About Portcast
Our mission is to transform international supply chains to be more resilient by helping logistics companies realise the full potential of their data. We cater to both shipping lines and cargo airlines. This covers 90% of the world trade volume that travels via ocean and 35% of world trade value that travels via air. We use proprietary machine learning algorithms and real-time external market data (such as economic indices, marine weather, satellite-based data, etc) to predict how much cargo will be shipped, when it will arrive and deliver actionable insights.
We are excited to be a fast-growing team of software engineers, data scientists and industry experts. Based out of Singapore, we’ve been building together since 2018, and are backed by some of the leading investors including Wavemaker Partners, Entrepreneur First, SGInnovate and Investigate VC.
About the role
We are looking for an exceptional business development analyst: an individual with a strong growth mindset, commercial awareness and a generalist skill set. This role is ideal for a candidate who is looking to immerse themselves into different fields from sales, business development and product management. You’ll get a chance to work in an interdisciplinary team of industry experts, data scientists and top-tier engineering talent. If you are a curious individual, looking to accelerate your career as a start up operator - we’d love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities
Data Acquisition Strategy: ocean transportation data is segregated across multiple sources like ocean carriers, satellite, ports, etc. In order to reach exceptional data quality, Portcast has set up processes to deep dive into completeness, correctness and accuracy of the data at each step of the ocean movement. You’ll work closely with the engineering, data science and product teams to engage, conduct testing, and integrate various data providers into our existing product.
Data Due Diligence: being in a business of selling the ‘new gold’ (data), we are meticulous in ensuring our data is complete, correct and accurate. You’ll work directly with the customer and our sales team to monitor data quality metrics and recommend appropriate measures to integrate additional data sources to the engineering team.
Sales Development/Customer Success: You will get hands-on experience in running B2B trials: from the initial lead generation, outreach to taking part in live trials and customer success (upon conversion to a paid customer).
Key responsibilities
Ensure data quality by pro-actively researching and comparing data provided by shipping lines, ports and customers to ensure data completeness, timeliness and correctness.
Identify gaps in current data and how to close the gaps from other sources / integration
Work closely with the sales team and product team to understand any issues related to data for the customer and how that may be added to the product
Communicate with the customer or external vendors on data related matters and be involved in new customer pilots and on boarding
Provide weekly updates to the product and business team on improvements in data quality
Requirements
Keen interest in startup ecosystem, supply chain, logistics or SaaS/B2B companies
Good at problem solving and solution mindset
Experience working remotely and strong project management skills
Confident with Excel / Google Sheets for data querying, wrangling and visualization
Knowledge of Python and/or SQL is a plus
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