Global Ocean Freight Analytics Lead | AI-Aware Insights

AIT Worldwide Logistics; Colnbrook; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension plan

Life assurance

Annual leave 26 days

Eyecare vouchers

Cycle to Work

Volunteer hours

Job summary

AIT Worldwide Logistics is seeking a Global Containerized Ocean Freight Analyst to join our international team. The role focuses on performance reporting, executive-ready materials, and cross-functional ocean freight projects across global networks.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in containerized ocean freight, strong data skills with Power BI, Excel, SQL, and experience with AI-enabled reporting, while navigating multiple regions and time zones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, logistics, business, analytics, or related field; equivalent experience considered
• Relevant training in supply chain, analytics, project management, data visualization, or AI preferred
• 5+ years of professional containerized ocean freight experience required
• Global ocean reporting, pricing/procurement, carrier management, BI, project delivery, or process improvement preferred
• Experience working across regions and time zones; ocean carrier/NVOCC/forwarder operations, procurement, pricing, tender/RFQ, reporting, data governance, and executive communications

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly and quarterly global containerized ocean performance reporting pack, including TEU volumes, revenue and margin, buy/sell rate performance, service quality, schedule reliability, budget variance, and forecast indicators.
• Design, maintain, and improve Power BI and Excel dashboards; reconcile inputs from CargoWise, carrier and market sources, regional teams, and finance; document KPI definitions, data lineage, and data-quality controls.
• Prepare executive-ready PowerPoint slide decks and leadership readouts that convert complex ocean freight data into clear trends, risks, opportunities, recommendations, and actions.
• Deliver ad hoc analysis on trade lanes, ports, carriers, equipment, capacity, blank sailings, rates, demurrage and detention, customer or vertical performance, and other ocean freight topics as requested by leadership.
• Support global ocean projects, including business cases, network and operating-model changes, carrier scorecards, procurement and RFQ/tender analysis, standardization, process improvement, and implementation tracking.
• Facilitate monthly and quarterly performance reviews with regional and cross-functional stakeholders; surface root causes, agree corrective actions, maintain decision and action logs, and follow through to closure.
• Identify and implement safe, practical AI use cases for ocean reporting and analysis, such as natural-language KPI summaries, anomaly detection, data classification, scenario analysis, and presentation drafting, with human validation, privacy controls, and clear accountability for final outputs.
• Other duties, responsibilities, and special projects will be assigned as business demands deem necessary.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

SQL

CargoWise

AI productivity tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, logistics, analytics, or related field

Tools

CargoWise

SQL

Job description

AIT Worldwide Logistics is seeking a Global Containerized Ocean Freight Analyst to join our international team. The role focuses on performance reporting, executive-ready materials, and cross-functional ocean freight projects across global networks.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in containerized ocean freight, strong data skills with Power BI, Excel, SQL, and experience with AI-enabled reporting, while navigating multiple regions and time zones.