Manager Solutions Design Egineering

About the Job

Type:
Full time, Permanent

Wage: $ + Bonus

Shifts:

Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Location:

Rocky View County, AB

• 10 days of Paid Time Off upon hire
• Excellent benefits package after 30 days (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Benefits including Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• Employee discount of 15% on Ryder stock
• A safe, friendly and respectful work environment
• Recognized by Forbes as one of Canada's Best Employers in 2025

• Designing solutions that deliver financial value to our Customers
• Demonstrating an understanding of our Customer's business
• Providing feasible designs that are aligned with our Customer's needs
• Helping the pursuit team with shaping wins plans consistent with our solution design
• Providing sustainable designs that are aligned with Ryder's operational & technical capabilities
• Writing and delivering a compelling proposal that influences the customer decision to select Ryder
• Support awarded business throughout the startup process, successfully transitioning design and proposal assumptions to Operations and SCE CI resources through the Customer Due Diligence process

• Manage a sub-set of SD team members or act as an independent contributor, specializing in select design discipline (transportation, warehousing or network design) or industry solutions (e.g., packaging, inbound to manufacturing, integrated transportation, temp controlled)
• Mentor & advise a sub-set of SD team members on modeling and design techniques to create, re‑design, or optimize logistics networks
• Act as a specific solution design specialist, usually more (but not required) than one discipline
• Effectively communicate the design and solution to internal stakeholders & the client
• Use advanced analytical techniques and concepts to understand the business

• Project Management - managing cross‑functional teams to ensure alignment of solution development with win strategy. Create and manage project milestones, schedule and lead team calls, manage team deliverables, and maintain effective communication across all team members as the solution develops
• Meet frequently with customers and cross‑functional bid response team. Support technical review presentations and design validation meetings
• Calculating labor, equipment, facility and expense requirements based on transportation and warehousing design assumptions. Develop process flows, concept of operations and value propositions consistent with the win strategy and work with IT to develop concept of systems. Coordinate with Pricing and other functions to develop cost and pricing models as well as relevant assumptions
• Develop Proposal - write compelling customer stories that clearly articulates value propositions, Ryder's differentiated value, and proposed solution. The Solution Design Manager is responsible for authoring content and taking ownership for developing the final proposal in collaboration with the Sales Lead.
• Collaborate with Sales leader to develop win strategy (e.g. research industry and customer to understand pain points and Ryder solutions to alleviate, understand competitive landscape to position Ryder to win, stakeholder analysis)
• Data validation, cleansing, profiling, baseline development & defining scenarios to model
• Develop optimizations scenarios and strategies that are aligned with objectives
• Develop and improve engineering tools and methodologies to ensure industry best practices
• Lead consulting projects that involve understanding customers’ pain‑points developing and presenting solutions
• Implementation follow‑up, which requires engineer to validate and modify deployed process to ensure that it matches plan

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Superb data organization and cleansing skills
• Exhibit advanced skills and concepts using design applications, tools, techniques, and methodologies to analyze and design complex transportation and warehousing networks
• Familiarity in simulation tools, transportation & warehouse management systems, ERPs, Automation, MHE, Visibility…