The Role
Own and validate container shipping service data, monitor vessel movements and schedule changes, investigate data-quality issues, query relational databases, support customer data requests, and maintain forecast accuracy. The role requires strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, English fluency, and independent collaboration across time zones. Familiarity with SQL, Power BI, AI tools, and ocean freight operations is beneficial.
Summary Generated by Built In
Data Detective Wanted to join our Data & Analytics Team
Location: Bucharest, Romania
As a Data Operations Analyst at Xeneta, you’ll learn how to master complex data analytics within the world of supply chain and logistics. Xeneta is one of the world's leading data platforms providing market intelligence to the ocean and air freight industry. We have a big team of skilled Data Analysts that will help you learn the ropes from the ground up, while enabling you to collect and analyze data in one of the world’s greatest container shipping datasets.
Location: Bucharest, Romania
As a Data Operations Analyst at Xeneta, you’ll learn how to master complex data analytics within the world of supply chain and logistics. Xeneta is one of the world's leading data platforms providing market intelligence to the ocean and air freight industry. We have a big team of skilled Data Analysts that will help you learn the ropes from the ground up, while enabling you to collect and analyze data in one of the world’s greatest container shipping datasets.
Bring your analytical mindset and a genuine curiosity for how global shipping works and join our team!
Key Responsibilities
Join our Liner Data & Analytics Team (LDAT) and own a portfolio of container shipping services for the world's largest ocean carriers. Liner shipping data is messy, inconsistent, and constantly changing. You'll turn that chaos into the accurate database our customers rely on to make shipping decisions, working at the center of a fast-moving industry with direct ownership over the data that shapes how the world sees ocean freight.
Your key tasks will be:
Your key tasks will be:
- Review and validate liner service data on a recurring cycle.
- Monitor vessel movements, deployment changes, blank sailings, and schedule updates for your portfolio, and update our platform to reflect the current state.
- Investigate and resolve data quality exceptions: missing vessel assignments, stale voyage legs, unmatched data points and carrier discrepancies.
- Query our database to dig into data issues and support your own analysis.
- Work closely with Customer Success and Sales teams in answering customers´ data requests throughout their procurement life cycle journey.
- Maintain forecast accuracy for your portfolio.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
In this role, we are looking for someone with the following background and skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Logistics, and related fields.
- Fluent in English, oral and written.
- High attention to detail; you catch discrepancies across large datasets.
- Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
- Comfortable working async across time zones in a distributed team.
- Outstanding team player, also fully capable of working independently.
- You're curious by nature and learn new tools and systems quickly, always asking why the data looks the way it does, not just what it shows.
Bonus points for
- Experience as a Data Analyst
- Familiarity with container shipping, vessel schedules, or liner service structures.
- Proficiency with AI tools to speed up data analysis, scripting, or documentation.
- Working knowledge of SQL; comfortable writing and troubleshooting queries against a relational database.
- Comfortable building and maintaining dashboards in Power BI.
Please note that English is our working language, so we ask that your application and CV are submitted in English.
Job Benefits
- We will help you grow your career: We help you identify areas of growth for you, whether you want to grow as a specialist in your field or eventually want to go into a leadership/management role.
- We have a transparent and open work environment where everyone is empowered to make an impact and encouraged to voice their ideas.
- Keeping true to our value, “Xeneta is one”, we regularly bring colleagues together across locations. We organize an annual global company trip, and we aim to create opportunities for people to meet in person from time to time.
- You will receive an individual education budget and can educate yourself during work hours: you can spend several hours each month attending courses, reading books, or getting involved in communities.
- You will enjoy our generous vacation plan: 26 paid days of vacation per year.
- We value work-life balance and want to make sure you can spend quality time with your family or enjoy your hobbies when your workday is over.
- We have flexible working hours (core time with meetings is 11:00 to 16:00 EET, the rest is up to you).
- Full-time position, employed through GI Group, our staffing partner in Romania.
Why you will love it here
- Our Impact: We’re category leaders digitalizing the way ocean and air freight is procured bringing on-demand actionable data to all industry stakeholders. We’re moving fast.
- Our Technology: Deep data analytics and integrations coupled with a scalable, sleek and beautiful user interface.
- Our Team: Shipping, consulting and tech all-stars on our roster.
- Our Values: Xeneta is One. Transparency builds trust. Ownership drives Impact. Modernization through data. Diversity is our Superpower.
Make sure to highlight your past achievements that you think are relevant. Be sure to give us an idea of who you are as a real live person and not just your professional experience.
Xeneta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
About
At Xeneta, we have been on a mission to transform the ocean and air freight markets since 2012. We are doing this by building a data platform that provides intelligence to the very opaque industry of buying and selling containerized freight. Now, Xeneta is the leading freight rate benchmarking and market analytics platform—creating transparency and empowering our customers to make data-driven decisions.Our customers include big brands such as Kuehne+Nagel, Coca-Cola Company, Unilever, Pfizer, Flexport, L'Oreál, Nestlé, and Volvo. Headquartered in Oslo, with offices in Hamburg, London and Jersey City and employees from over 60 different countries, we are a truly international company that celebrates diversity. We’re growing at a fast pace, helped in part by our latest investment round where APAX Digital invested $80M, and we are continuously searching for top talent and partners to join us on our mission.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Logistics, or a related field
- Fluent English, both oral and written
- High attention to detail and ability to identify discrepancies across large datasets
- Analytical and problem-solving mindset
- Ability to work asynchronously across time zones in a distributed team
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently
- Curiosity and ability to learn new tools and systems quickly
- Experience as a Data Analyst
- Familiarity with container shipping, vessel schedules, or liner service structures
- Proficiency with AI tools for data analysis, scripting, or documentation
- Working knowledge of SQL and ability to write and troubleshoot relational database queries
- Experience building and maintaining Power BI dashboards
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The Company
What We Do
Xeneta is a freight market intelligence platform that provides procurement and logistics teams with a comprehensive view of ocean and air freight, including rate benchmarks, market trends, and service reliability. It aims to transform how freight is bought and sold by increasing market transparency.
