Logistics Analyst

Logistics Analyst

About us: 

vineyard vines is a highly successful, privately held, American clothing and accessory retailer founded in 1998 on Martha’s Vineyard by brothers, Shep & Ian Murray. With Shep & Ian still at the helm today, vineyard vines has experienced exponential year over year growth and now operates over 120 retail locations including an outlet division, a successful e-commerce business, domestic distribution center, and expanding corporate headquarters. In addition, vineyard vines is carried in major department stores such as Nordstrom and Bloomingdales as well as numerous specialty boutiques across the US.    

vineyard vines was founded on a state of mind that Every day should feel this good.   

You don’t need to be on a beach, by the ocean or on vacation to have Every day should feel this good moments. It’s a state of mind that we all experience, and one where everyone is invited. At vineyard vines, we don’t just live an #EDSFTG life away from our desks—we bring it to work with us, too.    

In our stores, at our Harbor Drive headquarters or working remotely, our company culture is fun, encouraging and welcoming to all. We work hard and play harder, and we never take ourselves too seriously. And while we have many company goals, our number one priority is making vineyard vines a great place to work for all employees.    

Our team is our family, and we’d never have grown to where we are today without them.   

We’re committed to building an inclusive team across all channels, departments and stores within our community. We hope you’ll join us and see what the smiling pink whale is all about 

Overview:

The Logistics Analyst is responsible for helping to maintain and improve vineyard vines’ global transportation strategy in order to obtain short and long-range performance objectives.  This person is responsible for working with freight forwarders on all modes of transportation (Ocean, Air, LTL, FTL, parcel, etc.) to develop optimal transportation solutions and best practices, as well as creating full visibility with milestone and exception reporting, from the point of freight booking through delivery.  This individual will interact frequently with all levels of the organization internally, and communicate externally with factories and third party logistics service providers. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for inbound freight booking & purchase order management with freight forwarders and supplier base
• Support efforts for all modes of inbound transportation across the organization (FCL, LCL, FTL, LTL, parcel)
• Optimize consolidation efforts with freight forwarders across all international inbound shipments to help reduce time in transit and costs
• Help manage carrier relationships in accordance to Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
• Maintain best in class routings specific from each origin, to ensure optimal transit times
• Develop and maintain freight reporting & analysis
• Provide and maintain internal cross-functional reporting and visibility standards
• Oversee timeliness of receipts & put-away at distribution center
• Develop and maintain a strong working relationship based on respect and trust with all third party vendors. Implement, manage, and enforce processes to achieve best in-class service
• Develop and maintain vendor scorecards in accordance to SLA’s and KPI’s.
• Own Advanced Shipping Notification (ASN) validation for all inbound purchase orders

What you bring:

• BA or BS degree is preferred or supply chain experience
• Minimum 1-2 years supply chain, production and/or operations experience preferred
• Strong project management, presentation and communication skills
• Possess the ability to develop supportive partnerships across the organization including cross functional stakeholders and teams
• Possess and demonstrates decision-making ability
• Strong analytical skills to understand and develop solutions to complex and diverse business process problems
• Strong data management skills and with strict attention to detail
• Strong qualitative and quantitative skills
• Strong microsoft excel background

Every day will feel this good because: 

• We have a fun-spirited entrepreneurial culture filled with truly "good" people
• We have flexible working hours and work from home days to accommodate your personal life
• We offer a generous employee discount so you can rep our lifestyle on-and-off the boat
• We offer a competitive salary package, 401-K, commuter benefits, and paid-family leave, health savings, flex spending accounts, life & disability insurance
• We have an onsite gym as well as health & financial wellness programs to keep you active
• We offer 2 summer Fridays to take off in addition to a competitive vacation policy & holiday calendar