As an Airfreight or Ocean Freight Pricing Expert you will support the execution of an improved global tender process for airfreight or ocean freight product. The AFR / OFR pricing expert manages the technical translation of customer formats, including collection of the rates from the country teams not limited to: providing value proposition; translate bid strategy, customer requirements and network fit.

Key Responsibilities: Bid Management: Support the Gatekeeper from pre-bid to post bid on nominated AFR / OFR 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 contacts with internal customers such as Commercial Owner, Industry Sector Sales (Life Sciences and Healthcare, Chemicals, Automotive, Engineering & Manufacturing, Energy, Technology, Consumer and/or Retail), Account- and Product-Management

Keep up to date with products and all relevant market information and developments

Follow up on submitted bids with Bid Managers to understand and place on record the bid outcome and lesson learned

Understand the complexity of customer’s requirements such as air and 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 Airfreight / Ocean Freight Solutions Sanity Check & Review: Check of internal consistency with guidance/Pricing Instructions

Challenge pricing as necessary with CACC/ROCC

Support on re-rounds & final offers

Validation with regional/countries as needed

Analysis to support walk-away decision

Support decision makers with final rounds Support Continuous Improvement Processes: Shorten turn-around times & improve quality

Work with Regional AFR / OFR teams to facilitate and enable competitive and differentiating AFR pricing solutions

Others: As needed/required by Regional AFR / OFR Product.

Stakeholder: External Guidance of account owners to provide relevant data and BI as basis for pricing instructions

Proactive bid preparation prior to bid launch Guidance of Commercial Owners on AFR RFQ or OFR RFQ approach Required Skills/Abilities: Graduate (Bachelor’s degree from a recognized University in any discipline).

Minimum 3 years air / ocean operations experiences.

Knowledge of Airfreight / Ocean Freight forwarding business and understanding of supply chain logistics

Operations experience in a complex global environment

Very Solid people and communication skills

Effective time management with problem solving and decision making skills

Proven ability to work independently and as a team member

Very advanced knowledge in Microsoft Excel

Advanced Project Management Skills

Very good English skills, both written and spoken

📌 Expert- OFR, HoP (Kurla)
🏢 DHL Freight
📍 Kurla