Pricing Analyst - Military veterans preferred

Job Location: Asia Pacific Country

Key Responsibilities:

Bid Management:

• Support the Gatekeeper from pre-bid to post bid on nominated Ocean Freight 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 connections with internal customers such as Commercial Owner/ Industry Sector heads (Life Sciences and Healthcare, Chemicals, Automotive, Engineering & Manufacturing, Energy, Technology, Consumer and/or Retail), and Product-Management...etc.
• Follow up on submitted RFQs with CO and Lead Gatekeeper of the bid outcome and lesson learned
• Understand the complexity of customer’s requirements such as 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 Ocean Freight Solutions

Sanity Check & Review:

• Check of internal consistency with guidance/Pricing Instructions
• Challenge pricing as necessary with CT OCC
• Support on subsequence rounds, analytic & final offers
• Validation with regional/countries as needed
• Analysis to support walk-away decision

Support Continuous Improvement Processes:

• Shorten turn-around times & improve quality
• Work with Regional Ocean Freight teams to facilitate and enable competitive and differentiating Ocean Freight pricing solutions
• Others: As needed/required by Regional Ocean Freight Product.

Stakeholder: External

• Guidance of account owners to provide relevant data and PI as basis for pricing instructions
• Proactive preparation on RFQ launch instructions and align with Commercial Owners & Lead Gatekeeper on Ocean Freight RFQ approach

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Degree holder or related subject experience
• Knowledge of Ocean Freight forwarding business and understanding of supply chain logistics will be advantage
• Minimum 3 years ocean product related experiences
• Operations experience in a complex global environment
• Strong people and communication skills
• Effective time management with problem solving and decision-making skills
• Proven ability to work independently and as a good team player
• Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Excel
• Good command of English and Mandarin with both written and spoken
• Candidate with more experience will be considered as Senior Pricing Analyst