What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Analyst, Commercial Strategy position at XPO?
What you’ll need to succeed as a Senior Analyst, Commercial Strategy at XPO
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work or military experience
- 2 years of professional experience in quantitative analysis
- Demonstrate ability to derive insight from data, formulate solutions and drive action
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate with all levels of a large organization
- Able to use, evaluate and contribute to computer-generated decision-support models
- Experience with data mining using business intelligence software
- Expert at designing and/or improving pricing-related processes within the company to drive financial results
- Able to collaborate with the Pricing team leadership to establish and implement a pricing strategy and tactical plan
- Able to do critical evaluation and review processes, make recommendations, influence the outcome of a decision, improve processes and take ownership of the results
- Expert at data analysis based on input from several departments and data sources, including Sales, Pricing, Linehaul, Operations, etc. and GBQ and Looker
- Able to demonstrate leadership to drive results. Self-driven and taking ownership over workload with minimal management support
- Expert at collaboration with leaders across the organization (i.e. pricing, sales, operations) to establish and implement a pricing strategy and tactical plan
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Bachelor's degree in Finance Statistics, Economics or Mathematics
- Master’s degree
- 5 years of professional experience in quantitative analysis and Less Than Truckload (LTL) pricing/cost modeling
- Project Management experience
- Experience with SQL
- Working knowledge of statistics and statistical packages in Python, R or similar programming languages
- Highly organized work style with proven ability to multitask
About the Senior Analyst, Commercial Strategy job
Pay, benefits and more:
- Competitive compensation package
- Full health insurance benefits are available on day one
- Life and disability insurance
- Earn up to 15 days of PTO over your first year
- 9 paid company holidays
- 401(k) option with company match
- Education assistance
- Opportunity to participate in a company incentive plan
What you’ll do on a typical day:
- Assist in the development and implementation of Commercial Strategies for the Pricing Organization
- Proactively formulate new commercial and pricing initiatives to drive company results
- Coordinate cross-functionally to develop tools and establish best practices
- Support the Pricing Organization with advanced analytical processes and models
- Execute, evaluate and report the success of various initiatives to the senior leadership team
- Conduct analyses under different pricing scenarios to compare net results
- Conduct Root Cause analysis
About XPO
XPO is a top ten global provider of transportation services, with a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets. At XPO, we look for employees who like a challenge and can communicate effectively in all situations. We want to leverage your skills and years of experience to drive positive results while ensuring a bright future for yourself and XPO. If you’re looking for a growth opportunity, join us at XPO.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.
All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test.
The above statements are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties and skills for this job classification.
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