Procurement & Pricing Specialist

If you are a passionate freight forwarder, who wants to work with drive and commitment at a dynamic international freight forwarder company, then keep reading!

We are seeking an exceptional, commercially driven professional to join us as a Procurement & Pricing Manager in Mumbai, India.

This role provides and delivers professional, helpful and high-quality insight information of market price and the best carrier option, based on their costing and services (include space and equipment review). It is a supportive role, where procedures are pretty essential in encouraging responsiveness to our daily operation needs and finding methods to support the achievement of commercial goals. Further, this role aims to win and maintain relationship with all of primary carriers, manages local negotiation and offers the right solution.

Main Tasks / Key Activities

• Provide market evaluation on a regular basis, to lead and guide commercial team in optimizing the business opportunity. This is to ensure evaluations accurate and comprehensive procurement on pricing for all trades; both from network and local negotiation, including space, equipment and customer feedback (on pricing)
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to gather the customer feedback and summarize the input into the report.
• Manage local relationship with shipping lines, including initiating for local negotiation and supporting/bridging for any services issues with the carrier.
• Properly and correctly follow the internal guidelines in relate with the procurement process as well as approval and coordinate closely with the BDM for support and approval.
• Constantly review working process with carriers to ensure best practice, but also that charged fees are in line with competitors.
• Always meet compliance to regulations. This includes internal policies and procedures such as operational process standards (OPS) and external government regulations or customer’s policies and requirements.
• Work daily as the key focal point for supporting the sales in securing the business opportunities with the maximum win rate ratio

Do you speak the language of a freight forwarder and want to contribute to a company that offers you opportunities for further development? Then we should definitely get to know each other!

Send us your application documents (CV and relevant certificates) to see if we are a good fit!

Mr. Kumara Muthukrishnan

HR Manager SEA/ India

kumara.muthukrishnan@pkg.atlanticforwarding.com