Data Analyst- Transport

Job Title: Data Analyst (Solutions)

Location: Normanton, Wakefield

Salary: £45,000 base + benefits

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Loom Talent is exclusively partnering with a leading UK transport, warehousing and distribution business to recruit a Data Analyst into their Solutions team, based at their Normanton site.

The Solutions team designs the operational and commercial answer to new customer opportunities, taking a prospect's data, working out how their freight should be moved and stored and costing it.

What you'll be doing:

• Profiling data received from customers and prospects: cleaning it, understanding volumes, flows and service requirement and turning it into a clear picture for the team
• Supporting the Solutions team through the early stages of each opportunity, including data profiling and gaining commercial and operational sign-off
• Working alongside the Head of Solutions Design on new business opportunities and smaller projects
• Building the skills to design solutions and present them to the operational and commercial teams

What we're looking for:

• Strong Excel skills, comfortable working with large datasets, formulas, lookups and pivot tables
• A background in transport or warehousing, for example transport coordination, planning or supervision, or a warehouse role
• A basic understanding of transport operations, such as vehicle and trailer types and how loads are moved
• Experience using a warehouse management system (WMS) or managing operational data in Excel
• Curious, analytical and keen to learn, with a real interest in moving into solutions design

Desirable:

• A degree or technical background (e.g. maths, data, engineering, supply chain or logistics)
• Experience of Paragon or another routing/planning system
• Exposure to costing, pricing or commercial analysis in logistics

As the exclusive partner on this search, all applications come directly to us. To apply, or for a confidential conversation about the role, contact Kieran Hayes at Loom Talent, .