DeVry Institute of Technology

Director, Logistics at The North West Company

Leads the Canadian Transportation & Distribution Management teams and builds on long term carrier and 3PL partnerships to move all retail cargo across Rail, Road, Air, Chopper, Sealift and Winter Road shipping seasons.
Accountable for Canadian Transportation and Distribution operations and both operating and capital budgets and finacials.

The North West Company

Director, Logistics

Leads the Management team at the Winnipeg Logistics Service Center, and the Operations team at Crescent Multi Foods. Between the two facility’s we are 225 women and men strong.  
I am accountable for entire operating and capital budgets, period and quarter reviews.  Over see capital projects that are under $1M in total project cost.

Director, Distribution Canada

Lead a team of Norwesters, who managed the maintenance team that serviced 5 banners 200 retail stores.  
Developed a staff dwelling annual audit to support asset evaluation to feed capital requirements and prioritization.  
Developed a multi banner 5 year capital plan focused on asset renewal, energy savings and housing improvements to support staff retention. 
Member of the environmental committee

Director, Maintenance, Staff Dwelling and Capital Planning

Lead the operations team through centralizing expense management with the team of specialists accountable for all the lines below the GP line on the P&L. 
Developed the 5 year capital plan that included new stores, store refresh and renewals, including complex infrastructure projects. 
Was able to save $4million annual operating expenses over 134 stores.
Visited and travelled to over 60 stores during this period.
Member of the environmental committee

Director, Operations Development

Working with 24 of the largest profitable stores in the Northern Canada Region, I focused on food merchandising, blending margin to increase traffic count and growing basket size.   This role gave me a great opportunity to travel this beautiful country and learn about the Northern Quebec culture.  
Working with store teams in the north is truly rewarding, their passion and dedication are energizing and contagious.

Food Sales Manager

Lead 14 store teams in North Western Canada, in the Mackenzie Region NWT and Nunavut. 
Accountable for top to bottom P&L, operating and capital planning.

Director, Sales and Operations

Worked along side 13 western retail stores, travelled and stayed with store managers in staff housing, while implementing and auditing standards in merchandising, inventory management, staff development and customer service.

Field Specialist

Some of my best memories of my working career, living and service the people of Clyde River, Tulita and Tuktoyaktuk.
Managed staff teams to hold strong clean and safe retail stores, to provide high level of customer service with trained staff to keep high in stock positions, while managing special ship and air resupply inventory ordering and management processes.  
Hawkers, Cessna 206, and DC3 aircraft resupplied perishable bi-weekly orders.
Barge, Winter Road and Sealift were the means of annual and bi-annual bulk up resupply of non-date sensitive food and bulk big ticket general merchandise. 
I was involved in drum dance, talent contest, fishing derbies, a whale hunt, slow pitch tournaments, swimming in cold water, and meeting a lot of great people of Northern Canada.  
Ladies Night and Elders Breakfast we two of my favourite Christmas events of the year!

Store Manager

I was a trainee, mainly focused on learning and training in the grocery department.
With meat cutting experience, this gave me the opportunity to travel to Churchill, Inuvik and Iqaluit a couple times to complete the meat management relief.     Fantastic memories and experiences.

Travis Lussier