity.

• Strong business acumen with a continuous improvement mindset.

• Clear, confident communicator able to translate data into executive-level insights.

We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging 

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations  

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.