Business Analyst, Operations

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NEXT Trucking is a venture-backed company boldly taking on the challenge of digitizing the $800B freight trucking industry. Our technology is transforming the way shippers and truckers engage and communicate by creating a platform where shippers can instantly find truckers with capacity and have real time tracking updates and transparency with the movement of their freight throughout the entire shipping process. 

NEXT was founded by Lidia Yan and Elton Chung with over 20+ years of experience in logistics and technology. We have raised a total of $125M from investors like Sequoia and Brookfield. We have assembled a team with experience from companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, CH Robinson, Google, Salesforce, Snap, and Uber. Come join us as we innovate the transportation industry.

As the Business Analyst, Operations, you will be creating transparency to the organization by providing modeling, easily accessible data, and actionable insights from a variety of operational data sources. Your experience in processing data and creating proper methods for analyzing and preparing data for decision making will allow you to guide planning and decision making at the operational and organizational level. Dashboards that you create will be used by the entire organization to understand and drive successful outcomes.

What You'll Do

  • Create models for operational planning, including capacity and investments
  • Create dashboards that will allow operations main-case and exception management
  • Partner with FP&A on actuals analysis, financial planning and growth strategies
  • Collaborate with finance on planning activities
  • Create the framework for data consumption by a wide variety of staff and executives
  • Create business cases, ROI calculations, and SWOT analysis
  • Help guide KPI creation, target setting, and measuring
  • Create, document, and share best practices

What You'll Need to Have

  • 2+ years hands-on experience in planning, including capacity and investments, preferably in an operational setting
  • Expertise in creating dashboards and data visualization using Tableau, Chartio or similar tool
  • Financial and/or operations modeling
  • Comfortable working in Google Drive / Docs / Sheets
  • Expert-level MS Excel skills
  • Early-stage start-up / tech company experience
  • Demonstrated ability to perform with grace under pressure
  • Multi-tasking skills in a fast-moving and changing environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communications
  • Bachelor’s Degree

What You'll Receive

  • Competitive Salary + Bonus + Equity
  • Full medical, dental and vision benefits 401k w/ company match
  • Explosive Career Growth
  • Vacation & Company Holidays 
  • Dog Friendly Office

NEXT is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by emailing [email protected].

To all recruitment agencies: NEXT does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, NEXT employees or any other organization location. NEXT is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. 

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Our HQ is located in the heart of Silicon Beach with amenities like an outdoor patio, an on-site gym, and cold brew coffee & kombucha on tap.

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