Global Containerized Ocean Freight Analyst

Introduction

Move the world with us! AIT is a global freight forwarding and logistics company headquartered in Chicago. Are you looking for an exciting and varied job? Then you are exactly right for us! Become part of the international supply chain and move the world with us! Does that sound interesting? Then make AIT Worldwide Logistics the next stop on your career ladder!

The Global Containerized Ocean Freight Analyst supports the global ocean team with performance reporting, executive-ready PowerPoint slide decks, leadership insights, and cross-functional ocean freight projects. The role translates containerized ocean data into clear recommendations that improve visibility, service, cost, profitability, and decision-making across the global network. A minimum of 5 years of ocean freight experience is required, together with a strong interest in applying AI responsibly to reporting, analysis, and process improvement.

• Own the monthly and quarterly global containerized ocean performance reporting pack, including TEU volumes, revenue and margin, buy/sell rate performance, service quality, schedule reliability, budget variance, and forecast indicators.
• Design, maintain, and improve Power BI and Excel dashboards; reconcile inputs from Cargo Wise, carrier and market sources, regional teams, and finance; document KPI definitions, data lineage, and data-quality controls.
• Prepare executive-ready PowerPoint slide decks and leadership readouts that convert complex ocean freight data into clear trends, risks, opportunities, recommendations, and actions.
• Deliver ad hoc analysis on trade lanes, ports, carriers, equipment, capacity, blank sailings, rates, demurrage and detention, customer or vertical performance, and other ocean freight topics as requested by leadership.
• Support global ocean projects, including business cases, network and operating-model changes, carrier scorecards, procurement and RFQ/tender analysis, standardization, process improvement, and implementation tracking.
• Facilitate monthly and quarterly performance reviews with regional and cross-functional stakeholders; surface root causes, agree corrective actions, maintain decision and action logs, and follow through to closure.
• Identify and implement safe, practical AI use cases for ocean reporting and analysis, such as natural-language KPI summaries, anomaly detection, data classification, scenario analysis, and presentation drafting, with human validation, privacy controls, and clear accountability for final outputs.
• Other duties, responsibilities, and special projects will be assigned as business demands deem necessary.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, logistics, business, analytics, or related field; equivalent experience considered
• Relevant training in supply chain, analytics, project management, data visualization, or AI preferred

Experience Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional containerized ocean freight experience required
• Global ocean reporting, pricing/procurement, carrier management, BI, project delivery, or process improvement preferred
• Experience working across regions and time zones; ocean carrier/NVOCC/forwarder operations, procurement, pricing, tender/RFQ, reporting, data governance, and executive communications
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in containerized ocean freight, international ocean forwarding, NVOCC, ocean carrier, ocean procurement, ocean pricing, or ocean operations required; experience in a global or multi-region role strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and data visualization; working knowledge of SQL, Cargo Wise, and AI productivity/automation tools preferred
• Strong interest and…