Eleanor Powell
About Eleanor Powell
Eleanor Powell is an Associate Product Manager, Reporting & Analytics at Flexport in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has extensive experience in global procurement operations and program management, with a background in Global Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Colby College.
Current Role at Flexport
Eleanor Powell currently serves as Associate Product Manager, Reporting & Analytics at Flexport in the San Francisco Bay Area. In her role, she is involved in designing data ingestion processes using manual data entry, parsers, and EDI. She is also responsible for standardizing QA to ensure accurate data transformation and extraction via API, which enables users to optimize 70% of bookings based on revenue and generate 70% of accrual costs.
Previous Positions at Flexport
Before her current role, Eleanor held several positions at Flexport. From 2020 to 2022, she was Manager, Global Procurement Operations, where she managed a team of seven across the US, Asia, and Europe using agile sprint methodology. Prior to this, she was Senior Associate, Global Ocean Operations for three months in 2020. She also worked as Senior Ocean Procurement Associate for 11 months in 2019, and as Ocean Procurement Associate for eight months in 2018, all within the San Francisco Bay Area.
Experience at Social Impact
Eleanor gained valuable experience at Social Impact in Arlington, VA. She served as Program Associate, Program Management Unit for three months in 2018. Before that, she was Senior Program Assistant, Program Management Unit in 2017 for 11 months and Program Assistant, Performance Evaluation in 2016 for 11 months. She started her journey at Social Impact as a Program Management Intern in 2015 for three months.
Early Career and Internships
Eleanor's early career includes various roles that honed her skills in research, human rights, and governance. She contributed as a Volunteer Contributor for AIDS-Free World for five months remotely in 2015-2016 and interned for the Council on Foreign Relations as an International Institutions and Global Governance Intern for two months in 2015. Additionally, she held research assistant positions at Colby College and interned at SV2 - Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund in 2014.
Educational Background
Eleanor earned her Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies with a minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Colby College, where she studied from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, she attended Castilleja School from 2004 to 2011. During her time in college, she took on various roles, including Government Department Research Assistant and Oak Institute for International Human Rights Executive Board Member.