Excel Power User Wanted! Junior Data Operations Analyst to join our Data department - Rate Management division

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Please note: We’re collecting applications throughout December. Because of the holiday season, our team will begin reviewing candidates from 5 January 2026. Thanks for your patience, and happy holidays!

As a Junior Data Operations Analyst, you’ll be handling massive amounts of unstructured and complex price data provided by some of the world’s largest companies. As data standards are unheard of in our industry, you will work closely with customers in order to ensure the proper quality and structure required for rate benchmarking. You will assist with data queries throughout the procurement lifecycle journey of our customers, and you will be able to contribute to the development of new tools and processes that improve data quality and optimize efficiency. Bring your ‘Excel tool suite’, a problem solving and analytical mindset and a keen eye for detail and join our team!

What you will be doing

• Work hands-on in Microsoft Excel to review, structure, validate, standardize and deliver complex ocean freight pricing data.
• Ensure timely, consistent and accurate data uploads into our platform to support meaningful benchmarking and insights.
• Identify anomalies and flag recurring issues and inconsistencies to support Data Quality and trustworthy benchmarking.
• Gain a deep understanding of global ocean freight dynamics and how pricing works in both short- and long-term markets.
• Collaborate closely with Customer Success and Sales teams to respond to customer requests across RFQs, contract updates, and rate analysis.
• Work with Data Science, Tech, Product and other stakeholders to come up with new data management solutions and actionable insights that improve the customer’s experience.

Your profile and experience

• Bachelor degree in Business Administration, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related 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 and internal stakeholders.
• Fluent in English, oral and written.
• Naturally detail-oriented, dependable, and proactive.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Customer-centric mindset.
• A team player who takes ownership, follows through, and delivers on time.

Bonus points for

• Experience from working with complex unstructured datasets in Excel.
• Experience from 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.

Who you are

You may be early in your career, but you’re motivated, reliable, and curious. You enjoy structured workflows and take pride in producing high-quality work that contributes to a larger mission. You want to grow into more complex operational or analytical roles over time.

Xeneta is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Please note that English is our working language, so we ask that your application and CV are submitted in English.

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 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.
• 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 10:00 to 15:00, the rest is up to you).

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.

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.