National Sea Logistics Pricing Specialist

Osaka, Osaka, Japan | Freight Transport and Customer Service | Full-time | JP2081502

You will be part of our Sea Logistics team, contributing your expertise and skills to the delivery of customer and operational excellence.

Your Role

You will focus on setting margins for pricing requests across all trades, taking various elements into consideration (market levels, industry specifics, customer requirements and price sensitivities) while trading off against procurement levels and internal policies to maintain a profitable gross yield.

You will do this by working with various internal stakeholders while focusing on the following key objectives:

• Maintain and strengthen carrier relationships on operational levels, supporting sea logistics procurement and carrier relation management.
• Execute pricing strategies by liaising on pricing and request for quotation (RFQ) preparation.
• Actively exchange information and knowledge with your team and other stakeholders to gain new, retain and further develop existing accounts.
• Provide timely responses to rate requests, finding mutual solutions for profit maximization.
• Set selling prices within given bandwidth as per local conditions and pricing policy.
• Direct the organization to book shipments based on carrier agreements or lowest price, ensuring full transparency.
• Coordinate and assist business owners for non-standard RFQ related requests.
• Maintain databases with up-to-date pricing information and drive continuous improvements through feedback.

Your Skills and Experiences

• Your strong knowledge of market and pricing strategies, along with your customer and stakeholder relationships, will be the key to your success.
• You have been selected for this role due to your knowledge across our operations, products and services; because you possess the key attributes we are looking for.

About Kuehne + Nagel

We offer competitive remuneration, extensive trainings and education for professional development, and ample opportunity to engage, collaborate and lead with a truly global network. Our employees appreciate the high degree of creative freedom, the fluid transfer of responsibility and international career exposure. Success comes with the people who make it possible, which is why we strive to take you on board for the long term.

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