Pricing / Inside Sales

cargo-partner GmbH; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic global logistics provider as an Inside Sales professional, where your expertise in air and sea freight operations will be valued. This hybrid role offers the chance to work autonomously while collaborating with a diverse team to drive business success. With a competitive salary and benefits, including 25 days of holiday and private health insurance, you'll thrive in a fast-paced environment that encourages initiative and personal growth. Be part of a company that is not only a leader in the logistics industry but also committed to your career development. If you're ready to take your career to the next level, this opportunity is for you!

Benefits

25 days holiday

Private health insurance

Access to various cargo-partner benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in air and sea operations or pricing is essential.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a commercial mindset are required.

Responsibilities

• Prepare quotations for SEA/AIR export and import.
• Develop relationships with customers to identify new business opportunities.
• Manage inbound/outbound calls and customer service via email.

Skills

Air freight operations

Ocean freight operations

Interpersonal skills

Customer service

Sales skills

Negotiation skills

Tools

QUOM system

Job description

Are you experienced in Air and Ocean freight operations with excellent interpersonal skills and want to diversify your experience with an inside sales role? Perhaps you’re already working in a pricing role and eager to join a truly global business where you can succeed both in the UK and internationally. Whatever your circumstances cargo-partner could be your answer!

For over 40 years, we have served our clients with our Air, Ocean, Road, and Warehousing portfolio and we have enjoyed another very successful year at cargo-partner having strengthened our global position by joining the Nippon Express Group.

In our relatively short time in the UK we have enjoyed remarkable success and as we look to strengthen our pricing team across the UK & IE we are on the hunt for an Inside Sales professional that has experience within Air and Sea operations or has held a similar pricing role. This will be a hybrid role with an expectation to work from either our Manchester or Bradford office. This is an opportunity to join a growing global business and help write our success story.

Who are we?

cargo-partner are a global info-logistics provider offering a comprehensive portfolio of air, sea, land transport and warehousing solutions. With nearly 40 years expertise in information technology and supply chain optimization, we design tailor-made services for a wide range of industries to create competitive benefits for our customers all around the world. We are a diverse workforce with over 160 offices in more than 40 countries across the globe with new locations having already opened this year as we look to continue our growth.

What will you do?

1. Quotations for UK & IE SEA/AIR export and import via QUOM system
2. Following up the customers and the opportunities
3. Work closely with Carriers / Truckers and other vendors in procurement and costing
4. Inbound and Outbound calls and Customer service via email
5. Develop relationships with customers in order to identify new business opportunities and promoting cargo-partner services (air, ocean, road, customs, and contract logistics)
6. Find the best solution for each shipment
7. Team work: Working close with NPM and Operations and other inside sales
8. Join specific meetings with agents
9. Search via email, phone or platforms the ideal solution for the agent

What does the right candidate look like?

1. Experience in air and sea operations or pricing
2. A true commercial thinker, tenacious attitude and drive to succeed
3. Outstanding interpersonal skills
4. Enjoys working in an autonomous role where they can manage their own time and workload
5. You take the initiative and take responsibility
6. You thrive in a busy and fast paced environment
7. A strong desire to deliver the best outcome and results
8. Open to learning new tasks and developing your career
9. Fluent English

What can we offer?

1. Autonomous role with the ability to implement your own initiatives
2. Dynamic work in a stable international company with a leading position in the air and sea freight market
3. A competitive basic salary and benefit package – 25 days holiday, private health insurance, and access to a range of other cargo-partner benefits