Senior Transportation Analyst

Our Opportunity:

We are looking for a Senior Transportation Analyst at our facility in Plantation, FL to influence business and tech teams across the company to standup new processes and provide advanced analytics to make data-driven decisions.

What You’ll Do: 

• Interface between the S&OP, Merchandising, Supply Planning, Transportation and Operations teams bringing continuity to the inbound program.
• Provide capabilities and visibility to support end-to-end transportation network.
• Provide all levels of the company with updates on Transportation metrics, including ongoing analysis and interpretation of data.
• Present information verbally, as well as in written reports and executive summaries.
• Perform freight conversion analysis to move vendors from Prepaid to Collect freight terms.
• Manage projects and develop supply chain capabilities with little direction.
• Drive continuous improvement across reporting suite and identify gaps in data.
• Analyze leakage elements within inbound freight (use of spot market, increasing rates, damages).
• Build processes and tools to help the business scale with growth while maintaining cost & service metrics.
• Perform root cause analysis, develop, and implement corrective action plans to improve carrier performance.
• Analyze phases of electronic freight payment system (EDI), rate audit, and third party freight payment Support.
• Support cross-functional ongoing analysis to optimize mode of transportation based on ordering patterns.
• Lead the identification of trends, factors and KPI’s with the objective of reducing cost per shipment.
• Drive continuous improvement and efficiencies throughout the transportation network using a data-driven approach.
• Develop, maintain, and own all cost analysis for inbound transportation and facilitate all partnerships/requests from the finance.
• Design and implement the reporting framework and dashboard for efficient performance analytics across the inbound network perform ad hoc analyses, bridge variance, validate data for dashboards, etc.
• Interface with different stakeholders (SC planning and operation/ Replenishment) to build a robust and accurate lanelevel forecasting.
• Local telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.
• 10% domestic travel required.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related field of study, and 5 years of experience in Supply Chain Transportation required.
• The company will also accept a Master’s degree and 3 years of experience in Supply Chain Transportation.
• Experience must include: Supply Chain Transportation;
• working with big data related to Transportation (Truckload, Intermodal, LTL and parcel);
• identifying trends, tracking KPI’s, and creating and reporting on freight metrics;
• developing tools, dashboards, metrics and reports to create network visibility on cost and service;
• MS Excel for Pivot Tables, vlookups, Macros, Forecasting, Data Manipulation, and Formulas;
• Microsoft Office suite, Visio, SQL, and Tableau and/or equivalent data visualization tools;
• working with OTM or other TMS; R or python programming for data analysis, statistical analysis, and automation to drive efficiency;
• cloud‐based data storage and data analytics solutions;
• Supply chain Optimization;
• decision support system for Logistics and Supply chain;
• Lean and six sigma methodologies; and
• Financial modeling to understand cost metrics, data preparation, and forecasting.
• Local telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.
• 10% domestic travel required.
• The position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program.