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As the Transportation Network Operations Analyst at Brooks, you will support North America transportation
strategies and operational execution related to our footwear and apparel sourcing. The focus of your role is
both analytical and operational in nature. You will rely on your analytical skills to understand business
problems, identify risks, trends, and opportunities, and make recommendations to reduce costs and
optimize transportation processes. You will support the development of new transportation capabilities
based on evolving provider services, technologies, or market conditions as needed. On the operational side,
you will manage the day-to-day procedures executed by our transportation providers, ensuring that orders
are delivered from factories to the North America distribution centers on time. You will play an active role
collaborating with other business functions in supporting supply chain initiatives within the organization.
Your overall goal in this role is to ensure operational execution successfully delivers against KPI targets by
leveraging analysis, collaboration, and process optimization.
Responsibilities:
- Execute and monitor daily transportation operations, ensuring product moves efficiently through the network and arrives on schedule.
- Serve as a point of contact for operational escalations, providing timely support to distribution centers, internal stakeholders, carriers, and logistics partners.
- Coordinate with carriers, distribution centers, and cross-functional teams to resolve shipment exceptions, manage transportation risks, and maintain continuity of operations.
- Monitor shipment activity, transportation provider performance, and exception reporting to proactively identify and resolve issues impacting service, delivery timelines, or data accuracy.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with transportation providers and logistics partners, acting as the company's representative for day-to-day operational execution.
- Develop and maintain operational metrics, dashboards, and reporting to provide visibility into transportation performance, lead times, service levels, and cost efficiency.
- Analyze transportation and supply chain data to identify trends, determine root causes of performance gaps, and suggest corrective actions that improve service and operational reliability.
- Identify and implement opportunities to optimize transportation performance, lead times, distribution flow, inventory velocity, vendor compliance, and freight costs.
- Partner across Supply Chain, Trade Compliance, Product, Planning, Distribution, Finance, IT, and external logistics providers to drive cross-functional process improvements and operational excellence.
- Support transportation sourcing, network optimization, and cost-reduction initiatives through data analysis, business case development, and project execution.
- Assist with transportation compliance efforts by supporting training, documentation, and adherence to transportation regulations, routing guides, and standard operating procedures.
- Support the implementation, enhancement, and ongoing maintenance of transportation and supply chain systems, including TMS, WMS, ERP, EDI, and carrier technology solutions.
- Support cross-functional transportation and supply chain projects, managing workstreams, coordinating stakeholders, and helping drive implementation of new processes and programs.
Work Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Logistics, Computer Science, Finance, or related field; equivalent combination of education and years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree(s)
- 1+ years of experience in analytics with a focus on international trade, logistics, or supply chain
- Experience working in Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
- Advanced knowledge of SQL preferred
- Experience building data visualizations (i.e., Tableau, Power BI, and/or other tools)
- Working knowledge of Incoterms and letter of credit
- Understanding and experience operating with Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) is a plus
- Proven ability to collect, clean, transform, and analyze data to generate actionable insights and drive informed business decisions
- Able to demonstrate strong understanding of international trade
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, Access, etc.)
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating effective listening through concise, clear verbal and written communication
- Excellent interpersonal skills that inspire and build trust resulting in effective working relationships across the company
- Keen attention to detail in planning, organization, and execution of tasks, while still seeing the big picture and understanding how all the pieces fit together and affect one another
- Ability to anticipate how a decision made can affect our customers, our partners, our products, or other departments’ operations and/or morale; “connecting the dots”
- Demonstration of innovation and initiative – always looking at improving our products and processes while also displaying a willingness to dive into the details and help wherever necessary
- Embraces and lives the Brooks values!
Benefits
Brooks is proud to offer a robust benefits package to our employees and their families!
- Benefits- including medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance, HSA and employer contribution, FSA, family & fertility assistance, 401K Savings Plan and match, employee assistance program, and transportation assistance.
- Paid Time Off- Brooks offers generous time off including five weeks of paid time off, eleven paid holidays, paid sick and parental leave.
- Bonus- in addition to base pay, Brooks employees may also be offered an annual bonus based on company performance.
