As a Data Analyst, you'll design dashboards, optimize SQL queries, collaborate with stakeholders, and provide insights to enhance operational efficiency.
About the Opportunity:
As a Data Analyst for Laufer Group International, your work will directly influence how we optimize operations, improve performance, and scale smarter through data.
In this role, you will partner with stakeholders across the organization to deliver actionable insights, dashboards, and data solutions that improve decision-making and business performance. You’ll work closely with an elite technology team to transform complex data into clear, impactful reporting while continuously identifying opportunities to optimize processes.
This is an ideal opportunity for a data-driven professional with strong SQL, Power BI, and data visualization skills who thrives in a fast-paced logistics / global trade environment.
Why Laufer Group International:
What You’ll Do:
What We Are Looking For:
Salary Range: $100,000-$135,000
Where You’ll Be: 20 Vesey St, New York, NY 10007
As a Data Analyst for Laufer Group International, your work will directly influence how we optimize operations, improve performance, and scale smarter through data.
In this role, you will partner with stakeholders across the organization to deliver actionable insights, dashboards, and data solutions that improve decision-making and business performance. You’ll work closely with an elite technology team to transform complex data into clear, impactful reporting while continuously identifying opportunities to optimize processes.
This is an ideal opportunity for a data-driven professional with strong SQL, Power BI, and data visualization skills who thrives in a fast-paced logistics / global trade environment.
Why Laufer Group International:
- Competitive compensation package aligned with data analyst roles
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with company match
- Be part of a company redefining global logistics and supply chain solutions
- Work alongside industry experts in a collaborative, high-performance environment
- Gain exposure to international logistics and global markets
- Opportunity to grow your career in a rapidly evolving, high-impact industry
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain Power BI dashboards and business intelligence reports to support operational and strategic decisions
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, define KPIs, and deliver scalable data solutions
- Write, optimize, and troubleshoot complex SQL queries (including subqueries, joins, and window functions)
- Perform SQL performance tuning to improve query efficiency and system performance
- Partner with application development teams to translate business needs into technical requirements
- Support testing and validation of internally developed applications and data workflows
- Analyze data trends and provide insights to improve processes, quality, and operational efficiency
- Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across reporting systems
What We Are Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience in a Data Analyst, Business Intelligence, or Analytics role
- Advanced proficiency in SQL (complex queries, performance tuning, data modeling concepts)
- Hands-on experience with Power BI or similar BI tools (Tableau, Looker, etc.)
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (PivotTables, INDEX/MATCH, data analysis)
- Strong data visualization and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable business insights
- Experience working with large, complex, or unstructured datasets, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Analytical, curious, and proactive mindset with a drive to understand the “why” behind the data and own solutions end-to-end
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams and stakeholders
- Adaptable and eager to learn new tools, systems, and technologies
- Experience in logistics, supply chain, freight forwarding, or NVOCC is a plus (or strong interest in learning)
Salary Range: $100,000-$135,000
Where You’ll Be: 20 Vesey St, New York, NY 10007
Similar Jobs
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Financial Services
Evaluate LLM-driven document processing systems and agentic workflows, analyze model errors and hallucinations, curate golden datasets, and build monitoring dashboards and evaluation harnesses. The role performs root-cause analysis on financial and operational data, tracks model drift and performance, and translates business problems into quantitative insights while collaborating with AI engineers, product managers, and operations leaders.
Top Skills:
Agentic WorkflowsAi/Ml ModelsArize AiAWSDbtLangsmithLarge Language Models (Llms)Multi-Agent OrchestrationPostgresPythonSnowflakeSQLTime-Series ModelsTrulens
Healthtech • Social Impact • Software
Partner with business leaders to define and operationalize KPIs, build scalable dashboards and data models, perform deep analyses to uncover insights, and translate findings into actionable recommendations. Deliver recurring and ad-hoc analyses, ensure data accuracy and accessibility, and use AI-assisted tools to accelerate workflows while validating results for impact on growth, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
Top Skills:
Ai ToolsDbtHexLookerRetoolSnowflakeSQL
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Design and build scalable data solutions for high-volume transaction streams. Partner with product and business teams to deliver analytics, dashboards, and insights. Lead data strategy, architecture, governance, quality, lineage, and access controls. Enable self-service capabilities and explore new open-source technologies to support business intelligence and operational needs.
Top Skills:
AWSBi Visualization ToolData WarehousesOpen Source TechnologiesPythonRSparkSQL
What you need to know about the Chicago Tech Scene
With vibrant neighborhoods, great food and more affordable housing than either coast, Chicago might be the most liveable major tech hub. It is the birthplace of modern commodities and futures trading, a national hub for logistics and commerce, and home to the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association. This diverse blend of industry influences has helped Chicago emerge as a major player in verticals like fintech, biotechnology, legal tech, e-commerce and logistics technology. It’s also a major hiring center for tech companies on both coasts.
Key Facts About Chicago Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 245,800; 5.2% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: McDonald’s, John Deere, Boeing, Morningstar
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, fintech, software, logistics technology
- Funding Landscape: $2.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Arch Venture Partners, MATH Venture Partners, Jump Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Institute of Technology, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
