Full job descriptionJob Title: Data Analyst (Solutions)
Location: Normanton, Wakefield
Salary: £45,000 base + benefits
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Loom Talent is exclusively partnering with a leading UK transport, warehousing and distribution business to recruit a Data Analyst into their Solutions team, based at their Normanton site.
The Solutions team designs the operational and commercial answer to new customer opportunities, taking a prospect’s data, working out how their freight should be moved and stored and costing it.


What you’ll be doing:
*Profiling data received from customers and prospects: cleaning it, understanding volumes, flows and service requirement and turning it into a clear picture for the team
*Supporting the Solutions team through the early stages of each opportunity, including data profiling and gaining commercial and operational sign-off
*Working alongside the Head of Solutions Design on new business opportunities and smaller projects
*Building the skills to design solutions and present them to the operational and commercial teams


What we’re looking for:
*Strong Excel skills, comfortable working with large datasets, formulas, lookups and pivot tables
*A background in transport or warehousing, for example transport coordination, planning or supervision, or a warehouse role
*A basic understanding of transport operations, such as vehicle and trailer types and how loads are moved
*Experience using a warehouse management system (WMS) or managing operational data in Excel
*Curious, analytical and keen to learn, with a real interest in moving into solutions design


Desirable:
*A degree or technical background (e.g. maths, data, engineering, supply chain or logistics)
*Experience of Paragon or another routing/planning system
*Exposure to costing, pricing or commercial analysis in logistics


As the exclusive partner on this search, all applications come directly to us. To apply, or for a confidential conversation about the role, contact Kieran Hayes at Loom Talent, .