Associate Analyst, Linehaul Analytics - Hybrid

What you’ll need to succeed as an Associate Analyst, Linehaul Analytics at XPO

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work or military experience
• Strong Python skills, including experience with pandas or similar data analysis libraries.
• Experience working with structured data, large datasets, and data-quality validation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to reason through complex operational systems and identify non-obvious relationships.
• Ability to investigate anomalies, validate assumptions, and explain findings using data, logic, and reproducible analysis.
• Comfort working with metrics, dashboards, reports, validation scripts, and operational data workflows.
• Ability to break down ambiguous business or operational problems into clear analytical steps.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Data Analytics, Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics, Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field; or 2+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience with SQL and relational data concepts.
• Experience building dashboards, monitoring tools, or recurring analytical reports.
• Experience with logistics, transportation, supply chain, routing, linehaul, network planning, or operations analytics.
• Experience validating optimization models, simulation outputs, or decision-support systems.
• Experience with Python-based analytics, automation, or test frameworks.
• Familiarity with C++ or another high-performance language for speeding up data-intensive tools or simulators.
• Experience identifying root causes in complex systems with multiple interacting factors.
• Exposure to service center operations, shipment consolidation, shipment diversion, routing networks, or capacity planning.
• Experience creating new metrics or tools from scratch when existing reporting is insufficient.

About the Associate Analyst, Linehaul Analytics 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:

• Help improve model reliability by designing and maintaining analytical test cases, validation scripts, and metric checks for optimization workflows, simulators, and operational decision-support tools.
• In the first year, you will primarily focus on testing, validating, and analyzing existing linehaul optimization models and simulator outputs. This will serve as a ramp-up period to learn the internals of the models, data, network behavior, and operational constraints.
• Over time, you will expand into building analytical tools, dashboards, early-warning systems, network path assessments, simulator improvements, and performance metrics that help the team better understand and improve linehaul optimization outcomes
• Build and maintain analytical tools, dashboards, and monitoring metrics that provide visibility into optimization model performance, linehaul network health, shipment flow, service center volume, consolidation opportunities, and shipment diversions.
• Analyze linehaul optimization model outputs, operational data, and network behavior to identify data-quality issues, inconsistencies, anomalies, and performance gaps using Python, pandas, SQL, and traditional data analytics tools.
• Support development of internal tools used to evaluate linehaul paths, routing behavior, simulator results, and operational tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with optimization modelers, engineers, and operations stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into clear analyses, reliable metrics, and actionable insights.
• Investigate complex operational issues across shipment patterns, routing decisions, network constraints, and service center capacity to determine root causes and recommend practical improvements.
• Communicate findings clearly through written analysis, root-cause investigation, metrics, dashboards, and actionable recommendations

Annual Salary Range: $70,889 to $88,611 Actual compensation may vary due to factors such as experience and skill set. This is an incentive-based position, which may include bonuses, incentive or commission plans.

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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