About this role
This permanent Data Analyst – Transport role sits within the Solutions team in Normanton, supporting the design of operational and commercial answers to new customer opportunities. You will profile data received from customers and prospects, cleaning it and understanding volumes, flows and service requirements to turn it into a clear picture for the team. You will support the Solutions team through early stages of each opportunity, including data profiling and gaining commercial and operational sign-off, and work alongside the Head of Solutions Design on new business opportunities and smaller projects. Strong Excel skills and a transport or warehousing background are required.
Job Description
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, (url removed).