Logistics Analyst
Logistics Analyst
Position Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Support and optimize the lead logistics provider model across the Americas.
- Manage relationships and performance expectations with carriers, freight forwarders, and logistics providers.
- Analyze freight spend, carrier performance, service levels, transit times, and on-time delivery.
- Develop and monitor transportation KPIs and carrier scorecards.
- Use TMS data to identify service issues, trends, exceptions, and improvement opportunities.
- Maintain transportation data accuracy and support data flow between systems.
- Build reports and dashboards using Excel, Power BI, or similar tools.
- Work with internal stakeholders to resolve transportation issues and improve shipment visibility.
- Map current and future transportation processes using Visio, Lucidchart, or similar tools.
- Recommend improvements related to cost, service, carrier performance, reporting, and process efficiency.
- Support both international and domestic inbound transportation initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- 4-6 years of transportation, logistics, or supply-chain experience.
- Previous transportation experience directly within a manufacturer, distributor, retailer, or other shipper organization.
- International shipping experience, with meaningful exposure to air freight.
- Hands-on experience using a transportation management system.
- Experience managing or evaluating carriers, freight forwarders, 3PLs, 4PLs, or lead logistics providers.
- Ability to analyze transportation data and translate findings into practical recommendations.
- Proficiency with Excel and transportation reporting.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work onsite five days per week in Westerville.
Preferred Qualifications
- Power BI experience.
- Oracle TMS or Oracle ERP experience.
- Kinaxis experience.
- Ocean-freight experience.
- Experience supporting shipments across APAC or EMEA.
- Experience managing a lead logistics provider or 4PL relationship.
- Process-mapping experience using Visio or Lucidchart.
- Exposure to AI, reporting automation, or logistics workflow automation.
- Spanish-language skills.
Ideal Candidate
Why Consider This Opportunity?
- Join a growing organization with a large, complex transportation network.
- Gain broad exposure to international freight, carrier management, TMS operations, and transportation analytics.
- Take on meaningful responsibility and visibility early.
- Help shape a newly created role and improve logistics processes.
- Work in an environment where initiative, curiosity, and continuous improvement are valued.
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