SENIOR LOGISTICS ANALYST

Who We Are: United States Cold Storage (USCS) is driven to advance, innovate and serve companies seeking the best service, facilities, and logistics in the cold chain. We are employee-focused, an equal employment opportunity employer and would love to have you join our team.

The Job Details:

As a Senior Logistics Analyst, you’ll play a key role in driving operational efficiency and strategic decision-making through advanced data analysis and visualization. This position supports both internal performance monitoring and customer-facing logistics initiatives by developing KPIs, preparing financial reports, and using tools like Tableau and Power BI to deliver actionable insights. You'll work cross-functionally on transportation modeling, cost analysis, and continuous improvement efforts, while also mentoring co-op analysts and supporting business development through rate analysis and optimization. This is a highly visible, impactful role for an analytical professional ready to support innovation and service in the cold chain industry.

Responsibilities:

• Internal analytics of operational and financial performance; identify key trends and areas of opportunity
• KPI reporting for internal and external use
• Prepare accrual reports and assist with month end financial reporting
• Use Tableau to create live visual analytics for forecasting and decision making.
• Assistance with rate quotation analysis and development; help ensure standards of presenting and quoting rates are in place throughout all area programs.
• On-going analysis of fixed rate profitability and management of increase schedules.
• Oversight of department co-op program including hiring, training, coaching and delegation of work
• Work with non-CSC plants that need ad-hoc transportation support ranging from establishing and preparing transportation rates to developing a carrier base to support new/specialized programs.
• Support Continuous Improvement initiatives: Analyze existing business and work through TMs and Local Management to formulate strategic transportation/logistics recommendations that will enhance USCS Customer’s business and strengthen USCS/Customer relationships.
• Support business development efforts by participating in the direct sales process as needed.
• Work with USCS Business Development and local management to qualify needs for study on a case-by-case basis.
• Identifying various rules and assumptions specific to customer requirements and determine USCS system constraints to ensure accuracy of output. 
• Obtain data from customers in the required format and detail for the model.
• Optimize data through USCS optimizer: prepare data, input files through optimizer considering multiple scenarios, follow post optimization steps including cost allocation and order rating, analyze output and prepare proposal for customer.
• Ensure data accuracy through various testing methods against actual data.
• Perform impact on program analysis.
• Work with the Logistics Managers to continue to refine the model and improve output relative to customer needs.
• Assist in various testing functions as needed/required by development team.
• Assembling various operations summaries and cost analysis reports for management and to be included in the monthly company-wide metrics reports.
• Support of any TMS integration, testing, training and development efforts.

The Job Specifics:

• Location, Department and Work Hours: Camden, NJ, Logistics Analytics, Hours Vary
• Reports To: Senior Director of Logistics Services
• Travel Amount: May Vary, up to 30%
• Job Type, EEO, and Job Code: Full-Time, Exempt
• Salaried, Bi-Weekly Paid
• Salary Range: $80,000.00-$90,000.00 Per Year

What We Are Looking For:

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics or Business Analytics.

Experience:

• Minimum 3-4 years’ experience in analytics.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, SQL.
• Knowledge of Mercury Gate a plus.

Other Abilities You Will Need to Have: The physical demands described below are representative of those required of an individual performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Good arithmetic, reading, and typing skills
• Sit and/or stand for extended periods of time
• Be able to see, speak and hear
• Ability to work overtime as needed
• May require physical effort associa