- Perks- including product discounts, employee recognition, fitness discounts, volunteer and donation benefits.
- Location- You will spend 4 days per week in our Seattle offices, as we believe our organization flourishes when connections, collaboration, creativity, problem-solving, and celebrations happen in person.
Compensation: The pay range for this position, based out of the Brooks Seattle HQ, is $33.66 - $50.51 per hour. Base pay offered will vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
As the Transportation Network Operations Analyst at Brooks, you will support North America transportation
strategies and operational execution related to our footwear and apparel sourcing. The focus of your role is
both analytical and operational in nature. You will rely on your analytical skills to understand business
problems, identify risks, trends, and opportunities, and make recommendations to reduce costs and
optimize transportation processes. You will support the development of new transportation capabilities
based on evolving provider services, technologies, or market conditions as needed. On the operational side,
you will manage the day-to-day procedures executed by our transportation providers, ensuring that orders
are delivered from factories to the North America distribution centers on time. You will play an active role
collaborating with other business functions in supporting supply chain initiatives within the organization.
Your overall goal in this role is to ensure operational execution successfully delivers against KPI targets by
leveraging analysis, collaboration, and process optimization.
Responsibilities:
- Execute and monitor daily transportation operations, ensuring product moves efficiently through the network and arrives on schedule.
- Serve as a point of contact for operational escalations, providing timely support to distribution centers, internal stakeholders, carriers, and logistics partners.
- Coordinate with carriers, distribution centers, and cross-functional teams to resolve shipment exceptions, manage transportation risks, and maintain continuity of operations.
- Monitor shipment activity, transportation provider performance, and exception reporting to proactively identify and resolve issues impacting service, delivery timelines, or data accuracy.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with transportation providers and logistics partners, acting as the company's representative for day-to-day operational execution.
- Develop and maintain operational metrics, dashboards, and reporting to provide visibility into transportation performance, lead times, service levels, and cost efficiency.
- Analyze transportation and supply chain data to identify trends, determine root causes of performance gaps, and suggest corrective actions that improve service and operational reliability.
- Identify and implement opportunities to optimize transportation performance, lead times, distribution flow, inventory velocity, vendor compliance, and freight costs.
- Partner across Supply Chain, Trade Compliance, Product, Planning, Distribution, Finance, IT, and external logistics providers to drive cross-functional process improvements and operational excellence.
- Support transportation sourcing, network optimization, and cost-reduction initiatives through data analysis, business case development, and project execution.
- Assist with transportation compliance efforts by supporting training, documentation, and adherence to transportation regulations, routing guides, and standard operating procedures.
- Support the implementation, enhancement, and ongoing maintenance of transportation and supply chain systems, including TMS, WMS, ERP, EDI, and carrier technology solutions.
- Support cross-functional transportation and supply chain projects, managing workstreams, coordinating stakeholders, and helping drive implementation of new processes and programs.
Work Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Logistics, Computer Science, Finance, or related field; equivalent combination of education and years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree(s)
- 1+ years of experience in analytics with a focus on international trade, logistics, or supply chain
- Experience working in Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
- Advanced knowledge of SQL preferred
- Experience building data visualizations (i.e., Tableau, Power BI, and/or other tools)
- Working knowledge of Incoterms and letter of credit
- Understanding and experience operating with Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) is a plus
- Proven ability to collect, clean, transform, and analyze data to generate actionable insights and drive informed business decisions
- Able to demonstrate strong understanding of international trade
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, Access, etc.)
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating effective listening through concise, clear verbal and written communication
- Excellent interpersonal skills that inspire and build trust resulting in effective working relationships across the company
- Keen attention to detail in planning, organization, and execution of tasks, while still seeing the big picture and understanding how all the pieces fit together and affect one another
- Ability to anticipate how a decision made can affect our customers, our partners, our products, or other departments’ operations and/or morale; “connecting the dots”
- Demonstration of innovation and initiative – always looking at improving our products and processes while also displaying a willingness to dive into the details and help wherever necessary
- Embraces and lives the Brooks values!
Benefits
Brooks is proud to offer a robust benefits package to our employees and their families!
