Senior Analyst, Commercial Strategy - Hybrid
About The Position
XPO is a leading provider of world-class solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make XPO a great place to work. The Senior Analyst, Commercial Strategy will assist in the development and implementation of Commercial Strategies for the Pricing Organization. This role will proactively formulate new commercial and pricing initiatives to drive company results, coordinate cross-functionally to develop tools and establish best practices, and support the Pricing Organization with advanced analytical processes and models. The analyst will execute, evaluate, and report the success of various initiatives to the senior leadership team and conduct analyses under different pricing scenarios to compare net results. Additionally, they will conduct Root Cause analysis.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
