Company Description
Expeditors is a Fortune 500 logistics company with a global network offering a broad range of supply chain services including air, ocean, ground transportation, customs brokerage, distribution, cargo insurance, and consulting. Expeditors hires the best in the industry. Our financial results are a direct result of its people and unique culture.
Scope of Position:
As a member of the Global Business Operations team, you will be contributing to the relentless pursuit of operational excellence through quality data and automation. Using large real-time data sets, you will help us identify opportunities to reduce operational waste. Through leveraging your Python/R/SQL development talents, you will take action by working with the team to automate manual tasks yielding real results.
Job Description
Scope of Position:
As a member of the IS team, you will be contributing to the relentless pursuit of operational excellence through quality data and automation. Using large real-time data sets, you will help us identify opportunities to reduce operational waste. Through leveraging your Python, SQL development talents & statistical modeling, you will take action by working with the team to yielding real data based results.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Transform, clean, and enhance data for use in analytic solutions
Analyze data and/or observe process execution to identify opportunities to bring consistency or automation to our operations
Visualize data to communicate the current operational state as well as the predicted outcome of a data solution
Leverage technical abilities to develop production code for automation scripts and data processes
Develop documentation and presentations to drive business awareness
Collaborate with the team on data architecture and best practices
Share talents and knowledge within the organization to create an environment of continuous learning
Qualifications
Degree computer science, engineering with working experience in an analytics / data / engineering role.
Strong knowledge of statistical or data science methods to deliver insights
Develop & maintain algorithms to drive business decisions
Strong in Python and SQL (MySQL/ Postgres / Oracle) (5+ Years of hands on experience)
Fluency in SQL with knowledge of database manipulation and maintenance.
Confident ability to automate data transformation using Python
Experience with Pandas, Numpy, and Anaconda preferred
Strong data / root cause analysis: Experience analyzing business problems, proposing and building a solutions
Ability to analyze data for patterns to optimize automated logic
Experience with predictive models and approaching forecasting outcomes
Experience with sound statistical / mathematical practices when analyzing and developing models
Ability to create automated monitoring of models
Experience in data visualization to communicate current state / results (Microsoft PowerBI experience preferred)
Ability to self-solve problems through creative research and investigation
Preferred Education/Experience
Understanding of Agile/SAFe Framework
Working knowledge of the freight, logistics, or transportation industry
Ocean and air data environment experience a big plus
Additional Information
Benefits
Paid Vacation, Holiday, Sick Time
Health Plan: Medical Insurance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
