Business Intelligence Analyst

Creating insights to revolutionize an industry

The opportunity: 

Want more jobs like this?

Get jobs in Chicago, IL delivered to your inbox every week.

Get Jobs

Send me The Muse newsletters for the best in career advice and job search tips.

By signing up, you agree to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy.

Fast, accurate insights are integral in allowing us to fulfill our mission of fixing the user experience in global trade. At Flexport you’ll conduct analyses that are at the forefront of reshaping the entire logistics & supply chain industries. You’ll work alongside self-starters interested in solving real-world problems and streamlining the inefficiencies in the complex global trade industry. You’ll have the opportunity to improve an industry by analyzing the new operating system for global trade.

You will:

• Flexport is a company that runs on data - you'll be transforming data into action by working cross-functionally with the entirety of Flexport.
• Meet with stakeholders - from business and product - to understand OKR requirements and convert them into analytical solutions
• Model new product analytics datasets built on our proprietary operations software to optimize growth strategies and cost reductions
• Improve operational and financial productivity across our business and software
• Rapid prototype new functionality via dashboards to enable new ways of working and discover best practices for workflow management across all of Flexport's departments;
• Contribute and grow the culture of excellence on our team by bringing processes and best practices to our group. 
• Influence the roadmap for both the Data Analytics department and the stakeholders we support

You should have:  

• 5+ years of experience in a Data Analyst, BI Engineer, Product Analyst, or similar role
• Strong SQL fluency required – from building entire ERDs of tables containing complex logic to analyzing those datasets into consumable insights for the business.
• Professional familiarity with applied statistics and scripting languages like Python or R (python preferred)
• Experience ELT data modeling, especially with dbt (data build tool) is a plus; building analytical narratives using data visualizations (Looker is a plus)
• Executive communication skills and empathy to understand and discover business pain points and build solutions to improve the user experience at all levels of the global trade process
• Interest in optimizing operational productivity and measuring automation across our software and business processes

#LI-hybrid