Logistics Data Analyst — Ocean & Domestic Ops

MAT Holdings, Inc; Long Grove (IL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Disability Insurance

PTO & Holidays

401k with company match

Career development

Wellness program

HSA/FSA

Life/AD&D insurance

Job summary

MAT Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Long Grove, Illinois, seeks a Logistics Analyst to support transportation operations and data-driven decision making across Ocean, Drayage, Rail, Truckload, LTL, Parcel, and Intermodal modes.

You will maintain dashboards, prepare regular reports, monitor carrier performance, and assist with budgeting, forecasts, and cost analysis while collaborating with supply chain and finance teams.

Qualifications

• Intermediate Excel skills with PivotTables, lookup formulas, charts, and data cleanup.
• Basic familiarity with Power BI or another data-visualization tool; willingness to learn dashboard development.
• Experience working with business systems, spreadsheets, and moderately large datasets.
• Basic cost analysis, reporting, and data-visualization capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain transportation dashboards, KPI scorecards, and routine reports using established templates.
• Collect, clean, validate, and organize transportation data across Ocean, Drayage, Rail, Truckload, LTL, Parcel, and Intermodal modes.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting packages for review by transportation leadership.
• Identify basic trends, exceptions, and data-quality issues affecting transportation costs and service.
• Update business unit scorecards covering freight spend, cost per pound, ocean container costs, drayage costs, accessorial charges, carrier performance, and on-time delivery.
• Assist with freight accrual, budget, forecast, and savings tracking.
• Track ocean carrier performance, transit times, allocation use, and contract-related data.
• Monitor international freight movements and maintain shipment status reports.
• Compile information on ocean market trends, carrier surcharges, port congestion, and benchmarks.
• Assist with ocean carrier bid events, rate comparisons, and basic cost analysis.
• Maintain ocean freight reporting and performance files for MAT business units.
• Track port, rail, and inland transportation activity using established reports.
• Compile drayage carrier cost, service, and accessorial data.
• Monitor detention, demurrage, chassis, storage, and other port-related expenses.
• Flag unusual charges, delayed containers, and data exceptions for review.
• Assist with drayage sourcing analyses and carrier performance reviews.
• Maintain container dwell-time and bottleneck reporting.
• Compile and analyze Truckload, LTL, Parcel, and Intermodal shipment data.
• Monitor routing guide compliance, carrier utilization, and transportation exceptions.
• Assist transportation procurement activities through rate comparisons and benchmarking.
• Support basic lane, mode, and cost analyses under guidance.
• Measure carrier performance against established service and cost expectations.
• Summarize findings and recommend follow-up actions for manager review.
• Prepare data, charts, and supporting materials for presentations and business reviews.
• Summarize transportation data into clear observations for manager review.
• Respond to routine data requests from Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Procurement, and business units.
• Assist with annual operating plans, forecasts, and budget support.
• Maintain simple cost models and savings trackers using established assumptions.
• Support transportation improvement projects and assigned workstreams.
• Identify repetitive reporting tasks that may be improved or automated.
• Assist with data maintenance and testing for FreightPop, BluViz, Xeneta, freight payment systems, SAP, and business intelligence platforms.
• Complete assigned analyses and maintain project documentation.
• Track approved savings initiatives and supporting documentation.

Skills

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Analytics, Economics, Statistics, Finance, Engineering, or related field

Tools

SAP

FreightPop

Xeneta

BluViz

Freight payment systems

Job description

MAT Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Long Grove, Illinois, seeks a Logistics Analyst to support transportation operations and data-driven decision making across Ocean, Drayage, Rail, Truckload, LTL, Parcel, and Intermodal modes.

You will maintain dashboards, prepare regular reports, monitor carrier performance, and assist with budgeting, forecasts, and cost analysis while collaborating with supply chain and finance teams.