Logistics Analyst

<p><strong>Logistics Analyst</strong></p><p>Parcel Analytics | Postage Auditing | Transportation Optimization Good Company | Springfield, MO </p><p>(In-Person) | Full-Time</p><p>Pay: $55,000 - $70,000 base DOE</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Position Overview</strong></p><p>We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Logistics Analyst to support our </p><p>transportation and parcel operations. This role will focus on postage analysis, carrier billing and </p><p>auditing, client shipping performance, and identifying opportunities to improve transportation cost </p><p>and efficiency.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Logistics Analyst will work closely with our Small Parcel team to monitor millions of annual </p><p>parcel shipments across national and regional carriers. This is an ideal role for someone who </p><p>enjoys working with large datasets, investigating discrepancies, identifying optimization </p><p>opportunities, and turning shipping data into actionable recommendations.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Postage &amp; Financial Analysis</strong></p><p>• Analyze client postage spend, shipping methods, carrier mix, and transportation costs</p><p>• Reconcile carrier invoices against shipment and postage data</p><p>• Audit postage billing for rate, weight, dimensional, accessorial, and other adjustments</p><p>• Track and manage carrier claims, credits, disputes, and refunds</p><p>• Analyze carrier rate increases, surcharges, and pricing changes and quantify their financial impact</p><p>• Identify cost-saving and transportation optimization opportunities</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Carrier &amp; Rate-Shop Analysis</strong></p><p>• Monitor carrier utilization, cost, service levels, and shipment performance</p><p>• Build and maintain carrier and client postage scorecards</p><p>• Analyze rate-shop, rating, routing, and service-selection trends</p><p>• Investigate unexpected changes in carrier mix or shipment behavior</p><p>• Validate carrier rates and rate-card changes</p><p>• Support postage optimization projects</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Client Postage &amp; Optimization</strong></p><p>• Perform client-level postage and shipping analyses</p><p>• Build baselines around carrier mix, service selection, shipment characteristics, and transportation spend</p><p>• Identify opportunities to improve client shipping strategies, transportation costs, and service performance</p><p>• Analyze package dimensions, weights, packaging utilization, and DIM impacts</p><p>• Identify opportunities for carrier, service, packaging, and routing optimization</p><p>• Support holiday, peak-season, surcharge, and annual rate-change analysis</p><p>• Assist with postage calculators, pricing analysis, and client transportation solutions</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><p>• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Business Analytics, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field preferred</p><p>• 2+ years of experience in logistics, transportation, parcel, supply chain, finance, or analytics preferred</p><p>• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including pivot tables, lookups, formulas, and analysis of large datasets</p><p>• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills</p><p>• High attention to detail and ability to investigate discrepancies through root cause</p><p>• Comfortable working with large, imperfect financial, operational, and shipment-level datasets</p><p>• Ability to translate analysis into clear findings, financial impacts, and recommendations</p><p>• Ability to communicate findings clearly across Finance, Operations, Account Management, and Technology</p><p>• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, BigQuery, SQL, Python, or similar analytical tools preferred</p><p>• Experience identifying measurable cost savings or optimization opportunities preferred</p><p>• Experience with parcel carriers, TMS/WMS platforms, rate shopping, carrier billing, or 3PL </p><p>operations is a strong plus</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>What Success Looks Like</strong></p><p>A successful Logistics Analyst will become a trusted analytical resource for understanding what is </p><p>driving transportation spend, how carrier and client shipping behavior is changing, and where </p><p>opportunities exist to improve cost and performance.</p><p><br /></p><p>This person will proactively identify trends, discrepancies, and optimization opportunities, </p><p>quantify their impact, and work with the broader transportation team to turn those findings into </p><p>measurable improvements.</p><p><br /></p><p>They will be able to quickly answer: What changed? Why did it change? What is the impact? And what </p><p>can we do about it?</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>How to Apply</strong></p><p>Send us a short note about why you're excited about this role and include:</p><p><br /></p><p>• An example of a logistics, transportation, finance, or data project you've worked on.</p><p>• A time you used data to identify a trend, discrepancy, or improvement opportunity.</p><p><br /></p>