Analyst, Transportation Logistics

Mark Anthony Group
Chicago, IL

Accountabilities:

  • Continuously explore ways and identify opportunities to reduce freight costs
  • Continuously plan analyze and optimize transportation network
  • Build plan and route loads in TMS
  • Manage appointment scheduling requirements relative to delivery plan to optimize highest levels of service at lowest landed cost
  • Track execution of loads against relevant milestones to identify delays risks in transit and keep relevant stakeholders informed with updates
  • Proactively interact with carriers to ensure unimpeded transportation process to minimize delays of deliverables (i.e. actual arrival and departure times PODs etc.)
  • Act as liaison between Customer Supply Chain Fulfillment and carriers

Key Metrics & Financial Targets:

  • Carrier KPIs on-time performance tender acceptance routing guide compliance
  • COGS

Own:

  • Execution of order lifecycle planning to delivery
  • Carrier selection in spot market workflow

Influence:

  • Carrier network decisions based on performance needs
  • Able to advise as a transportation team SME for business

Critical Stakeholders and Relationships:

  • Internal Customer Supply Chain Planners Fulfillment Warehouses
  • External Partner carriers TMS provider distributors copackers

Qualifications Education and Experience:

  • Bachelors degree in business supply chain or relevant field
  • 2-3 years progressive experience in logistics transportation or warehouse operations
  • Experience working with TMS platforms required

Skills Needed to be Successful:

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills attention to detail
  • Problem solving multi-tasking and prioritization sense of urgency
  • Attention to detail excellent verbal and written communication skills problem solving multi-tasking and prioritization

What You Will Learn in this Role:

  • Cross-functional collaboration with greater Logistics team and impact to business
  • Impact of carrier relationships and long-term partnerships

This role follows a hybrid work model requiring on-site presence in the office at least four days per week to support collaboration and team engagement.

At Mark Anthony we exist to Unearth the Extraordinary:

Our Purpose is not just a statement; it is a call to action that binds us together and ignites our passion for making a difference. It is the driving force behind why we do what we do every single day connecting our global organization across all business units roles and locations. We are:

Best in Our Craft
We set the standard with a pursuit of excellence that can be found in everything from our products and processes to our plants and people.â

Ambitiously Curious
We stay curious dreaming big and navigating the unknown with an enduring belief in better.ââ

Made With Humility
We bring humility authenticity fun and support to every collaboration and celebrate wins as a team.

Daringly Disruptive
We disrupt the status quo moving fast to seize opportunities and acting scrappyâto stay ahead of industry giants.â

Required Experience:

IC

Posted 2025-11-21

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