Deputy/Assistant Manager Procurement- Sea Cargo

cargo-partner; Gujarat; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

cargo-partner in India is expanding its pricing and RFQ team for ocean and air freight movements. The role involves handling enquiries, negotiating with carriers, preparing quotes, and ensuring competitive pricing across pan-India operations.

You will coordinate with overseas agents, logisys tracker, and marketing branches, maintain pricing databases, and generate market information for sales. This is an on-site role requiring strong communication and relationship management.

Responsibilities

• Receiving enquiries from shipper/overseas agents / sales & acknowledging within 2hrs
• Updating enquiry into the enquiry tracker / logisys
• Rate negotiation with Shipping line/forwarding agent
• Follow-up of quote with shipper/agent
• Responsible for freight negotiations with carriers
• Ensure best price in the business
• Finalizing RFQ’S for ocean freight movements
• Ocean Freight rate negotiation with shipping line / Co-loaders for Inbound / outbound FCL as well as LCL shipments.
• Act as SPOC for Pricing & Nominations on a Pan India basis.
• Maintaining and developing relationships with Carriers
• Develop relationship with carriers / Rate Negotiations
• Attending customer’s queries locally & all branches as well as overseas agents and sending competitive quotes.
• Develop & maintain quoted v/s converted business database to evaluate the success of our pricing levels /strategy.
• Co-coordinating with Marketing Executive & Branch offices (Overseas Agents & in India’s offices) regarding the rates, Meet turn-around-time for every pricing request.

Job description

• Receiving enquires from shipper/overseas agents / sales & acknowledging within 2hrs
• Updating enquiry into the enquiry tracker / logisys
• Rate negotiation with Shipping line/forwarding agent
• Follow-up of quote with shipper/agent
• Responsible for freight negotiations with carriers
• Ensure best price in the business
• Finalizing RFQ’S for ocean freight movements
• Ocean Freight rate negotiation with shipping line / Co-loaders for Inbound / outbound FCL as well as LCL shipments.
• Act as SPOC for Pricing & Nominations on a Pan India basis.
• Ensuring space availability and solving out equipment and space problem with carriers.
• Filing the ocean freight rates with shipping lines for various destinations
• Respond to Global RFQ’s / Local rate request.
• Analyzing RFQ’s received from customers and responds them with pricing solutions
• Relationship Management
• Maintaining and developing relationships with Carriers
• Develop relationship with carriers / Rate Negotiations
• Attending customer’s queries locally & all branches as well as overseas agents and sending competitive quotes.
• Develop & maintain quoted v/s converted business database to evaluate the success of our pricing levels /strategy.
• Co-coordinating with Marketing Executive & Branch offices (Overseas Agents & in India’s offices) regarding the rates, Meet turn-around-time for every pricing request.
• Negotiate for freight with Liner’s/Forwarders (FCL/LCL both) and share the same with the marketing persons on weekly basis. Co-ordination with carriers/feeder operators/agents for rates.
• Develop & maintain pricing database for Air & Ocean FCL/LCL both on an ongoing basis.
• Filing freights in lines and updating freights in system for Air & sea both.
• Support to the seniors with analysis of performance data to facilitate management decision making.
• Generate Market Information and disseminate the same through relevant channels to sales.
• Daily reporting to HOD.

₹0 - ₹0 a year

Enquiry & Rate Management

• Receiving enquires from shipper/overseas agents / sales & acknowledging within 2hrs
• Updating enquiry into the enquiry tracker / logisys
• Rate negotiation with Shipping line/forwarding agent
• Follow-up of quote with shipper/agent
• Responsible for freight negotiations with carriers
• Ensure best price in the business
• Finalizing RFQ’S for ocean freight movements
• Ocean Freight rate negotiation with shipping line / Co-loaders for Inbound / outbound FCL as well as LCL shipments.
• Act as SPOC for Pricing & Nominations on a Pan India basis.
• Ensuring space availability and solving out equipment and space problem with carriers.
• Filing the ocean freight rates with shipping lines for various destinations
• Respond to Global RFQ’s / Local rate request.
• Analyzing RFQ’s received from customers and responds them with pricing solutions
• Relationship Management
• Maintaining and developing relationships with Carriers
• Develop relationship with carriers / Rate Negotiations
• Attending customer’s queries locally & all branches as well as overseas agents and sending competitive quotes.
• Develop & maintain quoted v/s converted business database to evaluate the success of our pricing levels /strategy.
• Co-coordinating with Marketing Executive & Branch offices (Overseas Agents & in India’s offices) regarding the rates, Meet turn-around-time for every pricing request.
• Negotiate for freight with Liner’s/Forwarders (FCL/LCL both) and share the same with the marketing persons on weekly basis. Co-ordination with carriers/feeder operators/agents for rates.
• Develop & maintain pricing database for Air & Ocean FCL/LCL both on an ongoing basis.
• Filing freights in lines and updating freights in system for Air & sea both.
• Support to the seniors with analysis of performance data to facilitate management decision making.
• Generate Market Information and disseminate the same through relevant channels to sales.
• Daily reporting to HOD.

Pricing

• Receiving enquires from shipper/overseas agents / sales & acknowledging within 2hrs
• Updating enquiry into the enquiry tracker / logisys
• Rate negotiation with Shipping line/forwarding agent
• Follow-up of quote with shipper/agent
• Responsible for freight negotiations with carriers
• Ensure best price in the business
• Finalizing RFQ’S for ocean freight movements
• Ocean Freight rate negotiation with shipping line / Co-loaders for Inbound / outbound FCL as well as LCL shipments.
• Act as SPOC for Pricing & Nominations on a Pan India basis.
• Ensuring space availability and solving out equipment and space problem with carriers.
• Filing the ocean freight rates with shipping lines for various destinations
• Respond to Global RFQ’s / Local rate request.
• Analyzing RFQ’s received from customers and responds them with pricing solutions
• Relationship Management
• Maintaining and developing relationships with Carriers
• Develop relationship with carriers / Rate Negotiations
• Attending customer’s queries locally & all branches as well as overseas agents and sending competitive quotes.
• Develop & maintain quoted v/s converted business database to evaluate the success of our pricing levels /strategy.
• Co-coordinating with Marketing Executive & Branch offices (Overseas Agents & in India’s offices) regarding the rates, Meet turn-around-time for every pricing request.
• Negotiate for freight with Liner’s/Forwarders (FCL/LCL both) and share the same with the marketing persons on weekly basis. Co-ordination with carriers/feeder operators/agents for rates.
• Develop & maintain pricing database for Air & Ocean FCL/LCL both on an ongoing basis.
• Filing freights in lines and updating freights in system for Air & sea both.
• Support to the seniors with analysis of performance data to facilitate management decision making.
• Generate Market Information and disseminate the same through relevant channels to sales.
• Daily reporting to HOD.

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