The Freight Analyst plays a critical role in providing high-quality data, reporting, and insights across all Freight activities. This role supports informed decision-making by ensuring freight data is accurate, timely, and actionable.

Responsibilities

• Validate, clean, and maintain data received from freight forwarders to ensure accuracy and consistency
• Own and maintain existing freight reports, continuously improving them to deliver clear, reliable insights to stakeholders
• Develop new reporting and analytical outputs in response to evolving business needs
• Respond to ad-hoc data analysis requests from stakeholders across Supply Chain, Finance, and Operations
• Produce freight spend forecasts to support annual budgeting and financial planning processes
• Investigate freight data to identify optimisation opportunities, cost-saving initiatives, and operational efficiencies
• Present findings and recommendations to the wider Freight Management team
• Partner with Tech and Transformation teams to identify opportunities for automation, system integration, and process efficiency

What success looks like in this role

• Freight data is trusted, accurate, and consistently used to inform decisions
• Reporting evolves beyond manual spreadsheets toward scalable, automated solutions
• Stakeholders receive timely insights that highlight risks, opportunities, and cost drivers
• Inefficiencies in freight reporting and data processes are identified, challenged, and improved

Who you will work with

Reports to the Senior Analyst.

About you

Required Skills & Capabilities

• Proven experience in basic to intermediate data analysis within a commercial or operational environment
• Strong experience building dashboards and reports in Microsoft Excel, capable of presenting large data sets clearly and concisely
• Advanced Excel expertise, including Power Query and the Excel Data Model
• Strong analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach and a focus on finding the most effective solution
• Real-world understanding of freight and supply chain metrics, with the ability to interpret numbers in context and understand the downstream operational and financial impact of decisions
• Clear understanding of the impact of data quality on reporting and decision-making, and the ability to resolve or mitigate data issues using appropriate tools
• Confident and effective communicator, comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders and explaining insights in a clear, non-technical way

Desirable Experience

• Working in Supply Chain and/or Freight-focused roles, with hands-on exposure to operational and commercial freight activities
• Using Microsoft Power Platform tools, such as Power BI and Power Automate
• Exposure to Simul8 or other simulation / modelling tools
• Working with NetSuite and/or SAP ERP systems

Why join us?

• Be a part of this values-driven, high-growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves
• We're a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues
• Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog-friendly days and spaces
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees,and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process. If you want to learn more about life at Charlotte Tilbury Beauty please follow our LinkedIn page!

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