What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Analyst position at Ardagh Group?
Role description:
The Transportation Analyst has responsibilities for providing analysis and insight in managing transportation and warehouse functions and relationships by developing and producing performance metrics for use in managing Ardagh Glass Packaging – North America (AGP-NA) business. This includes identifying trends, formulating, and presenting cost savings opportunities to transportation leadership.
Responsibilities:
Provide operational and analytical support to carriers, warehouses, plants, and other departments as needed
Serve as a subject matter expert in the use of AGP-NA technology to manage transportation
Manage Transportation Management System (TMS) to track loads
Utilize PowerBI dashboards and other systems to manage transportation service and spending, while also researching, developing, and utilizing analytic software and mathematical models to aid in analyzing business data
Identify and solve logistical problems and assist management in making data-focused decisions in the areas of logistics forecasting, vendor performance, logistics performance, and logistics strategy
Develop cost/benefit models to support logistics projects and to track and analyze vendor cost performance to projected benefits
Build spreadsheet models to identify choices, formalize trade-offs, specify constraints, and track and analyze the impact of performance expectations on budgeted expectations
Collect appropriate data from internal and external sources
Extract large-scale data from multiple data tables and data warehouses and combine data into one format for consistent analysis across business units
Query data from organization databases to monitor manufacturing capacity, lead time, and other operational data that could affect logistics performance, analysis, and reporting
Use Pivot Tables, SQL, VB Macros, and other statistical modelling functions and formulas for data cleaning, reformatting, and data modelling
Process mapping of workflows, departmental relationships, and change impacts between these functions
Acquire, validate, store, protect, and process required data
Identify through analysis cost savings opportunities, efficiency improvements, and shipper-of-choice offerings including drop trailer programs, dock scheduling tools, optimal loading hours, etc.
Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in various logistics systems and be able to support systems, train new users, ideate new reports/functionality, work with vendors to develop and implement such improvements, and train system users on new capabilities
Develop and publish training documents and processes for various systems in use at AGP-NA and conduct training classes for peers, plant employees, and vendor employees
Minimum skills / qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in logistics, supply chain management, business administration, or a related field
Two (2) years of logistics and transportation experience
Two (2) years of experience analyzing freight
Knowledge of various transportation management systems and related tools
Excellent communication and customer service skills
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
Ability to travel up to 10%
Preferred skills / qualifications:
Previous experience using Power BI or a similar data visualization tool
Previous experience using SAP
- Medical, prescription, dental and vision plans
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Life insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match and an employer retirement contribution
- Paid holidays, floating days and vacation
- Short- and Long-Term Disability (STD/LTD)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Professional and personal development opportunities through Employee Resource Groups
- Benefits available from day 1 of employment
- Flexible and hybrid working hours
Please note the compensation and benefits information above is accurate as of the date of this posting. Ardagh reserves the right to modify this information at any time in accordance with applicable law.
About Ardagh Group
Ardagh Glass Packaging is a global leader in glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for the world’s leading brands. We trace our roots all the way back to the Irish Glass Bottle Company, founded in 1932. Since then, we have grown rapidly to a team of more than 20,000 people with revenues of over $9 billion.
Today, we have a presence across Europe, Africa, and North America.
- Did you know that Ardagh produces many of the cans and bottles you drink your favorite beverages from?
- Did you know we produce metal and glass packaging which are permanent materials, meaning they can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality?
- Did you know we produce more than 160 million containers per day?
Ardagh Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, and local law.
Ardagh Group complies with federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. Contact Clare McHugh (clare.mchugh@ardaghgroup.com) if a reasonable accommodation is needed.