What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Collaborate with leadership to understand needs and align those with potential data and analytics projects


• Gather and integrate data from various sources for use in advanced analytics efforts


• Identify, analyze and interpret trends, patterns and relationships in complex data sets, using advanced analytics tools and models


• Prepare findings in a professional manner, presenting insightful results and providing actionable recommendations to leadership


• Promote a data-driven culture through ongoing partnership and dialog with the business stakeholders

What you need to succeed at XPO:

At a minimum, you’ll have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Economics, Physics or another analytics-related field, or equivalent related work or military experience


• 2 years of experience in quantitative analytics


• Hands-on experience with the core concepts of pricing, revenue management and supply chain management


• Strong knowledge of statistics; experience using statistical modeling (logistic regression, SVMs, etc.) to solve business problems


• Demonstrated experience with database design, data models and integration/extraction technologies


• Great interpersonal and communication skills backed by a can-do attitude and entrepreneurial mindset


• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate information with attention to detail and accuracy

It’d be great if you also have:

• Knowledge of statistical modeling techniques, including linear/logistic regression (advanced predictor selection techniques), classification (decision trees, random forests), Support Vector Machines (SVMs), neural networks, etc.

• Advanced degree in Data Science or another analytics-related field


• Hands-on experience with Python, R, CPLEX, SQL and VBA as well as one of Power BI, Tableau or Oracle BI


• 5 years of experience in quantitative analytics


• Successful stakeholder engagement with quantifiable financial impact on operational performance


• Experience with text analytics (semantic analysis)


• Transportation/Logistics, Travel, Hospitality industry experience