Senior Pricing Specialist

Role Overview: As a senior pricing specialist, you play a critical role in ensuring satisfactory complex pricing of air, ocean, and land shipments in the region you are serving. This involves high-level rate negotiation with agents, networks, and carriers. Key Responsibilities: - Pricing Support: - Receive complex quoting requests from regional sales and business units and keep track for accurate reporting. - Compile and distribute pricing matrixes under several carriers/airlines, with supporting terms and conditions. - Analyse shipping requests to identify and recommend the most efficient route to follow. - Follow up and negotiate with carriers/airlines to obtain ultimate rates and increase traffic. - Ensure timely response to regional sales and business units by providing updated quotations. - Leverage your PR and solid relationships with shipping lines and agents to secure bookings and top rates. - Pricing Analysis & Reporting: - Provide business unit managers with pricing analysis about won/lost ratio with recommended action plan. - Support pricing supervisor with the agent performance report for specific trade lanes. - Maintain pricing history for future or cross-functional partner reference. - Escalate the need for decision-making or risk-taking through the global network manager. - Monitor and update the list of incoming sales inquiries with their respective status to extract the quotations won/lost ratio per line of service, carrier, and client. - Gather data from competitors and client target rates to harden your comparative report, allowing room for operational improvements. Qualifications Required: - BA in logistics, supply chain, management, or any relevant field. - Excellent knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio). - 5+ years of experience working in the freight forwarding industry as pricing. - Demonstrated ability to work under pressure, strategic thinking, detail-orientation, and negotiation skills. - Excellent command of English; any other language is a plus.,