Company Overview:
Hospeco Brands Group is the hub for a strategic collection of manufacturing and sales companies that lead the way in multiple categories - from personal care and protection to textiles, from cleaning products to contamination control - to empower its distributor partners into the future. Their cohesive approach promotes operational efficiency and fuels innovation, while equipping its varied businesses to tackle the toughest challenges across industrial and manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences, food service, hospitality, transportation, and many other dynamic market segments. Hospeco Brands Group's rapid growth, both organic and via acquisition, is powered by its team of driven, innovative problem-solvers and a culture of integrity and respect.
Position Summary:
The Transportation Analyst is responsible for evaluating transportation network performance, identifying cost-saving opportunities, improving service levels, and supporting operational decision-making through data analysis. This position collaborates with transportation operations, carriers, third-party logistics (3PL) providers, customer service, and supply chain teams to optimize freight movement, enhance carrier performance, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, analytical, and proactive in identifying opportunities and implementing solutions across cross-functional teams.
Travel: Occasional travel may be required for carrier meetings, site visits, or network reviews.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Analyze transportation data, including freight spend, shipment trends, transit times, service metrics, and carrier performance across all transportation modes.
- Develop and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and reports to monitor transportation performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities and operational efficiencies across the transportation network.
- Collaborate with third-party logistics (3PL) providers to identify, evaluate, and validate transportation improvement opportunities.
- Monitor carrier performance, service levels, and compliance with contractual agreements.
- Track key performance indicators (KPIs), including on-time pickup and delivery, tender acceptance, freight costs, and claims management.
- Support carrier performance reviews, bid evaluations, transportation sourcing initiatives, and network changes.
- Evaluate shipment routing, mode selection, consolidation opportunities, and network utilization to improve transportation efficiency.
- Support transportation modeling, route optimization, and capacity planning initiatives.
- Analyze transportation expenses, budget variances, accessorial charges, and opportunities for cost control.
- Evaluate the financial impact of transportation initiatives, quantify cost savings, and track realized benefits.
- Partner with transportation operations, planning, and customer service teams to resolve shipment issues and improve service levels.
- Monitor Transportation Management System (TMS) data accuracy and support system enhancements, testing, and technology implementations.
- Assist with transportation-related projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Maintain effective communication with internal teams, carriers, and external logistics partners.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Transportation, Business, Industrial Engineering, Analytics, or a related field preferred.
- Minimum of five years of experience in transportation, logistics, supply chain, or business analytics.
- Experience working with Transportation Management Systems (TMS) and transportation-related data.
- Experience supporting carrier management or transportation operations preferred.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, and data analysis.
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or other business intelligence tools preferred.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail with an emphasis on data accuracy and reporting.
- Ability to interpret complex data and communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong organizational, time management, and project management skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external partners.