Transportation Analyst: Freight, Data & Optimization

Watts Water Technologies; Fort Worth (TX); Hybride; USD 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive compensation

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

10 paid holidays

Paid Time Off

Professional development opportunities

Educational reimbursement

Fitness reimbursements

Employee discount programs

Résumé du poste

Watts Water Technologies is seeking a Transportation Specialist to support North American transportation operations by coordinating freight movement, analyzing performance data, and driving continuous improvement. This hybrid role can be based in Fort Worth, TX or other specified locations.

The position emphasizes developing reports, dashboards, and KPIs, collaborating with carriers and internal teams, and ensuring compliant, efficient transportation across domestic and international operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in transportation, logistics, shipping, or related operations.
• Familiar with various equipment sizes, modes of transportation and fleet operations.
• Ability to analyze transportation data and reporting to identify cost, service, and operational improvement opportunities.
• Strong organization, customer service and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsabilités

• Analyze transportation performance, freight spend, service trends, carrier scorecards, and operational metrics to identify opportunities for cost reduction, service improvement, and network optimization.
• Develop and maintain transportation reports, dashboards, KPIs, and data visualizations that support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Support transportation projects and continuous improvement initiatives by conducting data analysis, documenting business requirements, testing solutions, and measuring results.
• Assist with transportation system enhancements, implementations, upgrades, and user acceptance testing for ERP, TMS, carrier, and logistics platforms.
• Evaluate transportation processes and workflows, recommend improvements, and support standardization efforts across domestic and international operations.
• Develop productive working relationships with transportation partners, carriers, freight forwarders, and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain transportation-related data, documentation, reporting structures, and system information within ERP, TMS, carrier, and partner platforms.
• Perform freight audit, invoice review, transportation accruals, reporting, and administrative compliance activities.
• Provide analytical support for carrier procurement initiatives, service reviews, bid events, transportation contracts, and performance evaluations.
• Lead shipment visibility, exception management, root cause analysis, and corrective action activities to improve transportation execution and customer service.
• Provide backup support for international transportation activities including air, ocean, import, export, and cross-border freight.
• Coordinate domestic transportation activities including parcel, LTL, truckload, expedited, inbound, outbound, and intercompany shipments.
• Monitor shipment execution, resolve transportation issues, and communicate status updates to internal stakeholders.
• Support service, cost, compliance, and operational objectives while ensuring adherence to company policies, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.
• Assist with transportation compliance, freight forwarder coordination, customs documentation support, and transportation governance activities as required.
• Demonstrate behaviors aligned with Watts Values of Integrity, Accountability, Continuous Improvement, and Transparency.
• Travel domestically up to 10%.

Connaissances

Transportation data analysis

KPI reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Problem solving

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or related field

Outils

SAP experience

ERP systems

TMS familiarity

Description du poste

Watts Water Technologies is seeking a Transportation Specialist to support North American transportation operations by coordinating freight movement, analyzing performance data, and driving continuous improvement. This hybrid role can be based in Fort Worth, TX or other specified locations.

The position emphasizes developing reports, dashboards, and KPIs, collaborating with carriers and internal teams, and ensuring compliant, efficient transportation across domestic and international operations.