Solutions Director- Data Products
Apply NowCompany: eShipping, LLC
Location: Kansas City, KS 66104
Description:
Position Summary
The Solutions Director - Data Products, works with the executive and management teams of strategic accounts with a focus on eShipping's Profitability Intelligence service offering. This role is the strategic and analytical execution of eShipping's data products business vertical. The Director is responsible for identifying and acting upon key areas of risk, success, and continuous improvement within the supply chain, across the portfolio. This individual effectively communicates and implements findings, drives results, and enhances eShipping's value to key strategic partnerships by maximizing customer returns.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
Function as the customer's direct contact point into eShipping.
Provide strategic direction and analytical support for new and existing business solutions.
Partner with Account Managers to increase utilization of eShipping services and identify new sources of revenue and net income across business divisions.
Design, build, analyze, and interpret supply chain data that supports new and existing business solutions.
Develop, track, and communicate business cases/protocols to demonstrate value and gain trust through transparency and data.
Maintain an understanding of all-mode industry-related news and trends.
Assist with the development and maintenance of company KPI dashboards or reports.
Ensure all accounts are appropriately supported and quickly identify risk or growth opportunities.
Communicate detailed requirements with examples and clear use cases to cut down on cycle times for other teams to provide responses or support development.
Required Skills and Abilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Ability to Work Independently & Collaborate
Ability to work independently with minimal leadership oversight. This includes demonstrated ability to independently analyze and present data with strong analytical skills.
Ability to effectively interact with Sales, Solutions, Account Management, Operations, and Executive teams.
Communication and Service
Excellent customer service, time management, and prioritization skills.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, in person and via phone or virtual meeting.
Skilled at summarizing complex information into straightforward takeaways supported by data.
Utilize sound, independent judgment and make responsible decisions and recommendations.
Experienced professional with the ability to manage demanding executive and private equity personalities and expectations.
Experience working with solution and product teams to convey requirements effectively and thoughtfully.
Excellent follow-through and detail orientation.
Analytical Skills & Business Proficiency
Ability to understand, interpret, and explain complex supply chain issues, and respond appropriately.
Skilled at analyzing channels, customers, pricing, incentives, freight policies, and financial impacts to create data-driven solutions for improvement.
Predictive planning skills to foresee future needs and set up necessary views ahead of time.
Ability to translate a company's needs and solutions to others and articulate those needs in the form of detailed requirements for support teams.
Requires the ability to travel up to 20% of the work week.
Ability to work within a fast-paced team environment.
Minimum Education and Experience
Recommended 10+ years' industry experience.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Consulting experience is preferred, whether internally or through a consulting firm.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position for at least 50% of the time. The employee needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. The general level of physical activity would be defined as sedentary. The employee is regularly required to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, telephone, copy machine, and printer. Some movements of the hands, arms, and wrists may involve repetitive motions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, estimate, and assess various activities and surroundings.
Cognitive/Mental Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to comprehend and use basic language, either written or spoken, to communicate simple and complex information, ideas, and information. The employee is also required to use logic to define problems, collect information, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, interpret information, and deal with abstract variables for unique or unfamiliar situations. The employee must use problem-solving skills to formulate and apply appropriate courses of action for routine or familiar situations. The employee may be required to perform numerical operations including basic counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing or more complex quantitative calculations.
Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is inside a central heat and air-conditioned office building. The noise level in the work environment is minimal.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of an employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
eShipping LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
The Solutions Director - Data Products, works with the executive and management teams of strategic accounts with a focus on eShipping's Profitability Intelligence service offering. This role is the strategic and analytical execution of eShipping's data products business vertical. The Director is responsible for identifying and acting upon key areas of risk, success, and continuous improvement within the supply chain, across the portfolio. This individual effectively communicates and implements findings, drives results, and enhances eShipping's value to key strategic partnerships by maximizing customer returns.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
Function as the customer's direct contact point into eShipping.
Provide strategic direction and analytical support for new and existing business solutions.
Partner with Account Managers to increase utilization of eShipping services and identify new sources of revenue and net income across business divisions.
Design, build, analyze, and interpret supply chain data that supports new and existing business solutions.
Develop, track, and communicate business cases/protocols to demonstrate value and gain trust through transparency and data.
Maintain an understanding of all-mode industry-related news and trends.
Assist with the development and maintenance of company KPI dashboards or reports.
Ensure all accounts are appropriately supported and quickly identify risk or growth opportunities.
Communicate detailed requirements with examples and clear use cases to cut down on cycle times for other teams to provide responses or support development.
Required Skills and Abilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Ability to Work Independently & Collaborate
Ability to work independently with minimal leadership oversight. This includes demonstrated ability to independently analyze and present data with strong analytical skills.
Ability to effectively interact with Sales, Solutions, Account Management, Operations, and Executive teams.
Communication and Service
Excellent customer service, time management, and prioritization skills.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, in person and via phone or virtual meeting.
Skilled at summarizing complex information into straightforward takeaways supported by data.
Utilize sound, independent judgment and make responsible decisions and recommendations.
Experienced professional with the ability to manage demanding executive and private equity personalities and expectations.
Experience working with solution and product teams to convey requirements effectively and thoughtfully.
Excellent follow-through and detail orientation.
Analytical Skills & Business Proficiency
Ability to understand, interpret, and explain complex supply chain issues, and respond appropriately.
Skilled at analyzing channels, customers, pricing, incentives, freight policies, and financial impacts to create data-driven solutions for improvement.
Predictive planning skills to foresee future needs and set up necessary views ahead of time.
Ability to translate a company's needs and solutions to others and articulate those needs in the form of detailed requirements for support teams.
Requires the ability to travel up to 20% of the work week.
Ability to work within a fast-paced team environment.
Minimum Education and Experience
Recommended 10+ years' industry experience.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Consulting experience is preferred, whether internally or through a consulting firm.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position for at least 50% of the time. The employee needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. The general level of physical activity would be defined as sedentary. The employee is regularly required to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, telephone, copy machine, and printer. Some movements of the hands, arms, and wrists may involve repetitive motions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, estimate, and assess various activities and surroundings.
Cognitive/Mental Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to comprehend and use basic language, either written or spoken, to communicate simple and complex information, ideas, and information. The employee is also required to use logic to define problems, collect information, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, interpret information, and deal with abstract variables for unique or unfamiliar situations. The employee must use problem-solving skills to formulate and apply appropriate courses of action for routine or familiar situations. The employee may be required to perform numerical operations including basic counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing or more complex quantitative calculations.
Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is inside a central heat and air-conditioned office building. The noise level in the work environment is minimal.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of an employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
eShipping LLC is an equal opportunity employer.