Senior Analyst, Transportation

The Role: Senior Analyst, Transportation (Remote)

We're looking for...

An analytical and technically skilled individual to lead our Transportation analytics and data mining efforts. In this role you will be responsible for developing metrics and reporting, understanding and managing data structure, strategic analysis, and rigorous deep dives to inform business decisions.  In addition to developing and delivering dashboards that help us manage the movement, tracking and shipping of goods to our members, you will also work with business teams on how to surface member insights. 

This is a highly cross functional role where you'll work with key stakeholders across Business Intelligence, Operations, Customer Service, Product, Finance and program teams, to drive process improvement and track progress against goals. 

If you have excellent analytical abilities, outstanding business acumen and comfort with operational metrics and systems, this is the role for you!

What You'll Do:

• Drive standard business reporting processes, including weekly/quarterly business reviews, and annual goal reviews
• Utilize statistical analysis and modeling techniques to inform data-driven decision-making
• Generating key business insights required to deliver against core input/output metric goals
• Evaluate transportation costs, including shipping rates, last-mile delivery expenses, and operational costs
• Develop cost-saving strategies and conduct cost-benefit analyses for e-commerce transportation initiatives
• Create KPI dashboards for our internal site performance as well as 3rd party shipping partners, ensuring data is presented in an easily understandable manner for performance management
• Complete analysis (regression, correlation, etc.) to determine contributing factors to KPI results, providing insights into mitigation 
• Proactively seek to identify areas of opportunity for process improvement and provide solutions based on a broad and deep knowledge of data resources, industry best-practices, and determine ROI
• Provide crucial customer feedback and insights to our Management Team

ABOUT YOU:

At Rue Gilt Groupe, diversity enriches our passion, collaboration, kindness and innovation. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every Associate is empowered to learn, grow and bring their full self to work. Even if you don't check off every qualification in the job description, that's okay. We encourage you to apply to any role that excites you and sparks delight! We can't wait to learn more about you.

• 5+ years of direct experience working with parcel and freight carrier data
• Prior experience working with Transportation (Parcel, TL/LTL), Logistics, and Operations KPIs and data sets
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel (e.g., complex statements, VBA, conditional formatting)
• Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau
• Familiarity with SQL, relational databases, and ETLM
• Familiarity manipulating large sets of data, summarizing into metrics, and conducting appropriate statistical tests (e.g., regression, t-test, chi-square)
• Experience in designing and implementing custom reporting systems and dashboards
• Excellent written and verbal communication; high quality document and report preparation

Bonus points for... 

• Experience with Transportation Management Systems
• Experience conducting large scale data analysis to support business decision making
• Project management experience 
• Expertise with DTC (Direct to Consumer) and e-commerce

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