Trucking Pricing Associate

The opportunity: 

To continue our global expansion, we're looking for an Associate to work within our trucking organization to support in-depth business analysis and growth planning. We are looking for an individual that is driven by data and strives to creatively provide solutions that impact the business and drive growth. In this role you will be building reporting and tooling capabilities to support KPI’s, reduce CtS, forecast P&L and drive business insights, with the overall goal of making trucking efficient, automatic and profitable. 

You will:

• Collaborate with demand and partner pricing teams to support the acquisition of strategic accounts through comprehensive pricing exercises
• Develop strategies to win trucking business for our freight forwarding client base
• Manage RFPs for trucking and coordinate with regional trucking procurement team to ensure we have the service offerings in place to win the business 
• Provide account executives with the necessary trucking network intelligence to secure new business
• Set up, implement and drive new procurement strategies and programs that will enable Flexport to build a more competitive trucking product
• Conduct complex network studies based on volume flows, strategic priorities and market trends to develop recommendations on future trucking procurement 
• Provide insights and visibility to the regional procurement teams to enable them to make data driven decisions in regards to procurement strategy 
• Enable the global trucking team to accurately report on cost and net revenue for all trucking services

You should have:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, BBA or similar relevant area of study is preferred 
• 3-5 years of prior experience as a Supply Chain Solutions Analyst or in Supply Chain or Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Private Equity or Venture Capital Research would be preferred
• Experience in building complex data models on Excel, developing macros and prior SQL knowledge is a plus
• Experience in market research, building reporting tools and dashboards and working on process improvement
• Experience working in the Logistics industry or developing strategy for ground transportation would be a plus
• Strategic thinking and ground floor execution - no job is too big or too small
• Exceptional technical aptitude and strong desire for learning new technologies and solution architectures.
• A "compliance first" attitude to keep our regulators happy and enthusiastic about Flexport since we operate in a heavily regulated industry.