Ocean Freight Procurement Specialist

CIMC WETRANS (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the logistics sector is seeking a Procurement Specialist to support the Asia Pacific Procurement team. The role involves negotiating rates, managing carrier relationships, and providing analytical support to optimize procurement strategies. The ideal candidate will have strong negotiation skills and the ability to analyze data to drive decisions. This position is crucial for ensuring effective allocation fulfilment and fostering growth through strategic partnerships with carriers.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement and rate negotiation.
• Strong analytical skills for benchmarking and cost comparison.

Responsibilities

• Support procurement team in rates negotiation and carrier management.
• Develop and maintain rates benchmark and service profile analysis.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to resolve issues and optimize solutions.

Skills

Negotiation

Analytical Skills

Relationship Management

Job description

This position supports the Asia Pacific Procurement team in rates negotiation, carriers’ relationship management, implementation of procurement strategies by providing analytic and tools support (i.e. benchmarking of rates, cost comparison, tracking of allocations utilisation, identification of main tradelane/demands, carriers’ review, etc).

Responsible for rate procurement, space protection and negotiations with carriers and liasing with internal stakeholders. Ensuring allocation fulfilment and tracking of utilisation.

Responsible for establishing and maintaining of relationships with carriers. Support the volume growth with core carrier by working closely with carrier and all stakeholders through identification of opportunities and matching demand/supply.

Develop and maintain rates benchmark and carriers’ service profile analysis of Asia ports.

Coordinate with all stakeholders to ensure issues are being escalated and resolved, and implement appropriate plans to derive the most optimal solution.

Develop and maintain contract rates database, including key contract terms for a good overview of contract negotiations and identification. Also for budget purpose.

Create Procurement reporting for analysis and to identify where main volume is and be able to strategically shift the volumes to core carrier by working closely with internal stakeholders. Analysis of reports also support on rate negotiation, identifying pros and cons of rate proposal, etc

Design and implement standardised template for internal cost submissions, e.g. rates issue, project bidding.

Handle any other assignments as and when required by the Procurement Manager and Management.