Tender Management Specialist

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage ocean tender intake, review, and coordination across internal stakeholders.
• Analyze tender requirements, including trade lanes, volumes, equipment types, free time, validity, service requirements, and special conditions.
• Coordinate with Product, Pricing, Sales, Operations, and regional teams to gather required inputs.
• Track tender timelines, milestones, missing information, and submission deadlines.
• Ensure pricing requests are clearly communicated to Product and carrier procurement teams.
• Consolidate pricing, terms, assumptions, and exceptions for final tender submission.
• Support bid strategy by identifying competitive lanes, risk areas, and margin opportunities.
• Maintain tender trackers, bid files, customer templates, and supporting documentation.
• Review final submissions for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with customer instructions.
• Support post-award implementation by communicating awarded lanes, pricing validity, SOP requirements, and allocation needs.

Qualifications:

• Experience in ocean freight forwarding, tender management, pricing, procurement, or sales support.
• Strong understanding of ocean freight terminology, trade lanes, rate structures, and carrier processes.
• Excellent organization and deadline management skills.
• Strong Excel skills and ability to work with large bid files.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to coordinate across multiple teams and regions.
• Experience with RFQ platforms, CargoWise, Freightos/WebCargo, or other logistics systems preferred.

Additional European locations may be considered.
Salary range: 48.000 - 66.000 EUR gross per year, depending on experience and qualifications.