Excel Power User Wanted!
Junior Data Analyst to join our Data department - Rate Management division
Junior Data Analyst to join our Data department - Rate Management division
Location: Oslo
Are you a structured thinker with strong Excel skills, have an analytical mindset, and a customer-focused approach? We’re looking for a Junior Data Analyst to join our Data team in the Rate Management division — where you’ll combine hands-on data work with direct communication and collaboration with some of the biggest players in global logistics.
At Xeneta, we help some of the world’s most recognized brands — including Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and L’Oréal — benchmark their ocean freight rates, alongside leading logistics providers like Kuehne+Nagel and CEVA Logistics. As a Junior Data Analyst, you’ll be responsible for a portfolio of these global shippers and logistics companies, ensuring their freight rate data is clean, accurate, and ready for analysis. You’ll play a key role in supporting their procurement processes and be a trusted point of contact for all data-related matters.
This role is ideal if you enjoy working directly with data to solve real business problems and improve the customer experience. Success in this role starts with strong Excel capabilities, a structured mindset, and a genuine interest in commercial and operational challenges.
What you will be doing
- Take ownership of a set group of customer accounts, acting as their go-to data partner throughout the freight procurement lifecycle
- Work hands-on in Microsoft Excel to clean, structure, validate, and deliver complex ocean freight pricing data
- Collaborate closely with Customer Success and Sales teams to respond to customer requests across RFQs, contract updates, and rate analysis
- Ensure timely and accurate data uploads into our platform to support meaningful benchmarking and insights
- Gain a deep understanding of global ocean freight dynamics and how pricing works in both short- and long-term markets
- Partner with internal teams (Product, Tech, Data Science) to improve workflows and build tools that enhance quality and efficiency
Your profile and experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Economics, Logistics, Engineering, or another analytical field
- Strong working knowledge of Excel, including formulas, logic flows, lookups, and pivot tables
- Comfortable working with unstructured datasets and identifying patterns or inconsistencies
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal — you enjoy solving problems together with customers
- Fluent in English
- Naturally detail-oriented, dependable, and proactive
- A team player who takes ownership, follows through, and delivers on time
Bonus points for
- Experience working with unstructured datasets in Excel
- Experience analyzing or working with price data
- Previous experience in customer-facing roles
- Proficiency in visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or QuickSight
- Experience with SQL or Python
Why join us?
This is a great opportunity to build your skills at the intersection of data and global trade — with a clear path for growth into more advanced analytical, customer-facing, or operational roles. You’ll get exposure to real-world data challenges, work with globally recognized brands, and be part of a fast-growing company reshaping the ocean freight industry.
Sound like you?
If you're ready to combine Excel expertise with customer communication and commercial insight, we’d love to hear from you.
Xeneta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
If you're ready to combine Excel expertise with customer communication and commercial insight, we’d love to hear from you.
Xeneta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
What we offer
- 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 organize social events, including global company trips, breakfast gatherings, Friday after-work-socials, and weekly quizzes.
- You will enjoy our generous vacation plan: 5-10 extra paid days off around public holidays throughout the year and 5 weeks of paid vacation.
- 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.
- We have flexible working hours (core time with meetings is 10:00 to 15:00, the rest is up to you), and you can work remotely for extended periods when needed.
- 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 will help you relocate to Oslo if you are applying from abroad. We will provide you with a temporary apartment and reimburse your expenses for the relocation flight, permit and visa fees.
- Full-time, permanent position with 480k NOK annual salary.
About Xeneta
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.
Application Deadline
September 07, 2025
Department
RMT - LSP
Employment Type
Permanent - Full Time
Location
Oslo
Workplace type
Hybrid