We are industry veterans and data-scientists using innovative technology to fearlessly reinvent the future of freight. As the ‘nerds of logistics’, we seek intelligence in data to solve deep rooted inefficiencies in the industry. We give shippers, brokers and carriers access to our data connections that link supply and demand and a suite of award-winning solutions to strike the perfect balance of cost and service. We’re creating a more efficient and environmentally responsible way to move more with less.

Loadsmart was founded in New York and is currently headquartered in Chicago, IL. Our teams operate remotely from different parts of the United States as well as in several locations across Latin America.

You believe in game-changing innovations and are excited about reimaging a 700 billion dollar industry. You are an analytical person with a solid understanding of business and the impact that analysis plays in a company's growth. 

We are looking for an entry-level Business Data / BI Analyst to join our BI Team, working remotely from Lat-Am. You will partner with leaders across the business to create, conceptualize, design and produce data solutions/analyses/studies/insights that will have a direct impact on Loadsmart’s decision making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand business requirements that need to be solved using data.
• Translate the business requirements into data solutions (e.g.: metrics, KPIs, entities, relationships, models, statistical analysis, analytics, data science, etc). Develop the solution and/or interface with Data Engineers as appropriate to ensure and follow up on the correctness of the data solution.
• Ensure alignment of all stakeholders on metrics, definitions, documentation, relationships, numbers behavior, terminology.
• Conduct the analyses/studies/insights and share with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Design and build customized BI reports and data visualizations along with data refresh schedules using Power BI or similar platforms, using the correct measures and calculations.
• Provide support for self-service BI for stakeholders.
• Configure BI dashboards and KPI’s that assist in obtaining important insights from our data and help internal teams drive key business decisions to improve performance and operate more efficiently.
• Perform quality assurance for all data across the company through troubleshooting end user issues.

Qualifications:

• You’re advanced in English (both written and spoken).
• Minimum 2 years experience in a business analyst or similar role.
• Minimum 2 years experience working with SQL, data analysis, including data profiling, building customized views, writing SQL queries.
• Experience in BI projects converting business needs into reporting requirements and data solutions.
• Experience working with Power BI or similar platforms.
• Ability to make right visualization choices, use of data blending features, connect to several DB technologies.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Stay up to date on new and coming visualization technologies.
• Ability to develop new metrics in Power BI.

Preferred but not required:

• Perform statistical analyses.
• Develop predictive, prescriptive models, machine learning models for BI.
• Understand and know how to apply design and user experience principles to dashboards and visualizations.
• Have experience with storytelling with data.
• Understanding DW data models and ability to develop them in Power BI.
• Ability to develop backend data engineering solutions using SQL and/or Python.

What you will find here:

• Generous Stock Option Plan
• Competitive Compensation
• Building a Rapidly-Growing Tech Company
• International Environment / Career
• Ability to Work with Cutting-Edge Technology
• Access to an Online Learning Platform

We are an international company, so only accept resumes in English.

At Loadsmart, we believe our biggest asset is our people. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. Loadsmart treats all candidates and employees with respect and does not discriminate in our recruiting, hiring, and promoting processes, including on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, national origin, veteran status, or disability.