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Today, Canadian National Railway Co. announced it restructured its sales and marketing department.

The railroad named Vice President-Forest Products Stan Jablonski VP-sales and VP-Industrial Products Jean-Jacques Ruest, VP-marketing to head newly created — and separate — sales and marketing departments. Both will report to Executive VP of Sales and Marketing James Foote.

"This new structure will allow us to streamline and standardize traditional, and often antiquated, sales and marketing business activities across the system, and fully leverage our electronic business capabilities," said Foote in a prepared statement.

CN previously managed national account sales and marketing activities along customer product lines in six business units. Now, forest and industrial products, and intermodal unit sales will be consolidated into the sales department managed by Jablonski. CN's regional sales force will remain in place and continue to report directly to their respective regional senior VP.

Forest and industrial products unit marketing will be consolidated into the marketing department managed by Ruest, who also will oversee automotive unit marketing. VP of Automotive and Intermodal Sales Andy Gonta will assume new operating department responsibilities. Intermodal marketing activities will continue to be managed by CN's IMX (Intermodal Excellence) business unit.

Ruest also will head CN's e-business activities — which previously were managed by VP of eBusiness Anita Ernesaks, who will assume new operating department responsibilities — and most activities previously managed by VP of Sales and Marketing Development Janice Murray. She will assume new responsibilities in the railroad's newly expanded network strategies department.