Remote Transportation Analytics Leader

Hormel Foods; Omaha (NE); Remote; USD 89,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses and profit sharing

401(k) with employer match

Stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Hormel Foods is seeking a Transportation Analytics Lead to develop, maintain, and enhance analytics, dashboards, and decision-support capabilities that drive data-driven transportation decisions. You will transform transportation data into actionable insights and partner with Operations, Product Management, Finance, and Enterprise Data & Analytics to ensure accurate information for decision making.

The role focuses on reporting, KPI analysis, scenario modeling, and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in transportation analytics, supply chain analytics, business intelligence, or related analytical roles.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Experience developing dashboards, reports, and KPI scorecards.
• Experience translating business requirements into analytical solutions.
• Working knowledge of transportation operations and performance metrics.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present analytical findings to business partners.
• Must be a Citizen or National of the United States or have authorization to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance transportation business intelligence solutions, including dashboards, scorecards, KPI reporting, and operational reports.
• Analyze transportation performance, cost, and service data to identify trends, risks, root causes, and opportunities to improve efficiency and results.
• Support transportation optimization and continuous improvement initiatives across carrier performance, routing, mode selection, shipment consolidation, freight and capacity utilization, lane performance, asset utilization, and network efficiency.
• Maintain and validate enterprise transportation KPIs and analytical standards, ensuring consistent calculations and data integrity.
• Conduct scenario and quantitative analysis to evaluate transportation network changes and quantify impacts.
• Prepare and analyze datasets that support optimization models and measure business impact of solutions.
• Partner cross-functionally to translate business needs into analyses and data-driven recommendations.
• Communicate analytical findings through visualizations, reporting, and presentations to support adoption of transportation analytics tools.

Skills

Analytics

Dashboards

KPIs

Requirements gathering

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in Supply Chain

Tools

BI tools

Job description

Hormel Foods is seeking a Transportation Analytics Lead to develop, maintain, and enhance analytics, dashboards, and decision-support capabilities that drive data-driven transportation decisions. You will transform transportation data into actionable insights and partner with Operations, Product Management, Finance, and Enterprise Data & Analytics to ensure accurate information for decision making.

The role focuses on reporting, KPI analysis, scenario modeling, and continuous improvement