# Senior Transportation Analyst

**Company**: StockX
**Location**: Detroit, MI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $90,000 to $100,000 annually
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Transportation Analyst, you will use analytical and quantitative methods to understand, predict, implement, manage, and enhance transportation processes.

You will lead major projects and/or lead people working towards major objectives and goals. Your responsibilities will include:

- Understanding all cost elements of transportation; interpreting carrier rate agreements, reviewing freight charges, and performing forensic analysis on cost deviations

- Collaborating with Finance, Revenue, Operations, and Planning teams to produce analytical models to develop freight cost forecasts and support Finance with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reporting

- Developing freight cost trend analysis, determining areas of improvement, and implementing solutions and reporting on cost reduction initiatives

- Supporting carrier negotiations by providing ongoing analytical support and evaluating and comparing offers

- Designing, maintaining, and continuously improving Logistics KPIs performance monitoring systems

- Designing and building automated tools and dashboards to visualize data sets and monitor ongoing performance of implemented initiatives and processes

- Ensuring data alignment across systems and partners' platforms to drive process improvement

- Developing business cases in support of transportation initiatives

- Collecting, evaluating, analyzing, and disseminating data to leadership for decision making

- Creating BRDs and FRDs for transportation solution development and implementation

- Problem-solving for unusual circumstances and exceptions using sophisticated analytical and problem-solving techniques

The ideal candidate will have:

- Minimum of 6 years of relevant industry experience, including senior leadership assignments and/or direct people management

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, Operations Management, Business, or related field; Master's degree preferred

- Proven strategic vision with examples of leveraging existing and emerging technology and transportation services to improve customer experiences and optimize costs

- Strong knowledge of the transportation industry across all modes of transportation; expertise in eCommerce and small parcel transportation with international cross-border operational models

- Demonstrated leadership skills and experience managing complex projects and/or people

- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills

- Ability to interact with all business stakeholders in identifying business needs, building relationships, and using influence skills to successfully execute cross-functional projects

- Strong written and oral communication skills to present findings, make recommendations, and drive decisions

- Ability to multitask and work independently with attention to detail and follow-through

- Proven ability to balance priorities, follow through, and deliver results in a fast-paced, frequently changing environment

- Demonstrated analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills

- Strong customer focus with a desire to find solutions to improve the customer experience

- Proficiency with Google and MS Office suites, Business Intelligence tools, data analysis tools, and specialized tools depending on the specific role

## Skills

### Required
- analytical and quantitative methods
- transportation processes
- carrier rate agreements
- freight charges
- Business Intelligence tools
- data analysis tools
- SQK
- R
- Python
- DBT
- advanced Excel
- optimization
- databases
- financial reporting
- TMS
- WMS

### Nice to have
- Operations Research Models
- structured project management tools and techniques
- MS Project
- Trello
- Visio
- Claude
- Gemini
- ChatGpT

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