Pricing Agent

Descripción

The primary responsibilities of the Pricing Agent are to drive competitive, timely complete and accurate pricing for customers and network requests, customers tariffs and RFQs resulting in business growth.
This position has a strong focus on data accuracy, process efficiency, excellent time management, and Excel tool capabilities.

Summary of Essential Job Functions:

Pricing

• Apply and manage profit margin settings for ocean, air, road freight, and origin & destination charges as per directive from the Pricing Lead.
• Handle requests for profit margin adjustments.
• Keep record of local status of rate request, monitor feedback and follow up.

RFQ’s (Local, Regional & Global):

• Receive, quote, and submit local, regional, and global RFQs to requestor who owns the RFQ (i.e.: Sales)
• Coordination of RFQ’s (Pricing part only) and act as the liaison between relevant stakeholders
• Ensures a complete, accurate, timely and competitive submission (create pricing to win RFQ’s)
• Gather prices through: review previous submissions, achieved cost report, financial statistics (i.e.: costs/prices applied for previous shipments and procurement information from local product owner)
• Provide pricing level justification.

FreightOs (Quotation Tool)

• Act as escalation path in case of incomplete quotes, request of reductions or other margin related activities.
• Manage timely, complete, and accurate quotation requests.
• Ensure that each quotation is compliant with legal requirements (i.e.: terms & conditions), ensure that layout and content of each quotation deliver an outstanding customer experience resulting in higher win rates (i.e.: accuracy, completeness and easy to understand).

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Business, Quantitative Analysis, Logistics, or related field.

Experience and Knowledge:

• Freight Forwarding Pricing Experience – min 3 years.

• Understanding of ocean and air products structure – Very good
• Interpersonal skills - Excellent
• Influencing and persuasion skills – Excellent
• Networking skills - Excellent
• Negotiation skills – Very good
• Analytical skills – Very good
• Understanding of RFQ processes – Excellent
• Planning & organizing skills - Excellent
• Microsoft, FreightOs, Cargowise skills - Excellent
• Written and verbal communication skills - Excellent
• Time management – Excellent
• Data accuracy – Excellent

Personal Attributes:

• English and Spanish Languages – verbal/written – Fluent
• Additional Languages a plus

FedEx Logistics provides freight forwarding, as well as import and export services that allow companies to reach markets throughout the world. They help customers of all sizes solve the intricacies of shipping goods globally by providing comprehensive international ocean and air freight forwarding, surface transportation and distribution, customs brokerage, trade and customs advisory services, and advanced e-commerce and trade facilitation solutions. We're glad you stopped by and hope your job search experience with FedEx Logistics, Inc. will be rewarding. We look forward to hearing from you!