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Job Title: Global Supply Chain Analyst - Inbound Freight
Job Type: Contract - W2 (Duration: 12 months)
Location: Maplewood, MN - Hybrid (3-4 days onsite)
Schedule: M - F 8am to 5pm
Pay Rate: $25 - 34 / hour, DOE
Position Overview:
The Global Logistics Inbound Freight Analyst is responsible for managing inbound freight data, analyzing costs, and providing visibility into global transportation spending. This role builds and maintains reporting tools, partners with finance to ensure accurate cost allocation, and works with regional logistics teams to improve compliance, detect cost anomalies, and support better financial decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Collect, validate, and integrate inbound freight data from multiple sources (ERP, TMS, carrier invoices, audits, regional reports).
- Partner with finance to define freight accruals, GL coding, landed cost allocation, and ensure accurate mapping into COGS/expenses.
- Build and manage Power BI dashboards to track freight spend, costs by region/carrier, and freight-to-revenue ratios.
- Monitor and flag anomalies such as overbilling, non-compliant bookings, and unexpected surcharges.
- Standardize global tax/duties structures and supplier compliance practices.
- Provide training and guidance to finance, procurement, and logistics teams on freight cost visibility.
- Document processes, assumptions, and pricing logic for consistency and governance.
- Integrate inbound freight insights into broader logistics performance tools (e.g., carrier scorecards, savings trackers).
- Consolidating fragmented global freight data into a unified view.
- Aligning regional billing, taxes, and cost structures.
- Detecting cost issues before invoices are received.
- Driving adoption of reporting tools across global teams.
- Continuously improving dashboards and alerts for both finance and logistics users.
Key Metrics
- Global inbound freight spend (base and accessorial costs).
- Detention & demurrage (D&D) and other accessorial costs.
- Consolidation center spend tracking.
- Transportation productivity and cost efficiency.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in logistics cost management, transportation finance, or supply chain analytics.
- Experience in freight spend analysis, cost accruals, and freight flow into COGS/P&L.
- Strong knowledge of logistics code mapping, accruals, landed cost allocation, and COGS mechanics.
- Hands-on experience with Power BI, Excel, and building financial dashboards.
- Familiarity with SAP, ERP, TMS, WMS, invoicing, or audit platforms.
- Experience with SQL, DAX, or similar for data manipulation.
- Knowledge of Power Apps/Power Automate for workflow automation.
- Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Pride Global offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.
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