Supply Analyst

Job Summary

The Supply Analyst – Freight Sales & Pricing supports the freight pricing and sales organization by analyzing carrier capacity, transportation costs, lane activity, pricing trends, and shipment data to improve decision-making and profitability.

This position serves as an analytical partner to Freight Sales, Brokerage Operations, and Transportation teams, helping identify available capacity, competitive pricing opportunities, carrier trends, and areas where the business can improve service and margin. The Supply Analyst will transform transportation data into actionable insights that allow the team to make faster, data-driven decisions and better support customer freight needs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Analyze carrier capacity, freight rates, lane activity, shipment volume, and transportation trends to identify opportunities and potential supply constraints.

• Support the Freight Sales and Brokerage teams with lane-level pricing and market intelligence to improve quoting and customer solutions.

• Monitor buy rates, sell rates, gross margin, cost per shipment, and other transportation KPIs to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.

• Develop dashboards, reports, and recurring analyses that provide visibility into carrier supply, transportation costs, brokerage activity, service performance, and profitability.

• Identify lanes or markets where additional carrier capacity and sourcing efforts are needed and partner with brokerage/operations teams to improve coverage.

• Analyze historical shipment activity to identify patterns in volume, seasonality, capacity, carrier utilization, and pricing.

• Partner with Sales to analyze prospective or existing customer freight profiles and identify opportunities to price, source, and service freight competitively.

• Conduct root-cause analysis on margin erosion, service failures, capacity shortages, or significant rate variances and recommend corrective actions.

• Evaluate carrier and transportation performance to identify opportunities to improve cost, service, reliability, and capacity utilization.

• Assist with freight bids, RFPs, pricing exercises, customer reviews, and other analytical projects supporting business growth.

• Maintain accurate reporting and data used by Freight Sales and Brokerage leadership for forecasting and business decisions.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Brokerage Operations, Transportation, Finance, Customer Service, and other supply chain teams.

• Identify opportunities to automate reporting and improve the accuracy, speed, and consistency of freight analysis.

Internal transportation materials similarly emphasize KPIs such as cost per shipment, on-time delivery, budget variance, root-cause analysis and cross-functional partnership. [Bray, Chase in chat | Teams]

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, Business, Finance, Analytics, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

• 2+ years of experience in transportation, logistics, freight brokerage, supply chain analytics, pricing, operations, or a related analytical role preferred.

• Understanding of truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), freight brokerage, carrier capacity, and transportation pricing preferred.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations.

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including experience working with large datasets, PivotTables, lookups, formulas, and data analysis.

• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, transportation management systems (TMS), or similar analytical tools preferred.

• Ability to analyze pricing, transportation cost, freight volumes, service performance, and profitability.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain analytical findings to both sales and operational audiences.

• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced transportation environment.

• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across Sales and Operations.

An internal supply-chain analyst description specifically emphasizes advanced Excel work with large datasets, business analytics tools, SQL familiarity, quantitative problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration, which are especially transferable to this position.