Senior Freight Analyst

Whoop Whoop · Consumer · Boston, MA · Operations

This role focuses on optimizing transportation costs, managing carrier performance, and conducting freight analytics within a global logistics network. The analyst will partner with carriers and internal teams to improve service levels and reduce costs, requiring strong analytical skills and experience in logistics operations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Analyze freight spend across all transportation modes and identify cost-saving opportunities
  2. Monitor and improve carrier performance, SLAs, and service levels
  3. Support rate benchmarking and carrier negotiations with data-driven insights
  4. Build and maintain dashboards and reporting for freight KPIs
  5. Partner with Logistics and Finance teams to support budgeting and cost tracking

Skills

Required

  • transportation
  • freight
  • logistics operations
  • analytical skills
  • strategic thinking
  • hands-on execution
  • Microsoft Excel
  • carrier negotiations

Nice to have

  • TMS systems

What the JD emphasized

  • Strong experience and commitment to leveraging AI tools in day-to-day work