Senior Data Analyst

Job Title: Senior Data Analyst
Job Location: Beaverton, OR
Job Duration: 6 Months (Hybrid)

Who We Are Looking For
 
The Insights Senior Analyst, Last Mile Transportation is part of the Capacity, Performance, and Planning (CPP) team within North America Trade & Transportation’s team. This role is responsible for analyzing and extracting insights from last mile transportation data including transactional data, shipping costs, and forecasting. This role is essential to ensuring that North America Transportation leverages analytics to optimize marketplace service and efficiency and supports Client’s Supply Chain and Marketplace Strategy. The Senior Analyst partners closely with other NA Trade & Transportation (T&T) teams to provide visibility to key operational metrics, supports sourcing events and works closely with supply chain capability development organization and cross-functional peers.
 
We’re seeking an analytical and driven individual who can excel in a dynamic environment. The ideal candidate will possess a strong ability to navigate ambiguity, think critically, manage competing priorities, and drive results with a proactive and entrepreneurial mindset.
 
Job Description:       

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, or combination of relevant education, experience, and training
• Descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics experience with complex, unrefined data using a variety of analytical and statistical toolsets, examples include SQL, Python, Alteryx, R, or other data manipulation/mining tools
• Expertise in data cleaning, transformation, and integration processes, ensuring that data is structured appropriately and ready for analysis.
• Ability to conduct root cause analysis to pinpoint variances, and recommend solutions to avoid variances in the future
• Demonstrated experience simplifying complex analytics to explain difficult concepts and garner cross-functional buy in
• 5+ years of progressive analytics experience in the field of logistics
• 5+ years of experience with SQL, 4+ years of experience in Python, 2+ years of experience in Databricks, 4+ years of experience in Tableau
• Excellent communication and organizational skills

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in Transportation or Supply Chain industry
• 1+ year of Airtable experience
• Strong proficiency in Agile methodologies with a track record of successfully delivering projects in iterative and collaborative environments
• Consulting or Finance experience is preferred

 
What you’ll work on:
Some examples of what you’ll work on include:

• Maintain centralized Transportation-related data consumption and reporting layers, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their data requirements and provide them with reliable and well-structured data
• Drive analysis of financial and operational performance data to identify key insights and opportunities to improve the end-to-end transportation network leveraging analytical modeling and predictive analytics
• Report business key performance indicators (KPIs) for senior leadership and partner with the stakeholders to deliver relevant analysis and insights.
• Provide data-driven insights to support business operations, including detailed spend forecasting, volume/spend analytics, and vendor selection/allocation recommendations
• Coordinate and lead large analytical projects with firm deadlines; conduct ad-hoc analysis to support strategic discussions with key internal and external partners; and support capability development to drive business growth and performance across business segments and stakeholders

 
Manager Notes:
On-site role at WHQ; WFH Fridays
~6 month contract from start date
Degree not a requirement for this role
Tableau specialist certification would be nice to have in this role, not required
 
5+ years’ experience minimum in a data analyst role
 
Top skills for this position include the following:
Ability to conduct root cause analysis to pinpoint variances, and recommend solutions to avoid variances in the future
 

• SQL expertise (5+ years)
• Python (4+ years)
• Tableau (4+ years)
• Databrick (2+ years)

 
Excellent communication and organizational skills
2+ years’ experience in the Transportation or Supply Chain industry will be a requirement for this role
 
Desired soft skills include the following:
Go-getter attitude
Self-navigating skills; someone who tries to identify the solution on their own instead of asking for help first
 
Prior Client’s experience preferred

• Someone with the combination of required analytical tech skills along with the above-listed soft skills would be the ideal candidate
• The candidate will work with a larger group of ~12 people, but will work directly/closely with ~3-4 teammates

Team anticipates ~2 rounds of interviews