Supply Chain Data Analyst

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Date: Sep 4, 2025

Location: Lake Zurich, IL, US, 60047

Company: accobrands

 

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Job Summary

The Supply Chain Data Analyst plays a critical role in optimizing supply chain operations by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to support decision-making. 

Responsibilities

  

  • Analyze transportation and supply chain data to identify trends, variances, and improvement opportunities related to cost, service, and efficiency.
  • Develop and maintain transportation-focused dashboards and performance scorecards using Tableau or similar visualization tools.
  • Support cost-benefit analyses comparing prepaid vs. collect freight terms across various business units and customer segments.
  • Conduct carrier performance evaluations using shipment-level data to assess service levels, freight spend, and delivery trends.
  • Investigate shipping patterns across customers to uncover anomalies, inefficiencies, or mode optimization opportunities.
  • Collaborate with IT and business users to define reporting requirements, participate in UAT (User Acceptance Testing), and help implement new analytical reports.
  • Assist in the development and tracking of transportation KPIs, benchmarks, and quarterly business reviews.
  • Prepare analytical summaries and recommendations to support strategic initiatives, budget reviews, and carrier negotiations.
  • Maintain documentation for datasets, definitions, and recurring reports to ensure data integrity and repeatability.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Data Science, Supply Chain, or a related quantitative field.
  • Experience in Python, R, SQL, Alteryx & Excel for data analysis, data cleaning, and visualization
  • Strong understanding of machine learning techniques including classification, clustering, regression, and model evaluation.
  • Experience with SQL, relational databases, and data modeling (dimensional modeling, ETL processes, OLAP).
  • Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI to build interactive dashboards and reports.
  • Ability to analyze large datasets, uncover trends, and derive actionable insights in areas such as transportation or carrier performance.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical insights to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Detail-oriented, highly organized, and capable of working on multiple projects simultaneously.

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Information Technology, Industrial Engineering or a related field.
  • 2-3 years of experience in key functional areas: supply chain management, logistics, decision support, transportation management, distribution or procurement functional responsibilities
  • SAP BW Hana preferred
  • Knowledge and experience with Transportation Management Systems, SAP preferred
  • Strong knowledge and understanding of supply chain, transportation, inventory and warehousing concepts, methods & modes
  • Experience collecting and analyzing data for modeling, network optimization and/or transportation redesign purposes

 

About Us:

You know our brands. You love our brands. You just may not know they are ours.

If you have touched a PowerA® gaming controller, a Five Star® notebook, a Swingline® stapler, a Quartet® dry erase board, or a Kensington® computer mouse, you have touched part of ACCO Brands Corporation. With annual revenues of over $1.7 Billion, ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO) designs, markets, manufactures and sells branded academic, consumer and business products globally. The power of our brands, our unmatched global customer reach, and our strategic market strengths put us in a position to achieve global leadership and growth. We're proud of our long history of industry leadership and innovation and are focused on delivering exceptional value to our customers by providing unique, cutting-edge, branded products.

Apply now and build a successful future with ACCO Brands.

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More information about ACCO Brands, the Home of Great Brands Built by Great People, can be found at www.accobrands.com.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer

At ACCO Brands, we are committed to providing an environment of fairness and mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical and mental disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. ACCO Brands believes that a diverse and inclusive work environment is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

 

AODA

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities will be provided in all parts of the recruiting process as required under the ACCO Brands Canada AODA policy.  Applicants are asked to make their needs known in advance.


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