Sea Logistics Pricing Expert

Kuehne + Nagel AS; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Kuehne+Nagel is seeking a professional to join their Sea Logistics team, focusing on pricing strategies and procurement management. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure profitable gross yields while maintaining strong carrier relationships and data management. This position offers an opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a leading global logistics company.

Qualifications

• Experience with pricing strategies and procurement.
• Ability to maintain and strengthen carrier relationships.
• Strong analytical skills for pricing data management.

Responsibilities

• Set margins for pricing requests across all trades.
• Maintain relationships with carriers and execute pricing strategies.
• Provide timely responses to rate requests and find solutions for profit maximization.

Skills

Pricing strategy

Carrier relationship management

Data analysis

Operational excellence

Job description

It's more than a job

When you work in Freight Logistics and Operations at Kuehne+Nagel, you play a key role in optimising processes and ensuring that inventory and shipments move efficiently. But that is not all. Your work also helps ensure that vital medicines reach patients on time and supports other essential deliveries, from wind turbines to semiconductors. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

You will be part of our Sea Logistics team, adding your expertise + skills to the delivery of customer + operational excellence.

How you create impact

You will be responsible for focusing on setting margins for pricing requests across all trades, taking a variety of elements into consideration (market levels, industry specifics, customer requirements + price sensitivities) while trading off against procurement levels + internal policies to maintain a profitable gross yield.

What we would like you to bring

You will do this by working with a variety of internal stakeholders while focusing on the following key objectives:

• To maintain + strengthen carrier relationships on operational levels, supporting sea logistics procurement + carrier relation management.
• To execute pricing strategies by liaising on pricing + request for quotation (RFQ) preparation.
• To actively exchange information + knowledge with your team + other stakeholders to gain new, retain + further develop existing accounts.
• To provide timely responses to rate requests, finding mutual solutions for profit maximization.
• To set selling prices within given bandwidth as per local conditions + pricing policy.
• To direct the organization to book shipments based on carrier agreements or lowest price, ensuring full transparency.
• To coordinate + assist business owners for non-standard RFQ related requests.
• To ensure that databases are maintained with up-to-date pricing information + drive continuous improvements through feedback.
• To build and manage pricing data, analyze trends, and support pricing strategy with actionable insights.
• To take ownership of building pricing datasets and uncover insights from diverse sources to drive strategic decisions.

What's in it for you

As an employer, Kuehne+Nagel stands for equal opportunity and we are committed to diversity in our teams with regards to people with disabilities. We believe that you can make a valuable contribution to Kuehne+Nagel and look forward to receiving your application.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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