Network Optimization Analyst

Position summary

Network data and route governance

• Maintain customer assignments, route codes, delivery days, route descriptions, route structures, and transportation master data.
• Validate network change requests and ensure accurate, documented, communicated, timely updates.
• Correct configuration issues affecting service, dock flow, warehouse staging, routing, or operations.

Analytics, planning, and implementation

• Support route optimization, network modeling, fleet-capacity analysis, mapping, and operational scenarios.
• Analyze delivery-day adherence, route utilization and density, demand, service, capacity, cost, and fleet performance.
• Validate transportation data across SAP TM, reporting platforms, trackers, and source systems; resolve discrepancies.
• Support implementation of approved route, delivery-frequency, customer-assignment, and configuration changes.
• Develop holiday, inventory, and recovery schedules and alternate delivery-day recommendations; conduct post-event reviews.
• Participate in system testing, training, change management, and transportation tool and process deployment.

Reporting and cross-functional support

• Build and maintain Tableau dashboards, scorecards, and reports for operational and executive KPI monitoring.
• Develop Tableau Prep flows, calculated fields, transformations, joins, unions, and scheduled refreshes.
• Validate dashboards against SAP TM and other sources and resolve data, refresh, calculation, and reporting issues.
• Translate model outputs and operational findings into recommendations and implementation actions.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, logistics, business, engineering, analytics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience in transportation, routing, fleet operations, logistics analytics, supply chain operations, or network optimization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including pattern identification, root-cause analysis, and translating data into action.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and presentation tools; experience with dashboards, data preparation, or business intelligence tools.
• Ability to manage priorities, maintain data accuracy, document work, and communicate with operational and leadership audiences.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with SAP Transportation Management or comparable transportation and routing systems.
• Hands-on Tableau and Tableau Prep experience, including dashboard and data-flow development, calculated fields, joins, validation, and scheduled refreshes.
• SQL, Python, Power BI, Alteryx, Coupa, or GIS experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of route optimization, final-mile delivery, fleet utilization, delivery scheduling, distribution-center processes, and transportation KPIs.
• Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, ISO, or related quality and process-improvement practices.