At a shipper, carrier, broker, or 3PL, you handle the senior layer of freight analytics — leading complex analytical projects, supporting major procurement events, mentoring junior analysts, and the senior analytical work behind freight strategy.
Days are a mix of complex analytical projects, procurement-event support, and team mentoring — leading lane-level and network-level analyses, supporting major RFP cycles with cost modeling, mentoring junior analysts on technical methods, sitting with operational and commercial leadership on freight-strategy questions. Analytical impact, procurement-event outcomes, and team capability shape the visible measures.
The friction often lies in the data-quality challenges that don't fully resolve — transportation data lives across many systems, and senior analysts carry the discipline of building defensible analysis from imperfect data. Variance across employers is sharp: large shippers run with mature freight-analytics teams; 3PLs and carriers run with different analytical roles and data access.
This work tends to fit folks who enjoy deep data work, carry comfort with transportation economics, and have patience for the data-quality challenges. CSCMP, transportation-analytics credentials, and growing senior data-tooling experience anchor advancement. The trade-off is the cycle-time pressure around procurement events and the cumulative complexity of carrying senior analytical responsibility.
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View all Admin & Office roles →At a shipper, carrier, broker, or 3PL, you handle the senior layer of freight analytics — leading complex analytical projects, supporting major procurement events, mentoring junior analysts, and the senior analytical work behind freight strategy.
Median pay for a Senior Freight Analyst is about $50K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $37K to $76K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Coordination, Reading Comprehension, Monitoring, Critical Thinking, and Active Listening.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 8.5% through 2034, with roughly 97,800 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Freight Analyst, Export Clerk, and Cargo Agent.
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