Job Title: Expert – SLS, House of Pricing

Job Location: Manila

As an Airfreight or Ocean Freight Pricing Expert you will support the execution of an improved global tender process for airfreight or ocean freight product. The AFR / OFR pricing expert manages the technical translation of customer formats, including collection of the rates from the country teams not limited to: providing value proposition; translate bid strategy, customer requirements and network fit.

Key Responsibilities:

Bid Management:

· Support the Gatekeeper from pre-bid to post bid on nominated AFR / OFR opportunities.

· Manage incoming RFQ’s and work together with all stakeholders in preparing, finalizing and delivering a timely and winning tender response

· Engage with country teams and regional pricing teams to ensure all bid responses are checked & validated for accuracy, adherence to customer’s requirements

· Translation and execution of CPT-IPT-CPT

· Evaluate country pricing to bid and benchmark against comparative bid data, so as to optimize customer pricing effectiveness

· Develop and maintain strong contacts with internal customers such as Commercial Owner, Industry Sector Sales (Life Sciences and Healthcare, Chemicals, Automotive, Engineering & Manufacturing, Energy, Technology, Consumer and/or Retail), Account- and Product-Management

· Keep up to date with products and all relevant market information and developments

· Follow up on submitted bids with Bid Managers to understand and place on record the bid outcome and lesson learned

· Understand the complexity of customer’s requirements such as air and ocean transportation, sector specific knowledge, IT customer solutions etc.

· Support and document online sourcing activates directly with the countries

· Support and development of technical narratives related to Airfreight / Ocean Freight Solutions

Sanity Check & Review:

· Check of internal consistency with guidance/Pricing Instructions

· Challenge pricing as necessary with CACC/ROCC

· Support on re-rounds & final offers

· Validation with regional/countries as needed

· Analysis to support walk-away decision

· Support decision makers with final rounds

Support Continuous Improvement Processes:

· Shorten turn-around times & improve quality

· Work with Regional AFR / OFR teams to facilitate and enable competitive and differentiating AFR pricing solutions

· Others: As needed/required by Regional AFR / OFR Product.

Stakeholder: External

· Guidance of account owners to provide relevant data and BI as basis for pricing instructions

· Proactive bid preparation prior to bid launch Guidance of Commercial Owners on AFR RFQ or OFR RFQ approach

Required Skills/Abilities:

· Graduate (Bachelor’s degree from a recognized University in any discipline).

· Minimum 3 years air / ocean operations experiences.

· Knowledge of Airfreight / Ocean Freight forwarding business and understanding of supply chain logistics

· Operations experience in a complex global environment

· Very Strong people and communication skills

· Effective time management with problem solving and decision making skills

· Proven ability to work independently and as a team member

· Very advanced knowledge in Microsoft Excel

· Advanced Project Management Skills

· Very good English skills, both written and spoken