Project Logistics Pricing Specialist

Kuehne+Nagel; The Woodlands (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kuehne+Nagel seeks a Project Logistics Pricing Specialist to drive competitive pricing for complex project cargo and multimodal logistics opportunities. You will manage pricing activities, source costs from carriers, and prepare customer quotations while aligning with profitability targets.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years in logistics pricing or related fields, with strong analytical and negotiation skills to support cross-functional teams and ensure successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Finance, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in logistics pricing, freight forwarding, project logistics, procurement, or transportation management.
• Experience preparing transportation quotations, RFQs, tenders, pricing analyses, and commercial proposals.

Responsibilities

• Develop accurate and competitive pricing solutions for project cargo opportunities, ensuring all customer requirements and cost elements are evaluated.
• Source and negotiate rates with carriers, subcontractors, and logistics providers for profitable project solutions.
• Prepare customer quotations, proposals, and selling rates per company pricing guidelines and profitability targets.
• Serve as central contact for pricing requests across air, ocean, charter, road, and other project modes.
• Collaborate with Business Development, Key Account, Tender, and Customer Excellence teams to support opportunities.
• Analyze quote performance: win/loss, margins, pricing trends; provide improvement recommendations.
• Ensure timely documentation, reporting, and handover of awarded business to operations.

Skills

Pricing strategy

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Finance, or related field

Job description

It's more than a job

As a member of the Freight Forwarding team Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in transporting goods, optimising processes, and fulfilling our customers' promises. And by transporting medicines, toys and important machine parts, you are not only delivering goods, you are making small and big moments possible for people all around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

Kuehne+Nagel is seeking a Project Logistics Pricing Specialist to support the development of competitive and profitable pricing solutions for complex project cargo and logistics opportunities. This role is responsible for managing pricing activities, sourcing supplier costs, preparing customer quotations, and collaborating with internal stakeholders to deliver accurate and commercially viable solutions across multimodal transportation services.

How you create impact

• Develop accurate and competitive pricing solutions for project cargo opportunities, ensuring all customer requirements, service scopes, and cost elements are properly evaluated.
• Source and negotiate rates with carriers, subcontractors, and logistics providers to support profitable project logistics solutions.
• Prepare customer quotations, proposals, and selling rates in accordance with company pricing guidelines and profitability targets.
• Serve as a central point of contact for pricing requests across air, ocean, charter, road, and other project logistics transportation modes.
• Collaborate with Business Development, Key Account, Tender, and Customer Excellence teams to support new business opportunities and customer requirements.
• Analyze quote performance, including win/loss ratios, margins, and pricing trends, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Ensure timely documentation, reporting, and handover of awarded business to operations and customer implementation teams.

If you require an accommodation for the recruitment /interview process (including alternate formats of materials, or accessible meeting rooms or other accommodation), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

What we would like you to bring

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Finance, or a related field, with 3+ years of experience in logistics pricing, freight forwarding, project logistics, procurement, or transportation management.
• 3+ years of experience preparing transportation quotations, RFQs, tenders, pricing analyses, and commercial proposals within a logistics or supply chain environment.
• Strong knowledge of multimodal transportation, including ocean freight, air freight, road transportation, charter services, and project cargo solutions.
• Advanced analytical and financial skills with experience evaluating costs, margins, profitability, and pricing performance metrics.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and supplier networks.

What's in it for you

Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. Base wage is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data.

Kuehne+Nagel participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used to assist in specific processes [e.g. screening applications, interview scheduling]. These tools analyze information to support decision-making, but final decisions are made by human reviewers.

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.

Kuehne+Nagel is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful retaliation. Kuehne+Nagel strictly prohibits all discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, religious creed or belief, physical or mental disability, marital or familial status, legally protected medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), gender (including gender identity and gender expression), sexual orientation, citizenship status, protected activity (such as opposition to or reporting of prohibited discrimination or harassment. Kuehne+Nagel will also make reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees, including accommodations for pregnancy and childbirth, and for the sincerely held religious beliefs of applicants and employees depending upon individual circumstances unless such accommodation would create an undue hardship on Kuehne+Nagel.