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Job Description: Operations Analyst
Monday to Friday 0800-1700
40 hours a week
Based at Polar Speed Distribution Ltd, 7 Chartmoor Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 4WG
Key Responsibilities
- Working within the Polar Speed department, you will be responsible for analysing and interpreting data and providing logistics information to aid cost effective, efficient, timely, and high-quality logistics solutions for Polar Speed.
- Working closely with the key stakeholders in the business to support modelling and client implementation activities.
- Undertake detailed and thorough logistics analysis and identify opportunities to aid efficiency and cost optimization through evaluation of data, including scenario planning.
- Collation of data from across the business, ensuring reliability, integrity, and accuracy of data.
- Ensure analysis is in line with business goals and targets.
- Create statistical and financial models and use appropriate software to review opportunities for cost savings and efficiencies in the logistics process, such as improvement of stops per vehicle and hour.
- Make recommendations based on findings and analysis.
- Ensure logistics costs are monitored and reported.
- Collaborate with line manager or stakeholders to determine effective solutions.
- Participate in regular planning reviews and change processes and prepare data in line with changes.
- Set up and provide regular reports and data relating to specific areas of the logistics process such as route planning statistics and associated costs.
- Track logistics trends and use information to recommend changes.
- Utilise knowledge and research methods to benchmark logistics activities and to drive best practice results.
- Report against key performance indicators.
- Work towards and support a culture of continuous improvement and work to make business and department improvements wherever possible.
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