Pricing Agent

Summary of Essential Job Functions:

Pricing

• Apply and manage profit margin settings for ocean, air, road freight, and origin & destination charges as per directive from the Pricing Lead.
• Handle requests for profit margin adjustments.
• Keep record of local status of rate request, monitor feedback and follow up.

RFQ’s (Local, Regional & Global):

• Receive, quote, and submit local, regional, and global RFQs to requestor who owns the RFQ (i.e.: Sales)
• Coordination of RFQ’s (Pricing part only) and act as the liaison between relevant stakeholders
• Ensures a complete, accurate, timely and competitive submission (create pricing to win RFQ’s)
• Gather prices through: review previous submissions, achieved cost report, financial statistics (i.e.: costs/prices applied for previous shipments and procurement information from local product owner)
• Provide pricing level justification.

FreightOs (Quotation Tool)

• Act as escalation path in case of incomplete quotes, request of reductions or other margin related activities.
• Manage timely, complete, and accurate quotation requests.
• Ensure that each quotation is compliant with legal requirements (i.e.: terms & conditions), ensure that layout and content of each quotation deliver an outstanding customer experience resulting in higher win rates (i.e.: accuracy, completeness and easy to understand).

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Business, Quantitative Analysis, Logistics, or related field.

Experience and Knowledge:

• Freight Forwarding Pricing Experience – min 3 years.

• Understanding of ocean and air products structure – Very good
• Interpersonal skills - Excellent
• Influencing and persuasion skills – Excellent
• Networking skills - Excellent
• Negotiation skills – Very good
• Analytical skills – Very good
• Understanding of RFQ processes – Excellent
• Planning & organizing skills - Excellent
• Microsoft, FreightOs, Cargowise skills - Excellent
• Written and verbal communication skills - Excellent
• Time management – Excellent
• Data accuracy – Excellent

Personal Attributes:

• English and Spanish Languages – verbal/written – Fluent
• Additional Languages a plus