Transpacific Trade Analyst

ZIM•Virginia Beach, VA

About The Position

This position holds the responsibility of monitoring, analyzing, trend reporting, and pricing. The main purpose of the role is to monitor market share, utilization, and customer performance. Major areas of responsibility include monitoring market share, utilization, and customer performance, as well as analysis and trend reporting.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university
1-2 years’ experience in trade positions or equivalent is highly preferred.
Strong analytical skills.
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet, Data Manipulation, Formulas, Lookups, Pivot Tables, Etc.

Nice To Haves

Shipping industry experience is an advantage.

Responsibilities

Assist in managing trade documents, such as DTLI tracker, revenue reports, pipeline, and actual performance monitoring vs. budget & sales target.
Maintain market share data / competition analysis and customer performance on a weekly basis and advise outliers to the trade team.
Maintain trade databases and reporting tools.
Maintain Tariff Database pricing system – tariff FMC and Non-FMC. Update on a monthly/quarterly basis.
Forecast monitoring vs bookings vs actuals tracking.
System Quality check, to ensure that country/district follow though company’s best practices related to auto-freight and timely bookings.
Review HIVE rules and set up.
Update Booking Tool parameters.
Late gate and space approval.
Analysis of country/branch performance & management of improvements initiatives.
Work in conjunction with Sales to implement and measure business plan and trade’s policy.
Monitor performance and implementation of actions with countries.
Review, researching, and responding to emails and formal correspondence from the business unit, account owners, and customers.
Liaison with other areas, branches.