JOB DESCRIPTION

An employer in the Nashville area is looking for a Sr. Transportation Analyst/Optimization Specialist to support optimization efforts for the transportation department. Will partner and support distribution centers, retail stores, vendors and transportation group with improvement activities. Will find inefficiencies in the data by using formulas to mind and identify trends, will then use that information to tell a story and provide insight into how the company can improve to be more efficient. After identifying the problem, they will present solutions to stakeholders and then will deploy to the location to fix the problem. Will travel to the manufacturing plants/distribution centers 1 week/month -meeting with local site leadership, providing them with data findings, and making the change to ensure they are improving various KPIs that maximize service and costs.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of transportation/logistics planning experience (open to material planning, finished goods planning, or demand & supply chain planning experience too)
• Strong analytical experience - analyzing data for trends, and identifying solutions (Tableau, SQL, Power BI, etc.)
• Advanced Excel experience - must have advanced formulas to mine data
• Comfortable traveling 1 week/month - ability to build relationships
• Hybrid onsite schedule in Nashville
• Bachelor's degree preferred