Logistics Analyst Intern

Otis Elevator Co.; United States; Remote; USD 28,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Otis Elevator Co. is seeking a Logistics Analyst Summer Intern to support the Logistics Center of Excellence in data-driven transportation and warehousing strategy development.

You will work with regional logistics, procurement, and finance stakeholders to improve cost visibility, optimize material flows, and quantify value creation. The role emphasizes hands-on analytics, RFP facilitation, and the use of AI tools to enhance carrier selection and logistics performance across regions.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work with large data sets and draw actionable conclusions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Power BI, Power Query, Python, SQL, or other analytics tools is preferred.
• Interest in artificial intelligence, automation, digital tools, and their application to supply chain and logistics decision-making.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and regional stakeholders.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with multiple priorities and evolving business needs.
• Demonstrated curiosity, ownership, attention to detail, and willingness to learn from both data and direct site engagement.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and facilitation of transportation and warehousing RFPs across global regions.
• Assist regional teams in validating inputs to and outputs from procurement events, including lane data, volume assumptions, service requirements, rate structures, and award recommendations.
• Manage data and requirements templates that ensure alignment across regional stakeholders, procurement teams, logistics leaders, and operating teams.
• Pressure test and verify procurement event results to confirm accuracy, completeness, and alignment with business requirements.
• Develop tools and reporting approaches to quantify value after implementation, including cost savings, service impacts, and compliance to awarded strategies.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Python

SQL

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in supply chain, logistics, operations, business analytics, data analytics, industrial engineering, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

Python

SQL

Job description

Role Overview

The Logistics Analyst Summer Intern will support the Logistics Center of Excellence team in advancing global transportation and warehousing strategies through data analysis, procurement event support, scenario modeling, and continuous improvement. This role is designed for a highly analytical, curious, and collaborative student who is interested in supply chain, logistics, procurement, and digital transformation.

The intern will work with regional logistics, field, supply chain, procurement, operations, and finance stakeholders to help improve cost visibility, strengthen sourcing outcomes, quantify value creation, and identify opportunities to optimize end-to-end material flows.

Key Responsibilities

RFP Development and Facilitation

• Support the development and facilitation of transportation and warehousing RFPs across global regions.
• Assist regional teams in validating inputs to and outputs from procurement events, including lane data, volume assumptions, service requirements, rate structures, and award recommendations.
• Manage data and requirements templates that ensure alignment across regional stakeholders, procurement teams, logistics leaders, and operating teams.
• Pressure test and verify procurement event results to confirm accuracy, completeness, and alignment with business requirements.
• Develop tools and reporting approaches to quantify value after implementation, including cost savings, service impacts, and compliance to awarded strategies.

Impact Analysis and Scenario Development

• Support regional teams in quantifying the impact of off-cycle changes across all modes of transportation and warehousing.
• Analyze cost, service, capacity, supplier, and operational impacts associated with changes to logistics networks, carrier selections, warehousing models, or transportation requirements.
• Develop alternative scenarios to minimize unfavorable impacts while maintaining business continuity and service expectations.
• Document required process, supplier, stakeholder, or system changes needed to implement alternative scenarios effectively.

AI Tools, Reporting, and Carrier Optimization

• Create AI-enabled tools and reports that leverage available data across regions to assess opportunities to optimize carrier selection across transportation modes.
• Compile, cleanse, and analyze data from regional logistics, procurement, payables, finance, and operations sources to identify trends, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Build dashboards, templates, or analytical models that improve visibility to logistics spend, carrier performance, implementation progress, and value capture.

Continuous Improvement Opportunity Identification

• Leverage site visits across regions to understand logistics process flows, stakeholder pain points, and opportunities to reduce cost or improve service.
• Collaborate with field, supply chain, operations, procurement, finance, and logistics stakeholders to identify opportunities that add value across end-to-end material flows.
• Support the development and implementation of programs to track the value of procurement savings and productivity initiatives across regions.
• Use available payables data to connect initiative value to measurable P&L impact.
• Prepare concise summaries, recommendations, and progress updates for leadership reviews and regional working sessions.

Education

Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, operations, business analytics, industrial engineering, data analytics, finance, or a related field.

• Must be actively pursuing a degree and remain enrolled in an accredited degree program following the internship start date in Summer 2027.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with large data sets and draw actionable conclusions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Power BI, Power Query, Python, SQL, or other analytics tools is preferred.
• Interest in artificial intelligence, automation, digital tools, and their application to supply chain and logistics decision-making.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and regional stakeholders.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with multiple priorities and evolving business needs.
• Demonstrated curiosity, ownership, attention to detail, and willingness to learn from both data and direct site engagement.

Internship Learning Outcomes

• Hands-on exposure to global logistics strategy, transportation sourcing, warehousing operations, and supplier management.
• Practical experience supporting RFP events, procurement analytics, value tracking, and logistics impact assessments.
• Experience using data and emerging AI tools to solve real business problems and improve decision-making.
• Opportunities to collaborate across regions and functions while building executive-ready communication and presentation skills.
• Understanding of how logistics savings and productivity initiatives connect to operational performance and P&L impact.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is data-driven, resourceful, and comfortable moving between analysis, stakeholder engagement, and practical implementation. This individual should be eager to learn how logistics decisions are made across regions and motivated to create tools, insights, and processes that improve cost, service, visibility, and value capture.

The hourly range for this role is $20/hr to $23/hr. We may pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may change in the future. Pay within the salary range will be based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

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Location

OTCTH: Connecticut Home Offices Remote Location, Remote City, CT, 06032 USA

Otis is the world’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation, and service company. We move 2.4 billion people every day and maintain approximately 2.4 million customer units worldwide, the industry’s largest Service portfolio.

You may recognize our products in some of the world’s most famous landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Twin Towers! We are 72,000 people strong, including engineers, digital technology experts, sales, and functional specialists, as well as factory and field technicians, all committed to meeting the diverse needs of our customers and passengers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. We are proud to be a diverse, global team with a proven legacy of innovation that continues to be the bedrock of a fast-moving, high-performance company.

When you join Otis, you become part of an innovative global industry leader with a resilient business model. You’ll belong to a diverse, trusted, and caring community where your contributions, and the skills and capabilities you’ll gain working alongside the best and brightest, keep us connected and on the cutting edge.

We provide opportunities, training, and resources, that build leadership and capabilities in Sales, Field, Engineering and Major Projects and our Employee Scholar Program is a notable point of pride, through which Otis sponsors colleagues to pursue degrees or certification programs.

Today, our focus more than ever is on people. As a global, people-powered company, we put people – passengers, customers, and colleagues – at the center of everything we do. We are guided by our values that we call our Three Absolutes – prioritizing Safety, Ethics, Quality in all that we do. If you would like to learn more about environmental, social and governance (ESG) at Otis click here.

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