- Benefits- including medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance, HSA and employer contribution, FSA, family & fertility assistance, 401K Savings Plan and match, employee assistance program, and transportation assistance.
- Paid Time Off- Brooks offers generous time off including five weeks of paid time off, eleven paid holidays, paid sick and parental leave.
- Bonus- in addition to base pay, Brooks employees may also be offered an annual bonus based on company performance.
- Perks- including product discounts, employee recognition, fitness discounts, volunteer and donation benefits.
- Location- You will spend 4 days per week in our Seattle offices, as we believe our organization flourishes when connections, collaboration, creativity, problem-solving, and celebrations happen in person.
Compensation: The pay range for this position, based out of the Brooks Seattle HQ, is $33.66 - $50.51 per hour. Base pay offered will vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
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Who's Hiring
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in transportation analyst jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in transportation planning, civil engineering, logistics, or a related field
- Proficiency in GIS software such as ArcGIS or QGIS for spatial data analysis
- Experience with SQL or Python for querying and analyzing large transportation datasets
- Familiarity with traffic modeling software such as TransCAD, Cube, or VISSIM
- Ability to interpret freight, transit, or traffic count data and produce clear written recommendations
- Experience preparing technical reports or presentations for public agencies or executive stakeholders
Tips for Your Transportation Analyst Job Search
Tailor your resume to data tools
Transportation analyst job postings consistently ask for proficiency in tools like SQL, ArcGIS, Tableau, or Python. List the specific tools you've used and the analysis types they supported, not just the tool names alone.
Highlight modal and network experience
Employers distinguish between road, rail, air, and multimodal analysts. If your background is in one mode, name it explicitly on your resume so hiring managers can match you to the right opening without guessing.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists transportation analyst openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target agencies alongside private employers
Metropolitan planning organizations, state DOTs, and port authorities hire transportation analysts on different timelines than private firms. Check both sectors separately because government postings often close on hard deadlines that private roles don't enforce.
Prepare a case study for your interview
Interviewers for transportation analyst roles often ask you to walk through a past analysis end to end. Have one ready that shows your data source, methodology, and the operational recommendation that came out of it.
Negotiate using total compensation context
Government and consulting transportation analyst roles structure compensation differently. Public-sector offers often include pension contributions and compressed schedules, while consulting roles may add utilization bonuses. Understand what the full package includes before comparing offers.
Transportation Analyst Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most transportation analysts?
The companies hiring the most transportation analysts right now include Ryder System, Booz Allen Hamilton, and KBX, with the largest share of openings in Illinois, Texas, and Ohio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Consulting firms, logistics companies, and state transportation departments consistently represent the heaviest hiring activity.
How many transportation analyst jobs are remote?
About 57% of transportation analyst openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies by specialization. Demand forecasting, supply chain modeling, and policy analysis roles are more likely to be remote than positions that require on-site traffic counts, field surveys, or coordination with physical infrastructure teams.
How do you become a transportation analyst?
Start with a bachelor's degree in transportation planning, civil engineering, urban planning, logistics, or a quantitative field. Build hands-on skills in GIS, data analysis tools, and traffic or freight modeling software through coursework or internships. Entry-level roles at consulting firms or public agencies are the most common starting points, and many analysts move into specializations like network optimization or policy analysis after a few years on the job.
Can you get a transportation analyst job with little experience?
Yes, entry-level transportation analyst roles exist specifically for candidates with limited professional experience. Internships with metropolitan planning organizations, state departments of transportation, or logistics companies carry significant weight. Building a portfolio of class projects or independent analyses using publicly available traffic, transit, or freight data can demonstrate your technical skills to hiring managers when your work history is thin.
What does the transportation analyst interview process look like?
Most transportation analyst interviews follow a two-to-three stage process. An initial screening call covers your background and tool proficiency. A technical interview or take-home exercise typically asks you to work through a dataset, interpret traffic counts, or evaluate a routing problem. Final rounds often include a presentation to a panel where you walk through your analysis approach and defend your recommendations.
Where can I find and apply to transportation analyst jobs?
You can find and apply to transportation analyst jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your background and preferences, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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