Global Logistics Analyst

A typical week often involves data analysis, carrier and 3PL performance review, and the steady cadence of cross-functional coordination — pulling lane-cost and on-time-delivery data, building scenarios for sourcing or routing changes, sitting with trade-compliance and transportation teams, prepping executive dashboards. You're often the analytical layer that turns shipment data into operating decisions. Cost per unit and on-time international delivery anchor the view.

Friction tends to come from the data fragmentation across carriers, brokers, and ERPs — international logistics generates data in many systems and formats, and clean comparisons take work. Variance across employers is sharp: at large multinationals you'll have TMS and BI infrastructure; at mid-market shippers the analytical work runs through Excel and direct carrier reports.

It fits people who are analytically rigorous, supply-chain-fluent, and patient with messy international data. APICS CSCP and global trade credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is time-zone overhead — global supply chains operate around the clock, and meetings often run early or late to accommodate origin offices.