Senior Data Analyst, FourKites
+ Stock Options
AI supply chain orchestration & visibility platform
Job no longer available
AI supply chain orchestration & visibility platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To drive end-to-end supply chain orchestration, with visibility as the foundation.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Business, Economics, or other related fields
- Preferred Master’s degree/MBA in Data Analytics or a related field
- 5 years of related work experience in data analytics, sales operations, management consulting or supply chain management area
- Strong analytical, problem solving and quantitative analysis skills using structured and unstructured data
- Solid knowledge of database, data lake, data analytics and visualization tools
- Certifications and experience in SalesForce and Einstein Bot highly advantageous
- Proficient in tools like SQL, Python and spreadsheets
- Experience with data visualization tools, such as SalesForce, Tableau, Looker, etc
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure or AWS, SalesForce, Jira and Confluence
- Knowledge of six sigma/ lean or similar process improvement methodologies advantageous
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong planning, project management and organizational skills
- High attention to detail & forward thinking
- Ability to work individually or within a team in a fast paced environment
- Great communication skills
What the job involves
- FourKites is looking for a data analyst to support business intelligence and analytics efforts throughout our organization and identify opportunities for improvements through data-driven decision making
- This new team member will work in our Customer Operations team in Chicago (or remote to match US time zones) and work cross-functionally with sales, product, operations and engineering
- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
- Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
- Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems, incl robust ETL process
- Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
- Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
- Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
- Establishes the performance baselines, builds dashboards, and transforms data through the use of SQL/Python Programming and SalesForce plugins
- Utilizes transportation industry knowledge to understand and lead analyses of customer injection, market trends and competitive landscape
- Develops models and algorithms to forecast the expected delivery date for multiple different products
- Models and optimizes processes to support product management via Excel, Access and Python or other statistical tools
- Analyzes alternative network model scenarios for routing and commercial approaches and evaluates impact on profitability, service and customer’s cost for presentation to management
- Analyzes performance in terms of revenue, cost and service to identify opportunities to optimize service level, maintain efficiency and minimize cost
- Provides guidance to developing performance metrics, data structure required and connect them to business goals and objectives
- Supports ad-hoc requests from the leadership team by providing data driven conclusions and recommendations to help drive customer retention and growth
Our take
The trucking industry has long struggled with inefficiencies, particularly due to a lack of visibility and shipping data. This often results in trucks underutilizing their capacity and driving empty miles. While Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) have been introduced as a solution, they haven't motivated drivers employed by trucking companies to address these inefficiencies.
FourKites offers a digital platform that enhances visibility and efficiency in trucking routes and cargo capacity, reducing the number of empty miles. Rather than focusing on trucking companies or drivers, FourKites targets businesses that require shipping, aligning with their financial incentives to improve logistics efficiency.
Amid a competitive landscape of startups addressing inefficiencies in trucking, FourKites has found success by partnering with shipping companies and businesses that need their services. by making shipping partnerships contingent on using their technology, FourKites bypasses driver reluctance and delivers real efficiency improvements for the entire shipping process.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2022
$10m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $211.6m
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Matthew Elenjickal
(Founder & CEO)Matthew spent half a decade at i2 Technologies and served as an Oracle Consultant, before taking an MBA at Northwestern University. On graduation, they founded FourKites in August 2014, serving ever since as CEO.
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