Deputy/Assistant Manager Procurement- Sea Cargo

cargo-partner GmbH; Mumbai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

cargo-partner GmbH in Mumbai seeks a focused Enquiry & Rate Management professional to handle incoming shipper enquiries, update the enquiry tracker, and conduct rate negotiations with carriers for ocean freight. The role includes finalizing RFQs and ensuring competitive pricing across pan-India and overseas channels.

The ideal candidate will coordinate with marketing and branch offices, maintain pricing databases, and respond to pricing requests promptly to support sales targets and customer

Qualifications

• Experience in freight pricing and rate negotiations.
• Strong RFQ handling and quotation issuance.
• Liaison with carriers and shipping lines for pricing.
• Ability to maintain pricing databases for air & ocean.
• Daily/regular reporting to management on pricing activities.

Responsibilities

• Receiving enquiries from shipper/overseas agents and acknowledging within 2hrs.
• Updating enquiry into the enquiry tracker/logisys.
• Rate negotiation with shipping lines/forwarding agents.
• Follow-up of quotes with shipper/agent.
• Finalize RFQs for ocean freight movements (FCL/LCL).
• Negotiate freight with liners/forwarders and share results with marketing.

Skills

Rate negotiation

RFQ analysis

Carrier relations

Pricing strategy

Logistics coordination

Tools

Enquiry tracker (Logisys)

Job description

₹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.

Pricing

• 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.